Tom Wales
Deputy Director of Analysis
Tom Wales joined Oxford Analytica in 2005. He specialises in analytical integrity and methodology, in the fallibility of expert predictions, and in long-term contingency and scenario planning. He is also the firm’s chief analyst for the United States and Canada.
Tom is co-author of The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War (Routledge, 2006) among many other publications, and holds a Ph.D. on the early history of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship from the University of Edinburgh (2005). He served as an aide to the late Air Marshal Lord Tim Garden, former Assistant Chief of the UK Defence Staff, and worked as a risk management analyst for Chase Manhattan Corporation in the City of London, where his principal work was on fund counterparties of the Bank in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
A magna cum laude graduate in history from Harvard College (1999), Dr. Wales held a University Studentship/Scholarship at Edinburgh, where he earned an MSc with distinction in history, 2002.
