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You are here Our people Tim Finch
 
Tim Finch

Tim Finch

Director of Communications

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6110
Email: t.finch@ippr.org
Twitter: @timaafinch
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Strategic communications
  • Media relations
  • Politics and the media
  • Migration
  • British politics

Tim has broadcast widely on migration issues, including on BBC Radio 4’s Today and Analysis programmes, BBC Radio 5 Live, Newsnight, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has written articles for The Times, Independent, Guardian and Observer, as well as numerous other outlets. He has spoken at conferences across the UK and around the world, including at Chatham House, the World Bank and the Metropolis conference in Copenhagen.

Before joining IPPR in 2008, Tim was Director of Communications at the Refugee Council and Chair of Refugee Week for nearly five years. Prior to that, he worked for 15 years for the BBC, latterly as a senior political journalist based at Westminster. He was previously Head of Migration at IPPR.

Tim is a trustee of Asylum Aid, the Zimbabwe Association and the Ramphal Centre, and sits on the Housing and Migration Network. He has a BSc(Hons) in Government from the London School of Economics and an MA in British Politics from the University of Essex.

 

Publications

No Easy Options: Irregular immigration in the UK

Author(s) : Tim Finch, Myriam Cherti

20 Apr 2011

Immigration under Labour

23 Nov 2010

Global Brit: Making the most of the British diaspora

Author(s) : Tim Finch

30 Jun 2010

A Future For Politics: Ways to reform our political system

03 Nov 2009

Shall We Stay or Shall We Go? Re-migration trends among Britain’s immigrants

Author(s) : Maria Latorre, Tim Finch, Naomi Pollard, Jill Rutter

05 Aug 2009

 

Articles

Is Labour preparing to compromise over Leveson? - 04 Feb 2013

Author(s) : Tim Finch

If John Lewis is so great, why aren’t there more businesses like it? - 17 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Tim Finch

We need to avoid another ‘lost generation’ - 16 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Euro meltdown may be 10 days – or 10 minutes – away and Germany must act now - 18 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Reasons to be cheerful: 10 things to celebrate during refugee week - 22 Jun 2011

Author(s) : Tim Finch

What of our long-resident irregular immigrants? - 21 Apr 2011

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Global mobility: an inescapable reality - 06 Mar 2011

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Immigration: Tough stuff will certainly not be enough - 23 Nov 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Immigration: Tories find that 'simple' solutions are not always possible - 05 Nov 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Migration: wrong policy, right outcome - 13 Aug 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Immigration must be a bigger part of the reform agenda - 02 Aug 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Having a better immigration system also means returning immigrants - 28 Jul 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Brits abroad: How national pride can help us achieve progressive international goals - 08 Jul 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Is the progressive case for migration truly progressive? - 26 Apr 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Labour must be positive on immigration (and honest about the costs) - 25 Feb 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Let's take immigration seriously - 06 Jan 2010

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Why so defensive on migration, Brown? - 12 Nov 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Numbers game of population figures is not that simple - 23 Oct 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Migrant Exodus: The impact on the UK - 01 Sep 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

A Progressive Conservative Policy on Migration - 29 Aug 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Immigration is falling because of the economy - 28 Aug 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Government fighting yesterday's migration battles - 27 Aug 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Tougher immigration controls are having a negative impact on the high skilled migrants our economy needs - 14 Jul 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

‘Local homes for local people’ is meaningless - 08 Jul 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Extreme Defence - 07 Jul 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

EU migration is working - 08 May 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

Strangers into Citizens - 27 Apr 2009

Author(s) : Tim Finch

 

Projects

Next generation media policy

Making the most of the British diaspora: How UK government should respond to British citizens who live abroad