Today in Europe there are more than 130 free market think tanks and other like minded groups. CNE is among the most successful and professional. How has it achieved its success and what will the future hold?

Come and meet Dr. Tim Evans, CNE's President, and hear his views on CNE, Europe's wider free market movement and the future.

Date
Wednesday 25 May 2005

Schedule
19h00: Beer and Pizza
19h30: Speaker

Location
Centre for the New Europe
23 rue du Luxembourg
1000 Brussels

The CNE Political Advisers Forum is Brussels' leading venue for "free beer, free pizza and free trade". It also provides an environment for like-minded PAs to meet and network.

Space is limited, so please notify the Events Coordinator
if you'll be coming this month!

Over the last three years Dr Tim Evans has been the President and Director General of Europe’s leading, Brussels’s based, market-oriented think tank, the Centre for the New Europe. As such, he leads one of the most successful think tanks in Europe and works closely with leading businessmen, politicians, journalists and academics from across the continent.

Between 1993 and 2002 Dr Evans was the Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association in London where he oversaw the political affairs and public relations of one of the UK’s largest sectors, the independent health and social care sector. He is widely credited as being the major driving force behind the 2000 Concordat under which NHS-funded patients accessed independent hospitals for the first time and which was described by the Financial Times as the most “historic deal in 50 years of British healthcare”. In the late 1980s, Dr. Evans was the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies and subsequently became a Senior Policy Consultant at the Adam Smith Institute – where he also oversaw external and internal communications. In 1991 he was appointed as the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister – Dr. Jan Carnogursky - and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. In 1993 he was awarded his PhD from the London School of Economics.

A political sociologist by background, he has taught at a number of academic institutions over the years including post-graduate Social Policy students at London’s Guildhall University and the Economics and Politics of the Future on the Strategic Command Course of Britain’s National Police Staff College at Bramshill. The author of numerous books, monographs and articles he has been published by the Adam Smith Institute, the Fabian Society, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Fraser Institute, the Libertarian Alliance, the Heritage Foundation, the Independent Healthcare Association and the Centre for the New Europe. A regular commentator on television and radio, his articles have also appeared in the Guardian, The Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal Europe and a host of other newspapers around the world.