​Oliver Blake

Oliver Blake is a founding Director of Blake Evans & Co, Chairman of the Anglo-Omani New Generation Group and he sits on the Al Jil al Jadid Board.  Born in Muscat, Oliver was educated in Scotland and spent much of his youth growing up in the Middle East. He read Politics at Newcastle University and went on to commission from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into the Light Dragoons.  On leaving the Army, he joined Charles Kendall and Partners where he was the Oman Director of Operations.  In 2017, he graduated with a Master of Public Policy from Oxford University, a unique course that gathered 120 policy practitioners from across 70 different countries.  

Professor Tim Evans

Professor Tim Evans is a founding Director with Blake Evans & Co and Professor of Business and Political Economy at Middlesex University London. One of the UK’s ‘Top 100 most influential economists and financial experts’, he is also a Senior Fellow with the Adam Smith Institute and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. Over the years, he has consulted with the global corporate affairs leaderships of many of the world’s largest companies including Pfizer, ExxonMobil, Microsoft and Merck Sharp and Dohme. A former President and Director General of the Centre for the New Europe in Brussels (2002-2005), between 1993 and 2002, he was the Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association in London. In 1991, he was the Head of the Slovak Prime Minister’s Policy Unit where he also served as the Chief Economic and Political adviser to Prime Minister Dr. Jan Carnogursky. Prior to that, in the late 1980s, he had been the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies. Tim has an M.Sc and PhD from the London School of Economics and was awarded an MBA in 2011.