Blake Evans & Co is a UK consultancy firm promoting international trade and policy. Focused on a range of advisory services from investment, technology and governance to elite sport and health policy, the company provides tailored solutions that draw on decades of high-level multi-sector experience. Through our Partners, Advisory Board and Associates, we mobilise unrivalled relationships across banking, finance, diplomacy, industry and commerce. Blake Evans & Co develops and delivers effective strategy, access, out-reach and risk mitigation.
OUR SERVICES
INVESTMENT Emerging economies are continuing to present investors with a globally attractive combination of population growth, trading proximity and hub activity. As regional middle classes leapfrog technology to grow and consume ever more, so the opportunities for business and investment increase. Rich in natural resources, capability and ambition, emerging economies offer unrivalled growth and development as a new generation is empowered to engage the global economy. Blake Evans provides detailed market analysis and intelligence in support of overseas investments, acquisitions and startups. |
TECHNOLOGY The Fourth Industrial Revolution is creating new opportunities for digital collaboration and technology partnerships. As global governments and corporations rapidly enhance big data synthesis, artificial intelligence, robotics and 3D printing, so the need for carefully choreographed digital governance grows. International standards and regional policy must mesh to provide reliable, robust and safe user pipelines across the virtual commons. Blake Evans supports advanced technology solution companies with regulatory understanding and market access information as they expand into new regions. |
ENGAGEMENT Across an increasingly interconnected and digitally devloped world, building trusted relationships and engaging opinion formers is vital when it comes to commercial and investment opportunities. Beyond financial figures, it is key to navigate cultures, mediate perspectives and build capacity, often through education, training and communications outreach. Long term partnerships built on a deep understanding of values and cultural norms are highly rewarded in these rapidly developing markets. |
GOVERNANCE As many countries move away from outdated models of analogue government to embrace a new era of digital governance, so the interplay of rules, reputations and stakeholder relations becomes ever more important. As countries seek to build environments in which enterprise can thrive, it is critical to manage networks and partnerships alongside public policy, regulation and the law. Through a nuanced understanding of local dynamics, Blake Evans sustains long term relationships and investments. |
SPORT Elite and professional sports have increasingly complex policies, regulations and structures. Understanding how these frameworks affect all of the key players (athletes, coaches, support staff) is vital to both the health of the organisation and its people. Equipped with over a decade of experience in elite sport, Blake Evans offers bespoke services that range from simple athlete agreements to the development of programmes that support a duty of care for your people (soft skills, personal development and mental health). |
HEALTH Understanding the links between income, ancestry and health can be confusing. How are your genetics related to both education and wellbeing? How does oil price affect health? Public policy, research and health are intrinsically linked, but connecting the dots is the biggest challenge that policy makers and public figures face. Blake Evans helps you and your organisation, whether private or government, understand these links and create policies and programmes that make sense. |
COMPANY DIRECTORS
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Oliver Blake
Oliver Blake is a founding Director of Blake Evans & Co, Chairman of the UK Anglo-Omani New Generation Group and Vice Chairman of the Omani British Business Council. He has a number of Non-Executive Directorships including Crossword Cybersecurity LLC and IDU Group, a UK drone solution company disrupting the last mile of logistics. Born in Muscat, Oliver was educated in Scotland and spent his early years 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 British Army. After his military career, he moved to Muscat as the Oman Director of Operations for Charles Kendall and Partners. 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. He is passionate about bringing people together to cross borders, boundaries, countries and cultures to pursue innovation and collaboration. |
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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. |
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Emily Cameron-Blake, MSC, MPP
Emily is Director of the company’s Sport & Health practice. A specialist in both elite sport and global health policy, Emily is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh in sport policy, has a Master of Science in Molecular Anthropology from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Public Policy from Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. Over a 6 year career rowing with Team Canada, Emily won silver medals at both the World Championships and World Cup regattas. She was the peer elected athlete representative for Rowing Canada from 2012-2016; a role that heavily focused on athlete welfare and duty of care. While studying for her MPP, Emily rowed in the 2017 Boat Race earning an Oxford Blue and went on to secure a Commonwealth Gold medal in 2018. In 2017, Emily joined the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport working on both the UK Anti-Doping Tailored review (resulting in a budget uplift of £6.1million) and the 2022 Commonwealth Games Delivery Unit. While working at EY, Emily created and delivered bespoke personal development programs for elite and professional athletes and organisations including Manchester United FC, West Indies Cricket, NFL Alumni and British Rowing. Emily has worked with governments and organisations in Canada, the UK and Middle Eastern countries on sport policy and strategy focused on increasing participation of women and girls in sport, safe sport and safeguarding, and governance policies. She has recently worked with UNESCO in reviewing and delivering the Handbook on Tackling Violence against Women and Girls in Sport (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000386159). As part of the new Abuse-Free Sport program in Canada, Emily is a member of the Maltreatment in Sport Sanctions Council that governs the role of the Director of Sanctions and Outcomes, a critical role in addressing instances of maltreatment in sport in Canada. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily was brought back to her health research roots working with the Blavatnik School of Government’s Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) where she led on the creation and development of the Canadian sub-national COVID-19 policy dataset, and the creation and development of the COVID-19 vaccine policy dataset. Emily led the collaboration between the OxCGRT and the UN Development Programme on the Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity. Often acting as a spokesperson for the project, Emily has been interviewed and quoted in media outlets around the world including Al Jazeera, The Times, The Walrus, Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV, Global TV and Nature. Amongst her research responsibilities, Emily also created the bespoke e-learning course that trained the 1500+ volunteer data contributors to the OxCGRT project, ensuring consistency and quality of data in a large scale citizen science project. Selected Publications: A Panel Database of COVID-19 Vaccination Policies in 185 countries, Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker), Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 |
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