Tim is a curious, versatile urbanist with a multidisciplinary approach to organizational and societal sustainability. He pairs social sciences and his passion for reimagining governance with a business management background and practical, yet lighthearted, management style.

Before joining Politics for Tomorrow, Tim spent 4.5 years at ICLEI World Secretariat, where he collaborated with colleagues across offices, fields, and disciplines to co-manage German-funded International Climate Initiative (IKI) projects. Originally hired to write final communications deliverables, he then transitioned to finances and administration, before his role eventually grew to encompass all aspects of project management. He was particularly involved in ICLEI’s islands work, leading a 3.5-year long community resilience-building project in the Pacific and driving multiple proposals.

Tim moved to Berlin in 2019 to pursue a M.S. in Urban Management at TU Berlin. He first visited in 2015 during a Comparative Cultures of Sustainability summer course from the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a dual B.A. in Urban Studies and B.S. in Management (Wharton). A native New Yorker, Tim’s formative work experience was across multiple vantage points of U.S. politics: a U.S. Senator’s office, the 2016 presidential campaign, a policy research lab, and a city lobbying firm. These collectively informed his urban studies research on crisis governance of essential urban services during New York’s 2017 transit ‘Summer of Hell’ and COVID school reopening processes in New York and Berlin.

As a historian and writer, Tim publishes a monthly newsletter on Substack, Connecting Climates, and volunteers as a copywriter and editor with the New York-based Effective Transit Alliance. He loves exploring Berlin to peel back layers of its infinitely interesting history onion.