Tom
Harper

Tom Harper is an internationally-recognized advisor providing counsel to senior government officials, founders, CEOs and C-suite level clients on campaigns, reputation management, the media, politics and international relations. He is head of APCO’s European Media

Relations practice and a senior director based in London. Tom specializes in strategic and crisis communications for clients in Europe, MENA and North America, and is a senior member of the firm’s Global Solutions team.

Before entering the communications industry, Tom was a multi award-winning investigative journalist. He worked most recently as home affairs correspondent at the Sunday Times, covering the police, crime, security, intelligence, the courts, immigration, cyber, and hybrid warfare. He was investigations editor of The Independent where he covered similar areas and also conducted several investigations into corporate corruption in the City of London.

His honours included Scoop of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.  He has also been nominated as Specialist Journalist of the Year, News Reporter of the Year and Crime and Legal Affairs Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards.

Tom resigned from The Sunday Times to write a book about Scotland Yard which was published in the autumn of 2022.