Professor Tim Connell

Tim Connell is Professor Emeritus at City St George’s, University of London, having been head of languages there for nearly twenty years. He also holds the degree of Doctor of Letters (by publication).  

He is deputy chair of the international course board of ESCP Europe, the French grande école which has centres in Paris, London, Berlin, Turin and Warsaw. 

He is a graduate of Oxford, Liverpool, City and London universities. He was also a student at the universities of Navarre and the UNAM in Mexico City. His particular languages are Spanish and French plus some Portuguese, and he has extensive experience of both Spain and Latin America. He has had three periods of sabbatical leave during his career, covering Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Chile. Tim’s wife Pilar is Peruvian and she worked for the Foreign Office in London for nearly twenty years

Tim is a Fellow of Gresham College, Chairman of the Gresham Society and editor of The Grasshopper. He is also a special adviser to the Academic Board.

He maintains close links with The Queen's College Oxford, where he is a member of the Taberdars' Society.

He attends meetings of the All Parties Parliamentary Languages Group.

Tim has a 45-year association with Canning House, including work over the years with the Education and Library Committees and the 6th Form Essay Competition. He is also the author of the History of Canning House.

Tim is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, where he was Vice-President for seventeen years and is a former chair of the Educational Trust. He is also a regular contributor to The Linguist. 

He maintains close links in the Square Mile via the Stationers’ and Newspaper Makers’ Company, where he is an emeritus member of the Court and via his work with Gresham College.