Tim Bell helped found the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970.  As International Chairman, he took Saatchi & Saatchi into its position as the biggest worldwide agency network in 1981.

He successfully ran the election campaign for the Conservative Party in 1979 and again in 1983, and it was to him that Mrs Thatcher turned when the 1987 General Election seemed in doubt.  He became Deputy Chairman of The Lowe Group in 1985 and he subsequently bought out the communications division, Lowe Bell Communications in 1989.

Lord Bell is now Chairman and a major shareholder in Chime Communications Plc, the holding company listed on the London Stock Exchange, which owns Bell Pottinger Communications (formerly Lowe Bell), and its sister advertising agency HHCL.

Tim Bell is one of the best known figures in the UK communications industry and advises the chairmen and chief executives of many of Britain’s leading companies and organisations, as well as foreign heads of state and international business leaders and politicians.