Assistant Secretary for Communications and External Affairs Tim Crowley
Tim Crowley is the Assistant Secretary for Communications and External Affairs and supervises the public affairs division. As assistant secretary, he is responsible for managing communications in the state’s leading economic development agency, including project announcements and media inquiries.
In prior roles, Crowley served as deputy communications director for Gov. Bev Perdue during her first 1½ years in office, as press secretary during Perdue’s successful gubernatorial campaign, and as communications director during Perdue’s final two years as lieutenant governor. Before that, Crowley was an award-winning, 15-year broadcast veteran, including stints as UNC-TV’s host of Legislative Week in Review, statehouse reporter for North Carolina Public Radio Association, and news director of an NPR affiliate and commercial radio station in Illinois.
Crowley holds a B.A. in Communications from Western Illinois University and a master’s degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield. He lives in Durham with his wife Kim and sons Carson and Eli.