Timothy Sinclair was a political scientist who wrote extensively on the politics of global finance.
He was an expert on the major American credit rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor and Fitch.
Sinclair was born in Taumarunui, New Zealand in 1963, and was educated at Taumarunui Primary School, and at St. Andrew's College and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.
In 1988 and 1989 he worked as a trainee analyst at the New Zealand Treasury in Wellington.
Timothy authored "To the Brink of Destruction: America's Rating Agencies and Financial Crisis" in 2021.