Nigel Richard Clifford | |
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Born | 1959 (age 63–64) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Strathclyde Downing College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Businessman |
Employer(s) | British Telecom Glasgow Royal Infirmary Symbian Ltd. Micro Focus International Procserve Marlin Equity Partners Cable & Wireless plc Tertio Geospatial Commission Royal Geographical Society |
Nigel Richard Clifford (born June 1959) is a British executive and geographer. He is the current president of the Royal Geographical Society, the deputy chair of the UK's Geospatial Commission, and operating executive for Marlin Equity Partners. [1] [2]
In July 2023, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, announced that he had been elected by the college's Governing Body as Lincoln's 40th Rector, succeeding Henry Woudhuysen in September 2024. [3]
He formerly held several chief executive and senior positions, mainly in technology companies. He has also been chief executive of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey and Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust. [4]
Nigel Clifford was born in June 1959. He has a degree from Downing College, Cambridge in Geography and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde. [5]
He worked for British Telecom in a variety of roles from 1981 to 1992. He was chief executive of Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust from 1992 to 1998. [5] [6] From 1998 to 2000 he was service delivery director at Cable & Wireless plc. He was chief executive of Tertio from 2000 to 2005. [5]
From 2005 to 2008 he was chief executive of Symbian Ltd. [5] (a joint venture of handset vendors) which was eventually sold and integrated into Nokia in 2008. [7] He was technology director at Nokia in 2009 and chief executive of Micro Focus International from 2010 to 2011. [5] He was CEO of Procserve, a cloud based e-commerce network, from 2012 to 2015. [5]
He has held non-executive director positions at Anite, and Alliance Pharma. [8]
He was chief executive officer of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency, from June 2015 for three years. [9]
He is currently President of the Royal Geographical Society. [10]
CGeog – Chartered Geographer, Royal Geographical Society [11]
FRICS – Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
FRGS - Fellow of Royal Geographical Society
FRSA - Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts
FCMI - Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
He is married and has three adult children. [5] His personal interests include fell-walking, running, and kayaking. [12]
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