Nigel Richard Clifford
BornJune 1959 (age 64)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Strathclyde
Downing College, Cambridge
OccupationBusinessman
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]

Early life

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]

Career

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]

Professional memberships

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

Personal life

He is married and has three adult children.[5] His personal interests include fell-walking, running, and kayaking.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Nigel Clifford". Gov.UK. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Team". Marlin Equity Partners. Marlin Management Company. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  3. ^ https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/nigel-clifford-elected-as-lincolns-40th-rector
  4. ^ "Nigel Clifford, Non-Executive Director". Alliance Pharma. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Lea, Robert (19 August 2017). The Times. p. 57. When you are head of this business, it pays to know where you are going ((cite news)): Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "A remote meeting of minds". HeraldScotland.com. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Nokia in full buy-out of Symbian". BBC News: Business. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Regulatory News". Alliancepharma.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  9. ^ "Business Minister Matthew Hancock Announces the Appointment of Nigel Clifford as the New Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey". Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Royal Geographical Society - Meet our new President, Nigel Clifford".
  11. ^ "Nigel Clifford". rgs.org. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Why apps won't be ousting maps any time soon as Ordnance Survey chief charts a digital future". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
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