Nigel Richard Clifford (born June 1959) is the President of the Royal Geographical Society, the Deputy Chair of the UK's

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, and Operating Executive for Marlin Equity Partners. 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 Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was a ...

and

Glasgow Royal Infirmary The Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) is a large teaching hospital. With a capacity of around 1,000 beds, the hospital campus covers an area of around , and straddles the Townhead and Dennistoun districts on the north-eastern fringe of the city cen ...

NHS Trust.

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 The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

Career

He worked for British Telecom in a variety of roles from 1981 to 1992. He was chief executive of

NHS Trust from 1992 to 1998. From 1998 to 2000 he was service delivery director at

Cable & Wireless plc Cable & Wireless plc was a British telecommunications company. In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications). The company later off ...

. He was chief executive of Tertio from 2000 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008 he was chief executive of Symbian Ltd. (a joint venture of handset vendors) which was eventually sold and integrated into

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in 2008. He was technology director at Nokia from 2008 to 2010 and chief executive of

Micro Focus International Micro Focus International plc is a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provides software and consultancy. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is ...

from 2010 to 2011. He was CEO of Procserve, a cloud based e-commerce network, from 2012 to 2015. He has held non-executive director positions at

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, and Alliance Pharma. He was chief executive officer of Ordnance Survey, a British government-owned mapping business, from June 2015 for three years. He is currently President of the Royal Geographical Society.

Personal life

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

References

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