- Nick Butler
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Nick Butler is Visiting Professor and Chair of the King's Policy Institute at King's College London. He is also energy policy adviser at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and a Senior Adviser to Coller Capital and to Linton Capital and to Corporate Value Associates. From 2007 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies. He was a special adviser to the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2009-2010.[1] He is a non executive Director of Cambridge Econometrics and a Trustee of Asia House. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times.
Butler graduated in economics from Cambridge University before joining British oil firm BP in 1977, ultimately becoming Group Vice-President for Strategy and Policy Development.
He is a member of the Fabian Society, and has been treasurer of the organization since 1982. He is a former chairman of the Young Fabians. He was Chairman of the Centre for European Reform which he co founded with David Miliband from 1994 to 2009, a member of the President's International Advisory Board at Yale University, and a founder member of British American successor generation project. He was a parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party, standing for Lincoln in the 1992 and 1987 general elections.
Publications: European Universities - Renaissance or Decay ( written jointly with Richard Lambert ) 2006; The International Grain Trade 1985; The IMF - Time for Reform 1982.
He is a Vice-President of the Hay-on-Wye literary festival.
Mr Butler was educated at Blackpool Grammar School and Trinity College Cambridge. He is married to Rosaleen Hughes and has one daughter, Julia.
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External links
- Nick Butler at Judge Business School
- Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies at Judge Business School
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