Nick has more than twenty-five years’ experience advising and leading on environment and climate policy in the UK, Australia and internationally.

From 1996 to 2004 Nick worked as a Senior Advisor to NSW Premier Bob Carr. In this role he advised on and supported Premier Carr’s leadership on climate and wider environment policy. During this time NSW advocated for a national State based emissions trading scheme; established one of the world’s first mandatory emissions trading schemes (the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme or ‘GGAS’); introduced sophisticated sustainability standards for residential development (‘BASIX’) and led the national debate on ratifying the Kyoto protocol through establishing the Kyoto Ratification Advisory Group.

Between 2004 and 2006 Nick worked at Downing Street advising Prime Minister Tony Blair on climate change and sustainability playing a vital role prior to the G8 leaders meeting at Gleneagles in July 2005. This was the first time that any leader made climate policy an issue to be considered by fellow heads of State. In 2005, after working closely with the Sustainable Development Commission, the UK government launched ‘Securing Our Future’ its first comprehensive sustainable development strategy. Following the G8, Nick was part of the team that advised on the establishment of the seminal Stern Review into the Economics of Climate Change.

Prior to the 2009 UNFCCC summit in Copenhagen, Nick was Strategic Director of the Copenhagen Climate Council, an affiliation of leading business chief executives, scientists and policy practitioners from China, Europe, the US and Australasia.

With his depth and breadth of public policy expertise Nick has also developed and taught the two core courses for the Master of Public Policy at the University of Sydney and – as a senior lecturer in practice at the London School of Economics and Political Science – has developed and taught graduate courses on the practice of effective climate policy.

Nick is a frequent commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on climate policy and European politics and has appeared on BBC World, CNN and Bloomberg News.