Nicola Shields was born on 1 November 1985 and is a British television presenter best known as the Formula E pit lane reporter.
16 Facts About Nicki Shields
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Nicki Shields began her presenting and reporting career in 2012 and her work has included the BBC One show Escape to the Country and Supercharged on CNN International, and most recently CNNI's Saved by the Future.
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Nicki Shields was born in 1985 and was raised in Twickenham.
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Nicki Shields spent time at the family's countryside farm in Yorkshire during the holidays.
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Nicki Shields was educated at the Lady Eleanor Holles School.
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Nicki Shields was exposed to motor racing from an early age as she often watched Formula One with her father and competed in go-kart races.
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Nicki Shields studied biological sciences at the University of Bristol, specialising on environmental science.
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Nicki Shields left UBS after one year and founded Starcount, a social media data analytics device.
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Nicki Shields began presenting and reporting at technology and science shows in 2012 which included The Gadget Show Live, the International Confex and the Intel Solutions Summit.
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Nicki Shields was involved in the production of a programme about electric vehicles.
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Nicki Shields presented for Goodwood TV at the 72nd Members Meeting and Motors TV in 2014.
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In early 2014 she contacted Aurora Media and was invited for screen tests for the company's television coverage of the electric motor racing series Formula E Shields was confirmed as the series pit lane reporter in April of that year.
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Nicki Shields later said that she had to get involved upon hearing about the series from a contact at Renault as it consisted of two of her main hobbies, cars and science.
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Nicki Shields is the host of the CNN International technology and electric racing show Supercharged which first aired on 13 February 2016, and of Saved by the Future.
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Nicki Shields has written articles for The Times, London Evening Standard and CNN.
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Nicki Shields's first child, a boy, due to be born in June 2019, was born three weeks early via caesarean section in May She has another son and a daughter.