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12 Facts About Nigel Clifford

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Nigel Richard Clifford was born on June 1959 and is a British businessman and academic administrator who is the 40th Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.

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Nigel Clifford is formerly president of the Royal Geographical Society, the deputy chair of the UK's Geospatial Commission, and operating executive for Marlin Equity Partners.

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Nigel Clifford formerly held several chief executive and senior positions, mainly in technology companies.

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Nigel Clifford has been chief executive of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey and Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust.

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Nigel Clifford worked for British Telecom in a variety of roles from 1981 to 1992.

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Nigel Clifford was chief executive of Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust from 1992 to 1998.

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Nigel Clifford was chief executive of Tertio from 2000 to 2005.

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Nigel Clifford was technology director at Nokia in 2009 and chief executive of Micro Focus International from 2010 to 2011.

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Nigel Clifford was CEO of Procserve, a cloud based e-commerce network, from 2012 to 2015 until its sale to Basware.

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Nigel Clifford has held non-executive director positions at Anite, and Alliance Pharma.

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Nigel Clifford was chief executive officer of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency, from 2015 to 2018 before joining Marlin Equity Partners as Operating Executive until 2023.

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Nigel Clifford succeeded Henry Woudhuysen as the college's 40th rector in September 2024.