Nick Butler is a visiting professor at

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and the founding chairman of the Kings Policy Institute. He chairs Promus Associates, The Sure Chill Company. 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

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from 2009 to 2010.

Life

Butler was educated at Blackpool Grammar School, and graduated in economics from

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. He joined the British oil firm BP in 1977, ultimately becoming group vice president for strategy and policy development from 2002 to 2006. He is a member of the advisory board of OMFIF – the organisation of Financial Institutions and Sovereign Wealth Funds. He served as non-executive chairman of the energy technology business Agni Inc from 2008 until February 2009. He is a vice president of the Hay-on-Wye literary festival and a member and chairman of the executive committee of the Athenaeum. He contributes to the ''

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'' on energy and power and for the Nikkei Asian Review. He is married to Rosaleen Hughes and has one daughter. They live in Clapham, South London.

Publications

*''European Universities – Renaissance or Decay'' (with Richard Lambert, 2006) *''The International Grain Trade'' (1985) *''The IMF – Time for Reform'' (1982)

References

External links

Nick Butler
at Judge Business School
Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies
at Judge Business School
Nick Butler's blog
at the Financial Times {{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Nick Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Academics of King's College London People from Lincoln, England Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Chairs of the Fabian Society Treasurers of the Fabian Society