Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Society and Culture, Liverpool John Moores University.
Professor Nichol has a degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and a PhD from the University of York. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds fellowship status with the Royal Society of Arts, the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Chartered Management Institute. After qualifying with Coopers and Lybrand as an accountant, Professor Nichol joined the Newcastle Business School in 1992 and held various senior positions including Director of Northumbria University’s London Campus. In 1997 he was seconded temporarily to the UK Government’s Know How Fund and for two years worked as a Resident Advisor at the Ukrainian central bank in Kyiv.
Professor Nichol joined LJMU in 2015, first as Dean of the Liverpool Business School and then as Pro Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Business and Law. He is now Pro Vice Chancellor of a new Faculty of Society and Culture which brings together the humanities, art and the creative industries, education, justice studies, business and law. He holds a number of external academic and professional appointments including editorial and review responsibilities, non-executive and other board directorships and Trustee positions. This includes his role as Chair of Governors at Liverpool College Independent School Trust and as a Director of the Liverpool Commonwealth Association.
Professor Nichol’s research interests are in the areas of corporate governance, family company governance and power maintenance in multi-generation business families and family businesses.