Nick was born in Zimbabwe, raised in Kenya, and has worked in Ethiopia, Botswana, Somalia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe as well as Australia. Past employers are the CSIRO, the Universities of Canberra and East Anglia (UK), the International Livestock Centre for Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Zambian National Parks and Wildlife Service, and British Voluntary Service Overseas.

Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc (hons)

The context of my work is that the rate of human adaptation to the escalating pace and consequences of climate change is too slow to avert current and impending catastophic environmental and social tipping points. Volumes of current and predicted greenhouse gas emissions are expected to make much of Australia climatically hostile to us and the ecosystems that support us. But Australia is the World's third largest exporter of fossil fuels. Successive Federal, State and the Northern territory governments have been captured by fossil fuel lobbyists, causing public policies and investments to be a compromise between the public interest our governments are elected to serve, and the business interests of the fossil fuel industry. I'm investigating how the fossil fuel companies achieved and maintain this ability to keep Australia on a pathway to catastrophe.