Nigel Richard Clifford (born June 1959) is a British businessman and academic administrator who is the 40th Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
[1] He is formerly president of the Royal Geographical Society, the deputy chair of the UK's Geospatial Commission, and operating executive for Marlin Equity Partners.
He has also been chief executive of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey and Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust.
He attended Portsmouth Grammar School before obtaining a degree from Downing College, Cambridge in Geography and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde.
[5] From 2005 to 2008 he was chief executive of Symbian Ltd.[5] (a joint venture of handset vendors) which was eventually sold and integrated into Nokia in 2008.