Nick Butler is Visiting Professor and founding Chair of the King’s Policy Institute at King’s College London.  He is a founding partner with Stan Greenberg of Climate Policy and Strategy – a research working on the evolution of energy and climate policy in different countries around the world.

Butler joined BP plc after securing a degree in Economics from Trinity College Cambridge and held a number of roles within the company. From 2002 to 2007 he served as Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy Development.  Subsequently he headed the Centre for Energy Studies at the Judge Business School in Cambridge and in 2009/10 served as Senior Policy Adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

From 2012 to 2020 he wrote the weekly blog on Energy and Power for the Financial Times and continues to write for the paper and other publications including the Nikkei Economic Review in Asia and the ONS Energy Agenda in Norway.

He chairs Ridgeway Information – an open source data assessment business and Sure Chill, a company specializing in off grid refrigeration.

In the 1980s he was a co-founder of the British American Project for the Successor Generation and in the 1990s with David Miliband created the Centre for European Reform.

He is currently Vice President of the Hay on Wye Literary Festival.