Nigel joined the company in 1998 as a member of the central legal team before transferring to EMEA in 2001 where he became Senior Vice President & General Counsel in 2003.
In 2011 on the creation of AMEA he became Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Europe & AMEA and he also now leads the Greater China Legal team. Nigel is an English qualified solicitor and before joining IHG he worked for six years at London law firm Frere Cholmeley Bischoff.
He has a BA honours degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University and lives in Surrey with his wife and two children.