Nick Butler is Visiting Fellow and Chair of King’s Policy Institute.

Mr Butler was Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy Development at BP from 2002 to 2006 and previously BP’s Group Policy Adviser. From 2009 to 2010 he worked for the Prime Minister as Senior Policy Adviser at 10 Downing Street.

He was the author (jointly with Richard Lambert) of European Universities: Renaissance or Decay published by the Centre for European Reform. He has served as a member of the President’s international advisory council at Yale.

His particular interests are international energy policy including energy security, industrial policy, the future of higher education and European issues.