Nigel Higgins
Nigel Higgins
Nigel Higgins is Chairman of Barclays plc. Prior to this nomination, he was Deputy Chairman of Rothschild & Co, having been Chairman of the Executive Committee and Managing Partner of Rothschild & Co, from 2010 to 2019. He was also Co-Head of Rothschild Global Advisory, which he ran since the early 2000s. He has worked at Rothschild since graduating from Oxford University in 1982. Nigel has had a broad range of UK and international corporate clients whom he has advised on a variety of strategic, M&A and capital raising matters as well as advising on many privatisations for the Governments of the UK, the Netherlands and Denmark. He was a member of the Advisory Board for the Commercial Directorate of the UK’s National Health Service from 2002-2007 and the Governor of two London day schools. He is Chairman of Sadler’s Wells, the world’s No. 1 venue dedicated to international dance, and a non-executive director of Tetra Laval Group, a major global group focused on technologies for the efficient production, packaging and distribution of food.
