Nicholas brings game-changing insights to every client, company, and boardroom he works with. His trademark style combines precise research, cogent perception, responsive decision-making, and a high level of discretion. Nicholas is the co-author of the book “Economics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain” (Routledge, 2020), and has been commissioned to deliver keynote presentations and briefings to CXO audiences in well over a dozen countries. He is most often requested to speak on the evolving structures of the economy, industry-specific economic outlooks, blockchain technology, governance issues in the financial sector, trade relationships, and not-for-profits. He is a leading expert on the future of monetary policy and the economics of the fourth industrial revolution.

An experienced board director, Nicholas has held formal positions on commercial, venture capital/private equity, government, start-up, and not-for-profit boards and committees, for institutions such as Brisbane City Council, Shaper Impact Capital, the AFL Players Association, Australian Refugee and Migrant Care Services, and the Economic Society of Australia (QLD), and he has worked with many other boards as a consultant. Nicholas is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

As a trained economist, mathematician, statistician and data scientist, Nicholas is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Principal Economist at Economists Without Borders, providing economic forensics, sustainability reporting, and commissioned economic research aligned broadly with the aims of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. He also regularly lectures in undergraduate macroeconomics, monetary economics, and econometrics for hundreds of students at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. Nicholas has had previous and continuing involvement with the National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) and the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE). Driven to contribute catalysing insights and direction needed to solve some of the world’s systemic development problems, Nicholas often finds himself travelling to over 20 countries each year.

Some years ago, Nicholas previously founded Pro Bono Econos International, which during the 2010s was the world's largest network of volunteer economists.

Nicholas is a keen competitive chess player and a retired competitive swimmer, and while he now mostly participates for pleasure, he continues to draw upon the big-picture thinking, tenacity, discipline and grit which he developed during his previous years of intense training and competition.

He is a Justice of the Peace, and a member of the Royal Society of Queensland, the Australian Mathematical Society, the International Association of Hyperpolyglots, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Economic Society of Australia, the Global Shapers Community Brisbane Hub, the Society of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, and the British Blockchain and Frontier Technologies Association. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the Australian National University, a Bachelor of Mathematics from Queensland University of Technology, and a first-class honours bachelors degree in economics also from QUT, completed with a perfect GPA and a clean sweep of the academic prizes.