After graduating with a BA(Hons) in French and Russian, Nick came to France in 2002 where he worked as an English language assistant at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, in Amiens. He came to work with IAU in 2005, where he currently holds the post of Information and Publication Officer. Nick works on updating the WHED portal, especially the information on education systems and degrees, and is the point of contact for enquiries on institutions and systems as well extraction requests; he is also the contact person for adding events to the IAU calendar of events. Nick also serves as Editorial Assistant to the Editor of the Association’s quarterly, peer-reviewed research journal, Higher Education Policy (HEP), where he is involved in the editing and proofing process. He was involved in the Working Group on ICT for Information Accessibility in Learning (ICT4IAL), which helped in setting out and trialling the Guidelines for Accessible Information, and also worked on the IAU-MCO Guidelines for an Institutional Code of Ethics in Higher Education, as well as the IAU project Innovative Approaches to Doctoral Education in Africa.