Nick’s career kicked-off as a news and sports reporter on the Gulf Daily News in Bahrain, and stints then followed over many years in Dubai, Singapore (twice), Kuala Lumpur, London, Glasgow, Hong Kong (3 times), and Beijing, before he finally settled for good in his hometown, Edinburgh. Along the way, he was an industry correspondent covering the energy and construction sectors in Southeast Asia, Business Editor of The Scotsman, a university journalism lecturer, an online business news editor in Hong Kong with South China Morning Post, and a Scottish Government spin doctor during Covid.
Languages
- English
Fun facts
- His busiest news shift was interviewing the (then) Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, then meeting Prince Philip (The Queen’s husband), and the Dalai Lama, at three different events on the same day; before filing three separate pieces of copy back in the office.
- His nearest brush with disaster was crash-landing onto the main Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway, in a hot-air balloon.
- His biggest claim to fame is still holding his school’s 100m hurdles record, set in 1978.
