Nick Mabey

Nick Mabey is Chief Executive and a founder director of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) a non-profit organisation based in London and Berlin dedicated to accelerating the transition to sustainable development. In addition to his organisational responsibilities, Nick leads E3Gs work on Europes external role, climate change and security, and change and decision making tools.

Until December 2005 he was a senior advisor in the UK Prime Ministers Strategy Unit leading work on national and international policy areas, including: energy, fisheries, countries at risk of instability and organised crime. Nick was previously employed in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Offices Environment Policy Department, and was the FCO lead for the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 where he established international partnerships on clean energy (www.REEEP.org), tourism (www.tourismfoundation.org) and environmental democracy (www.pp10.org).

Before he joined government Nick was Head of Economics and Development at WWF-UK. He came to WWF from research at London Business School on the economics of climate change, published in the book Argument in the Greenhouse. This followed a period in the UK electricity industry working as a negotiator for PowerGen and an engineer for GEC-Alsthom. Nick trained as a mechanical engineer at Bristol University and holds a masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT where he specialised in energy systems analysis.