Nicholas Cheffings

Nicholas Cheffings currently serves as a Special Advisor in the Office of the Chief Executive and has held various interim roles, including Company Secretary and Head of Legal at The Crown Estate since June 2021. Cheffings is a member and past Chair of the Parallel Club at the British Paralympic Association and a Council Member and Chair of Audit & Risk at the University of Exeter. Additionally, Cheffings has been a Trustee and past Chair for Making The Leap, a charity that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as a Trustee for the CareTech Charitable Foundation. From January 1999 until December 2022, Cheffings was a Partner at Hogan Lovells, serving as Global Chair from May 2012 to April 2018, and later as Senior Counsel to promote diversity and inclusion. Cheffings was also the Executive Chair of PRIME Commitment, a social mobility charity in the legal profession, and held the position of Director at the International Senior Lawyers Project until August 2021. Cheffings earned an LLB (Hons) from the University of Leicester between 1977 and 1980.