Nicola Gordon

Nicola, a chartered engineer, has welcomed the opportunity to contribute to Scotland’s future as a member of the board of SEPA. She holds a number of non-executive roles in the public, private and voluntary sectors. She has been Lay Chairing Member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland since 2017 and is also Chair of the Strategy Advisory Board at Heriot-Watt University’s Institute of Petroleum Engineering. She serves on the boards of Arts & Business Scotland, Edinburgh Printmakers and the Scottish Oil Club.

Formerly, she spent many years with Shell in the international oil and gas industry. As a senior leader, she developed and implemented strategy, partnered with government in Denmark and Norway and led business improvement programmes. She led teams running the UK’s Brent field and also Norway’s Ormen Lange development which still supplies 20% of UK gas demand. She was the first woman in Scotland to be awarded a degree in Petroleum Engineering.