Jonathan Nichols

Senior Associate Director - Nature Advisory Technical Lead @Jacobs

London, GB
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WORK HISTORY

Jan 2026 — Present

Senior Associate Director - Nature Advisory Technical Lead @Jacobs

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London, GB

I lead Jacobs\' talented and dedicated Nature Advisory team. Our work is focused on helping clients to value and manage natural assets, quantify natural capital benefits and costs, and make the business case for investing in nature-based solutions and nature recovery projects. Working with our clients\' corporate sustainability, risk, reporting and procurement teams, we help tackle business\' nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities in their direct operations and supply chains. As Technical Lead I am responsible for expanding and evolving our capability to offer the industry\'s best and unrivalled science, technology and people to tackle the biggest challenges facing our planet.

EDUCATION

2017 — 2019

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

European Master, System Dynamics

2017 — 2019

Radboud University

European Master, System Dynamics

2010 — 2013

Prifysgol Aberystwyth University

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Environmental Science

2017 — 2019

University of Bergen (UiB)

European Master, System Dynamics

SKILLS

Cost Benefit AnalysisMountain LeaderEcosystem Services AssessmentSoil ScienceEnvironmental AwarenessAgricultureEnvironmental Impact AssessmentSoil ManagementOrganic FarmingSpanishOrganic GardeningEcosystem ServicesResearchSustainable AgricultureGisAgricultural Land ClassificationContaminated LandEcosystem Services ModellingAgricultural Impact Assessment (Agia)

ABOUT JONATHAN NICHOLS

Jonathan is a Chartered Environmentalist with over 12 years’ experience helping organisations value and manage nature as a core asset. Specialising in natural capital, ecosystem services, ecological economics, and systems approaches, he works with utilities, local government, developers, investors, and national bodies to embed natural capital value into planning, investment, and design.His work is focused on making the business case for nature: quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services that underpin climate resilience, human wellbeing, and his client’s financial success. Jonathan’s work has supported investment in nature recovery projects, advanced nature‑based solutions to tackle water pollution, carbon reduction, and climate adaptation, and quantify the impacts of major infrastructure developments. He also enables infrastructure organisations to manage and report on nature‑related risks and opportunities using the TNFD framework.Jonathan contributes to natural capital policy and practice leadership as a member of ISEP’s Biodiversity and Natural Capital Steering Group and Rebuilding Nature’s Strategic Nature Network Advisory Group.BSc (Hons), MPhil, MSc, CEnv, MISEP, M. I. Soil Sci

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