Jeremy Nicholls

Jeremy Nicholls is an accountant and an advisor with Social Value International (SVI). His work and writing focuses on how mainstream financial accounting is contributing to climate change, nature loss and inequality and on how this can be reversed. He is an honorary research fellow in accounting at the University of Liverpool, a member of A4S’s expert panel, GRI’s due process oversight committee and ICAEW’s non-financial assurance committee. Until the end of 2024 he was working with the UNDP on the SDG Impact Standards, responsible for developing a third-party assurance framework. He is also involved in ISO standard development; he chaired the committee that developed ISO37005, was involved in the first joint ISO/UNDP standard, 53001/2 on SDG Management.

He originally qualified as a chartered accountant, including time as the Finance Director for Tanzania Railways. After four years as a house parent, he became involved in social enterprise, sustainability and regeneration, and was one of the founders and then CEO of SVI.