Nigel Davis
Insight Editor
ICIS

Nigel is Insight editor with ICIS news the 24-hour online chemicals news service and comments on a daily basis on the industry, on individual company strategies and the financial performance of the chemical majors. He is chemist by training, and has written about the chemical industry in many publications since 1979, including news and company magazines, encyclopaedias and specialist reports. For 13 years he wrote and edited Chemical Insight. Nigel talks regularly at industry conferences and other events and presents industry topics to the financial community. He helps European blue chip companies with their chemicals and petrochemicals training. 

Nigel is a long-standing Council member of the European Chemical Marketing and Strategy Association (ECMSA) and was for four years until November 2002 ECMSA president. Currently, he is the association’s treasurer. As president, Nigel helped ECMSA establish and develop its far-reaching Scenarios 2010 project. Scenarios 2010 has looked into the future for the chemicals industry generally and latterly focused on scenarios building for petrochemicals, specialties and R&D.
 
Nigel sat on the Markets Group of the UK Chemicals Innovation and Growth Team (CIGT) in 2002 and on the on the Futures Group of the UK Chemistry Leadership Council. The CIGT was set up by the British government in December 2001 to provide a ‘road map’ for the sector. The Chemistry Leadership Council has most recently published a vision for the sustainable production and use of chemicals.
 
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and through the RSA takes a general interest in industry and business matters.



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