Nick Moore

Nick Moore has been an Associate of EfC since the earliest days of the Company and Acumen and EfC have collaborated on many projects over the years.

He began his professional life as a public librarian and, after a varied career, is now the Managing Partner in Acumen, a research and consultancy company he established in 1983 to explore a wide range of issues concerned with the use of information in society (www.acumenuk.co.uk).  

He was appointed the first Professor of Information Management at Birmingham Polytechnic in 1987.  In 1989 he joined the Policy Studies Institute to establish a programme of research into the policy issues raised by the development of information-based societies.  In 1995-6 he was seconded to the British Council, studying the development of information societies in East Asia and advising the Council on its information strategy in that region. 

In 1998 he re-joined Acumen to continue his research and consultancy work.  He was the Professor of Information Policy at City University between 1998 and 2002 and is a Visiting Professor in Information Strategy at the University of Brighton. 

He has undertaken a wide range of research projects and over 80 consultancy assignments in Europe, East Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.  He has presented numerous conference papers all over the world and has published widely.