Nicky was born in 1972 in Kingston uponThames and grew up in Surbiton, where she attended Surbiton High School, before studying law at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and worked as a Corporate Lawyer, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, before taking on an in-house counsel role advising on corporate law matters.
Married to husband Jonathan, an architect, since 2000; the pair were thrilled by the arrival of their son, Alex, in January 2008.