Jeremy Nicholls is the Chief Executive of the Social Impact Analysts Association, soon to be Social Value International.

Social Value International is the coming together of the Social Impact Analysts Association and the international activities of The Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network, where Jeremy has been Chief Executive since 2008.

He started his working life as a chartered accountant in the UK. He has also lived and worked in Tanzania, Liberia and briefly Nicaragua. His work has increasingly focused on understanding and managing the value of organisation’s activities. He set up the Cat’s Pyjamas running events to promote the value of social enterprise and shortly after started working on the development of SROI. He wrote ‘There is no business like Social Business’ with Liam Black and co-wrote the UK Government supported ‘Guide to SROI’.

In addition he is a director of the FRC Group - a social business based in Liverpool - and a director of Social Evaluator, an online platform for the analysis of social returns.