Nicola Hicks is a director in our UK Extended Enterprise team and has over eleven years’ experience advising our clients how to manage their third party risk. Nicola leads our business partner assurance proposition, where we support our clients to assess the compliance of a range of third parties (including suppliers, outsourcers, distributors, licensees, joint venture partners and marketing agencies) with their contractual obligations across a range of risk domains, from financial and anti-bribery to cyber security. Nicola oversees the delivery of contract compliance programmes for clients across industries, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical and oil and gas. Nicola also has experience advising clients on the design and implementation of third party risk management and governance frameworks. She is a qualified accountant (ACA) and has extensive experience working across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Russia.