Nicola is a public sector consultant with a wide range of skills and experience and particular expertise in financial and educational issues. Her career to date has included experience as a banker, a venture capital lender, a value for money specialist with the National Audit Office and a public sector consultant with Deloitte and Touche and KPMG. Her work has been the subject of public consultation and legislative change and she is- completing her second term as finance adviser to the Scottish Parliament Education Committee. She is also on the audit committee of Sheffield Hallam University.