Nicolai Heering (born 1968) grew up in Denmark but now lives in England. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Modern Languages from Denmark and Hong Kong, and an M.Phil. in European Studies from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He has previously worked in tanker shipping and leaf tobacco in Europe, South America, and Asia, and as a political analyst in the Danish parliament. In 2004 he founded a U.K. corporate services business that he sold in 2018. He now owns a real estate business in England and half of a corporate services business in Singapore.