Nicholas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, is a British peer and maritime industry executive. Educated at Eton College and Downing College, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar in 1977. Lord Fairfax has held senior roles across the shipping and insurance sectors, including director positions at Thomas Miller P&I, Sedgwick Marine & Cargo, PL Ferrari, and Sovcomflot UK, where he also served on the Executive Management Board.
Fairfax was Director of the North of England P&I Association and currently serves on the board of Sulnox Group plc. A co-founder of the private security firms Hart Security and Hawki Worldwide, he was elected as Conservative member of the House of Lords in 2015.
He is co-editor of Artificial Intelligence – The Present and Future, due to be published by Springer Nature in 2025.