Nick Juba lives in Brighton with his wife and two children. He is CEO of City College, soon to be Brighton Met. He serves on the boards of the Fringe Festival and Coast2Capital LEP.

What is your favourite place in Sussex?

I’m going to break the rules and choose two. The first is a little wood as you head over the back of Stanmer.

It’s my favourite place to run, and I regularly see deer there if I set off early enough.

The second is New Road on the first Saturday in May when the Festival and Fringe are in full swing.

What do you love most about living in Sussex?

It’s a great place to bring up kids and mine are having a fantastic experience at their school in Brighton but also in the parks, city centre (Dave’s Comics) and countryside.

What advice do you have for your 12-year-old self?

Get your haircut!

What is your most valued possession?

My books. I used to own a bookshop so I have plenty.

What is your biggest regret?

Messing up my GCSEs

What is your biggest fear?

Something happening to my wife or my children.

What is your proudest achievement?

After marrying my wife and having our kids, it would have be the work I did at the University of the Arts London. It’s the one time I have had the freedom to do exactly what I believed and to ignore the cost, the difficulty or the doubters.

Which five people (living or dead) would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?

American writer and director Paul Auster; Andy Wharhol – the leading New York figure in the visual art movement known as pop art; former Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri; Brighton resident Nick Cave – Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor, best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; and Eddy Mundy (my best friend).