John Alfred Stoddard Nash, Baron Nash (born 22 March 1949) is a British former businessman, also formerly a Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools. Nash was chair of the British Venture Capital Association (1988–89) and on the board of the Conservative think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies. With his wife, Caroline Nash, he founded the charity Future, which was established Future Academies, a trust managing school academies; he is joint chairman of the governors of Pimlico Academy, one of the institutions run by Future Academies.