Commission on Scottish Devolution

An independent review of the experience of devolution in Scotland

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Commission members

Note: Although some Commission members are described in terms of offices they hold with named organisations, they serve on the Commission in a personal capacity and not on behalf of those organisations.

Chairman:

Sir Kenneth Calman

Chancellor of the University of Glasgow

Members:

Colin Boyd

Former Lord Advocate, member of the House of Lords (Labour)

Rani Dhir MBE

Executive Director, Drumchapel Housing Co-operative

Professor Sir David Edward

Retired Judge of the European Court

Murray Elder

Member of the House of Lords (Labour)

Audrey Findlay

Former Leader of Aberdeenshire Council, Convener of the Scottish Liberal Democrat Party

Jamie Lindsay

Former Scottish Office Minister, member of the House of Lords (Conservative), Chairman of the Scottish Agricultural College

John Loughton

Chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament

Murdoch MacLennan

Chief Executive, Telegraph Media Group

Shonaig Macpherson

Chair of the National Trust for Scotland and of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry

Iain McMillan

Director, CBI Scotland

James Selkirk

Former Scottish Office Minister, member of the House of Lords (Conservative)

Mona Siddiqui

Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Glasgow

Matt Smith

Scottish Secretary, UNISON

Jim Wallace

Former Deputy First Minister, member of the House of Lords (Liberal Democrat)

Jim Wallace

Jim Wallace

Jim Wallace was born and grew up in Annan, studying there before being accepted to Downing College, Cambridge, where he obtained a joint degree in Economics and Law. From there he returned to Scotland to read Law at Edinburgh.

He was elected to the UK Parliament for the seat of Orkney and Shetland in 1983, and served as MP for 18 years (1983-2001), occupying a number of front-bench posts for the Liberal Party (and from 1988 the Liberal Democrat Party) party, including Employment spokesman and Chief Whip. In 1992, he was unopposed in becoming the new leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and led the party in the Constitutional Convention of pro-reform parties in the 1990s. He led the Scottish Liberal Democrats in the first election to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999, himself winning the constituency of Orkney, and served as Deputy First Minister and Justice Minister in the first Scottish Executive. From 2003-05 he was Minister for Enterprise & Lifelong Learning. He stood down as party leader and Deputy First Minister in 2005 and as an MSP in 2007, after which he was appointed to the House of Lords.

Since September 2007, he has been an Honorary Professor in the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University.