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)

Murray Elder

Murray Elder

Murray Elder has been a member of the House of Lords since July 1999. He was educated at Kirkcaldy High School and Edinburgh University.

He was a Member of the Lords Select Committee looking at the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from 2000 to 2002 and a Member of the Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs from 2002 to 2005. He was previously a special adviser at the Scottish Office (1997-99), Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Labour Party, John Smith (1992-94), General Secretary of the Labour Party in Scotland (1988-92) and a Labour member of the Executive of the Scottish Constitutional Convention (1989-1992).