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)

Shonaig Macpherson

Shonaig Macpherson

Shonaig Macpherson CBE, FRSE, DUniv practiced as an intellectual property lawyer for over 20 years. Recognised as a leader in her field, Shonaig retired from the law in September 2004 when she was a Senior Partner in McGrigors, one of the United Kingdom's top 40 law firms. Shonaig holds a variety of non-executive positions including Chairman of the National Trust for Scotland and Chairman of ITI Scotland Limited.

She was the first ever non-executive member of the Management Group and Strategy Board of The Scottish Executive, performing that role from 2001 to August 2007. In addition she is Chairman of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, a board member of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Edinburgh International Conference Centre Limited. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Shonaig is a Governor of Edinburgh College of Art and a member of the Convocation of Heriot-Watt University.