The following paragraphs set out the kinds of interests, financial and otherwise which Board Members have to register. These are called “Registerable Interests”.
For more information, please see the Code of Conduct for Board members of NatureScot.
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Aoife Martin
Remuneration
- Director of Operations, Seafish
- Board Member, NatureScot
Related Undertakings
- Protected Areas Committee
Directorships, Consultancy, Shares and Securities
- Non-Executive Director, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
- (non-financial position)
Margaret Davidson
Related Undertakings
- Audit and Risk Committee
Ian Gambles
Related Undertakings
- Chair, Audit and Risk Committee
Remuneration
- James Hutton Institute. A charity based in Scotland conducting scientific research in land use and the environment
- Chair of the Board of Trustees
Directorships, Consultancy, Shares and Securities
- Interim Chief Executive of the Ernest Trust – consultancy basis
Jaboury Ghazoul
Related Undertakings
- Board Member: Brainforest
- Scientific Advisory Board: Precious Forest Foundation, Protected Areas Committee, Scientific Advisory Committee
Remuneration
- Professor of Ecosystem Management, ETH Zurich
- Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh
Non-Financial Interests
Member of:
- British Ecological Society
- Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation
- Scottish Wildlife Trust
- Commonwealth Forestry Association
- Royal Scottish Forestry Society
Peter Higgins
Related Undertakings
- Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee
Remuneration
- Professor of Outdoor and Environmental Education, University of Edinburgh
Non-Financial Interests
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of a national environmental education charity - the Field Studies Council
David Johnstone
Related Undertakings
- Chair, Protected Areas Committee
Remuneration
- Partner and Owner of Annandale Estates, a family run rural property estate in south-west of Scotland just south of Moffat. This involves rural occupations, farming, forestry, renewables, residential and commercial property, tourism. This is a full-time occupation.
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The estate has a number of projects that are either in planning, or about to be lodged for planning, for which (I) believe NatureScot will be part of the planning consultee process. These are:
- A planning application for the extraction of stone at Hazel bank – planning lodged
- The extension of the Minnygap wind farm – planning not lodged
- Possible access to the Daer Windfarm through the estate – planning lodged
Contracts
- Annandale Estates has a contract with NatureScot involved in a management contract to look after and maintain Lochwood Oaks, an area of SSSi through to 2025.
House, Land and Buildings
- As noted in “contracts”; there is a management contract in place between the estate and NatureScot for the management of Lochwood Oaks, which is an SSSi until 2025.
Directorships, Consultancy, Shares and Securities
- Director of South Community Housing
Non-Financial Interests
- Member of Scottish Land and Estates, and take part in the South West regional Committee along with the Policy group, centred at headquarters in Musselburgh
- Chairman of the local Johnstone Centre & Community Development Trust
Colin MacPhail
Related Undertakings
- Audit and Risk Committee
Remuneration
- Self-employed
- C A MacPhail Consulting Ltd – Director
- 5Agri Ltd – Director
- Agri-Ignite Ltd – Director
- Safe Worksite – Director (pending)
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H & E MacPhail (Callachally Farm) – currently paid labour soon to become a partner (pending)
House, Land and Buildings
- Callachally Farm, Salen, Aros, Isle of Mull PA72 6JN
- AECS Agri environment schemes
Wayne Powell
Remuneration
- Principal/Chief Executive SRUC. Kings Buildings, West Main Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG
- Board Member, NatureScot (no remuneration)
Non-Financial Interests
- Member Scotland’s Science Advisory Council
- Convener Universities Scotland RKEC committee
Heather Reid
Related Undertakings
- Audit and Risk Committee
Remuneration
- Self-Employed - Science Education Consultant – Teacher CPD provider and conference facilitator
- Board Member – Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority
Non-Financial Interests
- Board Member/Trustee of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Countryside Trust
- Convener Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Board
Jill Robbie
Related undertakings
- Protected Areas Committee
Remuneration
- Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Non-Financial Interests
- Board Member, Association of Law, Property and Society
- Member, Land and Human Rights Advisory Forum, Scottish Land Commission
Nikki Yoxall
Related Undertakings
- Protected Areas Committee
- Audit and Risk Committee
Remuneration
- Pasture for Life - Head of Research
- Self employed consultant, education and agroecology.
- Royal Agricultural University, external examiner.
- University of Gloucestershire – PhD Stipend.
Contracts
- Highlands Rewilding - consultancy contract
Non-Financial Interests
- Member of the Land Workers’ Alliance
- Nature Friendly Farming Network, Scotland Steering Group
- Soil Association – Farmer and Grower Board member
Scientific Advisory Committee Members
Dan Haydon
Remuneration
- Professor of Population Ecology and Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow
Non-Financial Interests
- Founding Director of the Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, and currently is Director of the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine within the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Neil Metcalfe
Remuneration
- University of Glasgow – Professor (full time)
Non-Financial Interests
Membership of:
- British Trust for Ornithology
- Fisheries Society of the British Isles
- Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
- British Ecological Society
- Butterfly Conservation
- National Trust for Scotland
- Scottish Wildlife Trust
- Historic Scotland
- Garden Organic
- University & College Union
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Member of Board of Clyde River Foundation
- Member of the John Muir Trust
- Member of the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club
Ruth Mitchell
Remuneration
- Employed as group lead for the Biodiversity and Ecosystems group. A Plant and Soil Ecologist, carrying out ecological research on a variety of topics including impacts of: pollution, habitat management, land use change, climate change, habitat restoration and tree diseases on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. This work includes projects funded by NatureScot, DEFRA, JNCC, BBSRC and the Scottish Government through its strategy research programme.
Contracts
- Previous contracts from NatureScot awarded to the James Hutton Institute (JHI); although not currently in any member of staff in the group I manage have contracts with NatureScot.
Non-Financial Interests
- Committee Member of the British Ecological Society’s Scottish Policy group. A group of BES members that aims to help to make links between ecologists and policy makers. The role is entirely voluntary but the group sometimes responds to consultations by NatureScot - for example I was asked to comment on “Scoping a strategic vision for the uplands – key questions for discussion”.
- Member of Defra Trees and Woodlands Science Advisory Group
- Member of the British Ecological Society
- Member of the Scottish Wildlife Trust
- Life member of the RSPB
- Life member of the National Trust
- Life member of British Trust for Ornithology
- Member of BSBI
- Member of Prospect Trade Union
- Currently jointly supervises one NatureScot funded PhD student who is registered at Aberdeen University. Have supervised one previous NatureScot funded studentship
Jane Reid
Remuneration
- Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Professor, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway
Non-Financial Interests
- Director, Fair Isle Bird Observatory Trust
- Member, British Trust for Ornithology
- Member, National Trust for Scotland
- Member, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- Member, Scottish Ornithologists’ Club
- Member, Grampian Ringing Group
- Member, Glasgow Natural History Society
- Member, British Ecological Society
- Member, European Society for Evolutionary Biology
- Collaborator, Scottish Chough Study Group
- Collaborator, seabird research projects on Isle of May NNR
- Supervisor of NERC-funded PhD student who is CASE supported by NatureScot
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Marian Scott
Remuneration
- University of Glasgow, Professor (full time)
- JNCC, nature conservation committee, non-executive director, advisory capacity (monthly) til May 2022
- DEFRA SAC from June 1st 2022.(approx. 6 times per year)
- SCHEER, EU scientific advice committee (approx. 3 times per year)
Non-Financial Interests
- Member of the Scottish Science advisory committee
- Member of the NERC net zero digital infrastructure board
- Member of the Royal Society partnership grant committee
