Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon MSP

First Minister of Scotland

First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the SNP since November 2014. From 2012 to 2014 she was Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities, and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing between 2007 and 2012. She also served as Deputy First Minister throughout that period. She has served in the Scottish Parliament since 1999.

Rt Hon David Mundell MP

Secretary of State for Scotland

After being elected as MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale in 2005, he was made Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and a member of David Cameron’s Shadow Cabinet. From 2010-2015 he served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and appointed Secretary of State for Scotland in May 2015. David was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003 as a list MSP for the South of Scotland.

Robert Wood Johnson

U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Keith Brown MSP

Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work

Tim Harford

economist, journalist and broadcaster

Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less” and the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Sinead Lynch

Chair

Simone Rossi

Chief Executive

Graeme Maxton

Secretary General

Joe Andrew

Global Chair of Dentons

Dame Susan Rice DBE

President, SCDI

As the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000, Dame Susan became was appointed Chief Executive, then Chairman, of Lloyds TSB Scotland, and subsequently Managing Director of Lloyds Banking Group Scotland. She was the first woman to be appointed President of SCDI in 2012. In June 2014, she became the first Chair of Scotland's new Fiscal Commission, and is ushering it onto full statutory basis as the official, central and independent economic and fiscal forecaster for Scotland.