Council of Economic Advisers: Chair's report 2016-2018

Annex A: Membership of the Council

Crawford Beveridge (Chair) – Chair of Autodesk Board of Directors, and a technology industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience, including as an Executive at Sun Microsystems for over 15 years. In 1991, Beveridge left Sun to become Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise. Beveridge returned to Sun in April 2000 as Executive Vice President of People and Places and Chief Human Resources Officer. Beveridge was also Chairman of Scottish Equity Partners Ltd, and a Non-executive board member of eSilicon and iomart Group PLC. He was awarded a C.B.E. in the Queen' New Years Honours list in 1995.

Professor Sir Harry Burns ‒ Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde and former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland. Sir Harry holds a leadership position within the International Prevention Research Institute. He was previously appointed as Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow and was also Greater Glasgow's Public Health Director. Sir Harry has been a key figure in tackling Scotland's health inequalities. He was knighted in 2011.

Professor Sara Carter ‒ Associate Principal of the University of Strathclyde and Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. Professor Sara Carter is a member of the UK Enterprise Research Centre, the Scottish Government's Women's Enterprise Framework Action Group and Non-Executive Director of Women's Enterprise Scotland. She co-chaired the British Bankers' Association Diversity & Inclusion Business Council, served on the UK Government's Women's Enterprise Task Force and received an OBE for her services to women entrepreneurs.

Professor Mariana Mazzucato ‒ Director Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London, and the Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value. Professor Mazzucato previously held the RM Philips Professor in the Economics of Innovation, SPRU, University of Sussex. Professor Mazzucato advises the UK government and the European Commission on innovation-led growth and she is currently a member of the Global Agenda Council on the Economics of Innovation for the World Economic Forum. Her research focuses on the relationship between financial markets, innovation and economic growth.

Jim McColl - Chairman and Chief Executive of Clyde Blowers - a company transformed under his leadership into a portfolio of global engineering companies. He also served as Chairman of the Welfare to Work Forum that has seen 30,000 Scots enter employment.

Amanda McMillan – Formally Managing Director at Glasgow Airport and Chief Executive of AGS Airports Limited. Amanda McMillan is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has spent time in manufacturing, professional practice and lecturing. In addition to being a Non-Executive Director of Business Stream, she currently serves as a member on the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, ICAS Council, and the Adam Smith Business School Strategic Advisory Board, University of Glasgow.

Professor Sir James Mirrlees - Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and distinguished professor-at-large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1996 Sir James was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on economic models and equations about situations where information is asymmetrical or incomplete. In 2010, he led the Mirrlees Review of taxation which examined the principles and characteristics of a good tax system for open developed economies in the 21st century.

Professor Anton Muscatelli - Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Glasgow since 2009. Former Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. Professor Muscatelli has been a consultant to the World Bank and the European Commission, and chaired an independent expert group for the future financing of devolution for the Calman Commission.

Professor Frances Ruane - Honorary Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin and former Director of Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute. She is currently a Member of the European Statistical Advisory Committee and the Economic Advisory Group in Northern Ireland. She is widely published in the area of international economics and industrial development.

Professor Joseph Stiglitz - Professor Stiglitz is Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and was a member of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, serving as CEA Chair from 1995-97. He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as Chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System.