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Further, Cameron declares the following directorships:
 
Further, Cameron declares the following directorships:
  
Vice Chair, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (remunerated)
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Vice Chair, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (remunerated) - see [[Media:Example.ogg]]
  
 
Vice Chair, Glasgow Cultural Enterprises (remunerated)
 
Vice Chair, Glasgow Cultural Enterprises (remunerated)
  
Chair, Culture and Sport, Glasgow (unremeunerated)
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Chair, [[Culture and Sport Glasgow]] (unremeunerated)
  
  
 
She also declares the following non-financial interests:
 
She also declares the following non-financial interests:
  
Board member Hutcheson Grammar School
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*Board member Hutcheson Grammar School
  
Board member RSNO Chorus Trust
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*Board member RSNO Chorus Trust
  
Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow
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*Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow
  
Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble
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*Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble
  
Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE
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*Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE
  
Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian
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*Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian
  
Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
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*Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
  
Member of Jazz Festival Board
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*Member of Jazz Festival Board
  
Member of National Youth Choir Board
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*Member of National Youth Choir Board
  
Member of the Board of Westbourne Music
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*Member of the Board of Westbourne Music
  
Member the Museums Association United Kingdom
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*Member the Museums Association United Kingdom
  
Member: Arches Theatre Co.
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*Member: Arches Theatre Co.
  
Member: City of Unesco Steering Group
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*Member: City of Unesco Steering Group
  
Member: Glasgow Film Theatre
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*Member: Glasgow Film Theatre
  
Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network
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*Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network
  
Member: North Glasgow College Board
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*Member: North Glasgow College Board
  
Member: Scottish International Piano Competition
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*Member: Scottish International Piano Competition
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*Member: Si Tous Les Ports du Monde
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*Patron of the Glasgow Celtic Society (for the promotion of Gaelic language and Culture)
  
Member: Si Tous Les Ports du Monde
 
  
 
NB Son-in-law David Collman is Chair of Board in the Botanics - Possible links with GCC/CSG
 
NB Son-in-law David Collman is Chair of Board in the Botanics - Possible links with GCC/CSG
Patron of the Glasgow Celtic Society (for the promotion of Gaelic language and Culture)
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Revision as of 16:17, 4 April 2008

A Member of Glasgow City Council since 1992, Councillor for Garscadden/Scotstounhill, Bailie Elizabeth Cameron is a member of the Scottish Labour Party. She has acted as Deputy Convener of the Women's Committee (1993-95), Arts and Culture (1995-98) and Convener of Culture and Leisure Services (1998-2003). Chair of the Board of Culture and Sport Glasgow, she is in a position to infleunce a wide range of cultural organisations including Scottish Arts Council (Member since 2002), National Galleries of Scotland (Trustee 2002-6) and Glasgow Film Theatre (President). [1]


From 2003 to 2007, she was Lord Provost and Lord-Lieutenant of Glasgow. According to an article in the Sunday Times in Scotland, while Lord Provost of Glasgow, the politician Baillie Liz Cameron racked up 'travel expenses of £60,000, 11 times the amount spent by her counterpart in Edinburgh, Lesley Hinds. ... The lord provost’s travels included an indispensable trip to New York for its Tartan Day celebrations, at a cost of £17,000. A visit to Sri Lanka after the tsunami racked up another £12,000, though ironically its purpose was to see how relief money raised in Glasgow was being spent.' [2]


On the Register of Councillors' Interests, she declares 'my husband, Duncan F. Cameron, is a Partner of a firm of Educational Consultants, C.M. Associates. It is not without the bounds of possibility that he will, through his company, tender for work that may be local government related.'[3]


Further, Cameron declares the following directorships:

Vice Chair, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (remunerated) - see Media:Example.ogg

Vice Chair, Glasgow Cultural Enterprises (remunerated)

Chair, Culture and Sport Glasgow (unremeunerated)


She also declares the following non-financial interests:

  • Board member Hutcheson Grammar School
  • Board member RSNO Chorus Trust
  • Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow
  • Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble
  • Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE
  • Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian
  • Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Member of Jazz Festival Board
  • Member of National Youth Choir Board
  • Member of the Board of Westbourne Music
  • Member the Museums Association United Kingdom
  • Member: Arches Theatre Co.
  • Member: City of Unesco Steering Group
  • Member: Glasgow Film Theatre
  • Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network
  • Member: North Glasgow College Board
  • Member: Scottish International Piano Competition
  • Member: Si Tous Les Ports du Monde
  • Patron of the Glasgow Celtic Society (for the promotion of Gaelic language and Culture)


NB Son-in-law David Collman is Chair of Board in the Botanics - Possible links with GCC/CSG



In 2006, Liz Cameron was made an officer of the Orde des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's leading cultural decorations. [4]

Notes

  1. Who's Who 2008. A&C Black, London, p. 365.
  2. Fiona McCade Restless Native: If they’re game arrest themFiona McCade The Sunday Times 22 January 2006 (accessed 6/2/08)
  3. Register of Councillors' Interests (accessed 2 march 2008)
  4. BBC, Lord Provost Honoured by France, 6 July 2006.