Difference between revisions of "Liz Cameron (Councillor)"
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Further, Cameron declares the following directorships: | Further, Cameron declares the following directorships: | ||
| − | Vice Chair, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (remunerated) | + | 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 | + | 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 | + | *Board member Hutcheson Grammar School |
| − | Board member RSNO Chorus Trust | + | *Board member RSNO Chorus Trust |
| − | Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow | + | *Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow |
| − | Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble | + | *Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble |
| − | Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE | + | *Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE |
| − | Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian | + | *Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian |
| − | Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons | + | *Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| − | Member of Jazz Festival Board | + | *Member of Jazz Festival Board |
| − | Member of National Youth Choir Board | + | *Member of National Youth Choir Board |
| − | Member of the Board of Westbourne Music | + | *Member of the Board of Westbourne Music |
| − | Member the Museums Association United Kingdom | + | *Member the Museums Association United Kingdom |
| − | Member: Arches Theatre Co. | + | *Member: Arches Theatre Co. |
| − | Member: City of Unesco Steering Group | + | *Member: City of Unesco Steering Group |
| − | Member: Glasgow Film Theatre | + | *Member: Glasgow Film Theatre |
| − | Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network | + | *Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network |
| − | Member: North Glasgow College Board | + | *Member: North Glasgow College Board |
| − | Member: Scottish International Piano Competition | + | *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) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
- ↑ Who's Who 2008. A&C Black, London, p. 365.
- ↑ Fiona McCade Restless Native: If they’re game arrest themFiona McCade The Sunday Times 22 January 2006 (accessed 6/2/08)
- ↑ Register of Councillors' Interests (accessed 2 march 2008)
- ↑ BBC, Lord Provost Honoured by France, 6 July 2006.
