Financial Services Advisory Board
Membership of the new Financial Services Advisory Board is:
- Jack McConnell First Minister
- Nicol Stephen Deputy First Minister
- John Campbell - State Street (Deputy Chair)
- Sandy Boyle - Amicus
- Graeme Dickson - Scottish Executive
- Ian Ferguson - Norwich Union
- Mike Jones - Lloyds TSB Scotland
- Jim McFarlane - Scottish Enterprise
- Ben Thomson - Noble Group
- Otto Thoresen - Aegon
- Martin Togneri, Scottish Development International
- David Wallace - formerly Abbey
- Margaret Wallace - Morgan Stanley
- Willie Watt - Martin Currie
- HM Treasury observer
Role
Early actions set out by the Financial Services strategy which the Advisory Board will help to oversee include:
- examining new air routes from Scotland to key financial services locations
- working with mobile phone operators and transport bodies to eliminate 'gaps' in coverage between Edinburgh and Glasgow
- examining ways of improving rail links between Edinburgh and Glasgow
- feeding in the needs of the industry to the Executive's Fresh Talent initiative
- enhancing work underway on financial education
- building better labour market knowledge
- boosting capability within the supply network[1]
Notes
Scottish Executive News Release, 24/10/2005
