Liz Cameron (Councillor)
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)
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
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)
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.
