Financial Services Advisory Board

The Financial Services Advisory Board is a body set up by the Scottish Executive

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]

Membership of the new Financial Services Advisory Board in 2005 was:

The Rt Hon Jack McConnell MSP, First Minister of Scotland – FiSAB Chair
Nicol Stephen MSP, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
John Campbell – Chairman, Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) and Managing Director, State Street Corporation – FiSAB Industry Deputy Chair
Graeme Dickson – Head of Enterprise & Industrial Affairs Group, Scottish Executive
Ian Ferguson – Director of Underwriting (Commercial), Norwich Union
David Fleming – National Officer, Amicus
Martin Gilbert – Chief Executive, Aberdeen Asset Management
Trevor Matthews – Chief Executive Life and Pensions UK & Europe, Standard Life
Jack Perry – Chief Executive, Scottish Enterprise
Lisa Stephenson – Director, Lloyds TSB Scotland
Ben Thomson – Chief Executive, Noble Group
Otto Thoresen – Chief Executive, Aegon UK
Margaret Wallace – Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Willie Watt – Chief Executive, Martin Currie ^[2]