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 (of which she has been a member since 2002), National Galleries of Scotland (Trustee 2002-6) and Glasgow Film Theatre (President). [1]
Bonne Vivante
Liz Cameron travels the world at Glasgow's expense. 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, she 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] It would seem that Cameron's luxury travel habits have persisted as part of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games team. As part of a lavish delegation to Melbourne led by Derek Casey, Liz cost the taxpayer £1,877.[3]
Glasgow the Brand
Capitalising on her civic pride, Cameron is remunerated for her work as Vice Chair of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau - the agency responsible for branding Glasgow (coining the term 'Glasgow: Scotland with Style') and developing its tourism strategy (see Media:Glasgow_Scotland_with_style_-_The_City_Brand_SEPTE.pdf) She is also paid for her work as Vice Chair of Glasgow Cultural Enterprises.
Non-Financial Interests
Highly networked, Liz Cameron 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)
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.'[4]
In 2006, Liz Cameron was made an officer of the Orde des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's leading cultural decorations. [5]
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)
- ↑ Paul Drury ‘First-class travel and 5-star hotels ...the true cost of winning Games’ Mail on Sunday (London) 16 March, 2008
- ↑ Register of Councillors' Interests (accessed 2 March 2008)
- ↑ BBC, Lord Provost Honoured by France, 6 July 2006.
