Brian Lang (Deputy Chairman of the NHMF and HLF, Chairman of the Committee for Scotland)
Brian Lang was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews in January 2001.

Dr Lang was born in 1945 in Edinburgh and educated at the Royal High School and Edinburgh University, where he studied social anthropology. Following a period in Kenya studying and living among the Kamba people, he lectured in social anthropology for some years at Aarhus University, Denmark.  Returning to Britain, Dr Lang joined the scientific staff of the Social Science Research Council.  In 1979 and 1980 he was head of the Historic Buildings Branch of the Scottish Development Department, and for the following seven years was Director of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, based in London.  After four years as Director of Public Affairs for the National Trust, he was appointed Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman of the British Library.  He oversaw the successful move, after years of controversy, of the British Library into its very large new building at St Pancras, while simultaneously introducing new strategies designed to bring the library fully into the digital information world.  In 2000, Dr Lang was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Institute, Los Angeles.  Dr Lang is a Board member of Scottish Enterprise Fife. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Patrick Cadell

Mr Patrick Cadell, now retired, was Keeper of the Records of Scotland from 1990 to 2000. Before that he was Keeper of Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland. He is involved with a number of organisations concerned with the history of Scotland – notably the Scottish Records Society and the Scottish Local History Forum of which he is past Chairman. He also chaired the Significance Panel of the Scottish Museum Council’s recent survey of the museums of Scotland.

Mr Cadell was born and brought up in Linlithgow and now lives in Edinburgh.

Catherine Home Robertson

Catherine Home Robertson has eight years experience as an elected local councillor. She was the Depute Civic Head of the Scottish Borders Council and she took a special interest in planning and heritage matters in addition to her particular responsibilities for social work.

She lives in Berwickshire, where she helped her husband to establish the Paxton Trust to preserve and develop Paxton House as a public heritage asset. She serves on that Trust’s curatorial and grounds & gardens panels.

Catherine grew up on a tenanted farm in Angus and she worked as a farm secretary in various parts of Scotland. She is a working partner in the family farming business in Berwickshire, where she has promoted conservation initiatives and the creation of new public footpaths.

Bridget McConnell

Chief Executive, Culture and Sport Glasgow since April 2007, formerly Executive Director (Culture and Sport) Glasgow City Council  from  August 2005  - March 2007 and Director of Cultural and Leisure Services, Glasgow City Council since August 1998 to August 2005. Bridget was formally with Fife Council as Community Services Manager (1996-1998), Fife Regional Council as Principal Arts Officer (1988-1996), Stirling District Council as the first Local Authority/Scottish Arts Council funded Arts Development Officer (1984–1988) and before that Curator of the Doorstep Gallery, Fife’s first travelling Art Gallery (1983-1984).   Bridget has a wide interest in the policy, practice and management of the Cultural Services Sector, having been a junior music student at the RSAMD (1973-1976), gaining an M.A. (Honours) in Fine Arts from St Andrews University (1982), a Management Diploma from Dundee College of Commerce (1983), a M.Ed. from Stirling University and currently completing the Doctor of Education programme at Stirling University. 

A founder member and previous Chairperson of both the Scottish Local Authority Arts Officers’ Association (1993-1996, Founder Member 1991), the Scottish Youth Dance Festival (1993-1996, Founder Member1988), Chair of VOCAL (Voice of Chief Officers of Culture, Community and Services in Scotland (2002-2004).

Bridget was also formerly Vice –Chair of the Scottish Arts Lobby (1995-1997, Executive Board Member since 1993), an External Verifier for SQA Arts and Leisure Management Courses (1990-1998), a member of the Scottish Arts Council Combined Arts Committee (1988-1994), Adviser to the Scottish Arts Council Performing Arts Department (1995-1998), Executive Member of SADLS (Scottish Association of Directors of Leisure in Scotland) from 1998 to 2002, Link Arts Adviser to COSLA (1997-2001), Founder Member of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland, a member of the Focus Group set up to develop a National Cultural Strategy for Scotland in 2000, Joint Chair of the COSLA/VOCAL Culture Strategy Task Group (2005).

In 1987 she was awarded the first British American Arts Association/University of Minnesota Fellowship and in 1999 was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  Bridget is also currently a member of the Board of RSAMD (since 1999), member of the Sunday Herald Advisory Board (since 1999) and the Heritage Lottery Fund Committee for Scotland since September 2004. She has written and presented a number of papers on Arts, Education and Leisure policy and practice, including ‘Arts and Adult Education if Fife’, published by the Free University of Brussels in ‘Truth Without Facts’ (1995) and ‘Modernising Britain: Creative Futures’ with Chris Smith, M.P., Trevor Philips and Jude Kelly, Edited by Michael Jacobs and Published by The Fabian Society (1997) and co-edited “One World, Many Cultures”, papers from the Fourth International Conference on adult Education and the Arts (1996).

Bridget is married and has two adult children.

Charles McKean

Professor of Scottish Architectural History, Department of History, University of Dundee.

Between 1968 and 1979 Charles McKean worked at the Royal Institute of British Architects, responsible for the environment, the Greater London Development Plan opposition, community architecture and industrial regeneration. Spare time Architectural Correspondent; The Times 1977 to 1983.  Between 1979 and 1994, he was Secretary and Treasurer, and Chief Executive, the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Since 1995, he has been at the University of Dundee, now Professor of Scottish Architectural History.  He was Chairman of the NTS Buildings Committee between 1995 and 2003, and a member of its Executive and Council. His books include Fight Blight (1977), The Scottish Thirties (1987), Edinburgh * Portrait of a City (1992), The Making of the Museum of Scotland (2000), The Scottish Chateau (2001) and Battle for the North (2006).

Duncan Rice

Professor C Duncan Rice has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen since September 1996.  He was previously Dean of the Faculty (1985-91), and Vice-Chancellor (1991-96) at New York University.

Professor Rice was born in Aberdeen, and took a first in history at the University of Aberdeen in 1964.  He taught briefly at Aberdeen and completed an Edinburgh doctorate before spending much of his professional life at Yale and New York University.

Professor Rice has published widely as a professional historian.  He is the recipient of many academic awards and honours, including fellowships at Harvard and Yale, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.  He retired from the Scottish Opera/Scottish Ballet Board at the end of 2004, and as Vice-Chairman of Scottish Enterprise Grampian at the end of 2006.  He was Chairman of the Circumpolar Universities Association from 1997-1999, and Chairman of the UK Socrates-Erasmus Trust. He is Chairman of the Board of CASE Europe.

Professor Rice is married to Susan Rice, the Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland. They have three children and live in Old Aberdeen. His interests include hill walking, studio ceramics, contemporary Scottish literature and opera.

Sheena Wurthmann

Sheena Wurthmann was a senior lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University (1971 – 2004), teaching in the School of the Built and Natural Environment.  She was a Fulbright Exchange Professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1984 – 85).

She was a member of West Areas Board and Scientific Advisory Committee of Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Biodiversity Committee (chair of the Interpretation, Communication and Education sub-committee).  Currently she is a member of the South West Region Board of Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Conservation Committee of the Scottish Wildlife Trust. 

Dr. Wurthmann is particularly interested in biodiversity, landscape and habitat quality and the natural heritage particularly of Scotland.  She enjoys sharing these interests through environmental education.

Sheena Wurthmann was born in Glasgow, studied ecology at the University of Edinburgh and gained her doctorate from the University of Lancaster. Her research interests are the ecology of urban environments and environmental quality.

Married to William Wurthmann (historian) she lives in Glasgow. Interests include travel, quilting, field ecology and reading.