Board of Governors Updated March 2018 (Includes all Governors, together with the Secretary and Registrar and the Director of Finance and Resources)
Ms Muriel Gray FRSE (Lay Governor and Chair of the Board) Self-employed writer and broadcaster Glasgow School of Art Trustee: British Museum Trustee: GSA Development Trust Honorary Fellow: Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) Patron of: Trees for Life, The Craighalbert Centre Scottish Additional Needs Mediation Forum.
Mr Charles Beattie, (Lay Governor) MMS LLP Legal Advisers Self-employed: Santa in a Spin Christmas Board Game Women s Enterprise Scotland
Mr Douglas Brown (Lay Governor) Self-employed consultant Original T-Shirts Ltd Glenalmond Estates Ltd Humble Pie Bakery Ltd DEGW Ltd HPBSouthside Ltd Fellow, RIAS Member, RIBA Member, Chelsea Arts Club Committee Member, Bothwell Community Council. Wooddean Community Project Organisation (Chair and Trustee)
Ms Polly Christie (Elected Staff Governor)
Ms Laura Glennie (President, GSA Students Association) GSA Students Association (Sabbatical office holder) GSASA Ltd.
Professor Tom Inns (ex-officio Governor) Director, Member, Universities Scotland Member, AHRC Council
Professor Nora Kearney (Lay Governor) Retired Visiting Professor, University College Dublin
Register of Interests Mr Michael McAuley (Lay Governor) CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP Member of the Law Society of Scotland
Dr Susie Mitchell (Lay Governor) Programme Director, Glasgow City of Science and Innovation, Glasgow Science Centre.. Trustee, James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
Professor Ken Neil (ex-officio Governor) Deputy Director (Academic), Trustee of Impact Arts (expenses only)
Ms Christa Reekie (Lay Governor) Commercial Director Scottish Futures Trust
Professor Johnny Rodger (Elected Staff Governor) Glasgow School of Art Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) convenor at Glasgow School of Art Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Mr Ken Ross (Lay Governor) Self-employed: Ross Developments & Renewables Ltd Greenlaw Park Ltd Scots Renewable Energy Ltd As above, plus: 3H York Ltd Scots Renewable Energy Ltd Hospice Developments Ltd Greenlaw Development Company Holyrood Securities Ltd FR114 Halcyon City Living Scots Energy Ltd FR 108 Ltd. GSA Trustees Ltd Member of SPF Policy Board Member of the Scottish Government Joint Housing Policy and Delivery Group
Sir Muir Russell (Lay Governor and Vice-Chair) Board Member NHBC (and Chair of Scottish Committee and Remuneration Committee (from 01/01/18)) Board Member, Moredun Research Inst. Chair of Trustees, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Chair, Dunedin Concerts Trust Member, Advisory Board, Leverhulme Forensic Science Centre, Dundee Lady Russell was a Board Member of the University of the Highlands and Islands until July 2017 and of the Royal Conservatoire for Scotland until 30 April 2016. Since September 2016 she has been a Trustee of the RCS Trusts.
Mr James Sanderson (Lay Governor) Director at Sanderson Borland Architects (Architectural Company) Director at Harrison Hunt (Development Company) Studio Sanderson Ltd (Trading as Sanderson Borland) Harrison Hunt Ltd Harrison Hunt (Ballam Road, Lytham) Ltd Westgate Bridgnorth Development Partnership Ltd Old Vicarage Davenport Ltd CCA The Cathedral Architects Association THE 20 TH Century Society The Royal institute of British Architects.
Sarah Smith (Elected Staff Governor) Head of Fine Art Critical Studies, Member of UCU Member of Panel B of Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Member of British Associations of Irish Studies Member of Supervisory Board for New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA), Marie-Curie funded Innovative Training Network, 2015-present. External Examiner for MA: Art and Process, Crawford College of Art, Ireland (2016-2019) External Examiner for BA Film and BA Film and Media, Dublin Business School (2016-19)
Mr Andrew Sutherland (Lay Governor) Self-employed as a Chartered Accountant trading as ACS Consultancy Graven Images Ltd J C Peacock & Co Ltd Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland Member of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management Graven Images Ltd, Page\Park Ltd and the University of Glasgow are clients of ACS Consultancy. My wife is employed by the University of Glasgow as a Senior Lecturer
Ms Lesley Thomson (Lay Governor) Managing Director, Spreng Thomson Ltd Founding Director, Spreng Thomson Ltd Glasgow School of Art Enterprises Trustee Dewar Arts Awards Glasgow Life Tourism & Visitor Economy Leadership Group Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (President's Club) Entrepreneurial Scotland ASPA - Association Scottish Public Affairs.
Professor Alison Yarrington (Lay Governor) University of Loughborough Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) Board of the School of Advanced Study London University In the past: Richmond Chair of Fine Art, Glasgow University (2003-2011), Chair of Association of Art Historians (2011-2014) Member of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Advisory Council (2012-17).
Name of Governor/Senior Staff Attendee: Mr Alastair Milloy, Director of Finance and Resources Director of Finance and Resources, Glasgow School of Art Board Member of Glasgow College s Regional Board Fellow of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Name of Governor/Senior Staff Attendee: Dr Craig Williamson, Registrar and Secretary Registrar and Secretary, Glasgow School of Art Member of UCU