OSCR Board

The Very Revd Dr Graham Forbes CBE, Chair, has been Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh since 1990. After degrees in Russian and Theology, he was ordained in 1977 and has combined his ecclesiastical duties with various public appointments, mostly in the areas of health or criminal justice.  He served on the General Medical Council for 12 years, chaired the Scottish Executive Expert Group on MMR, and was a non-executive board member of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.  Dr Forbes is also the chair of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

A former HM Lay Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland, member of the Parole Board and chair of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, Dr Forbes also chaired the UK body which advised the UK government on ethical issues during the swine 'flu pandemic .  He is a member of the Armed Services Pay Review Body and the Security Vetting Appeal Panel.  He was awarded the CBE in 2004 for public service in Scotland. Read Graham's register of interest.

Lindsay Montgomery CBE, Deputy Chair is the Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board. Other current roles include: Chairman of the Non Departmental Public Bodies Chief Executives' Forum, a member of the Scottish Government's Procurement Reform Board, Chairman of the Central Government Procurement Supervisory Board, external observer on the Scottish Government Remuneration Group, member of the Scottish Government's Corporate Systems Programme Board.  He has a wide background in the public sector including having been a Director of Scottish Natural Heritage and held posts in HM Treasury and Export Credit Guarantee Department.  He is Chairman of the OSCR Audit Committee.  Previously he was a Non-Executive Director of OSCR when it was a Scottish Executive Agency and is also the chairman of a small cancer charity.

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Fiona Ballantyne is Managing Director of Ballantyne Mackay Consultants and a Director of 4-consulting Ltd. She has served as Vice-Chair on the BBC Broadcasting Council for Scotland, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Queen Margaret University, and the board of Edinburgh Healthcare Trust and Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop Ltd. She is Chair of the Board of Museums Galleries Scotland and was also Chair of the Edinburgh Branch of the Institute of Directors and a member of the IOD Scotland Committee. She is a member of the Communications Consumer Panel and a Trustee of Music at the Brewhouse Ltd.

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Kaliani Lyle was Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Scotland from1998 to 2010.  She practiced as a pharmacist before turning to community education.  Formerly Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Refugee Council, she was recognised as one of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland's Scots of the Year in 2007, when she received the Alastair Hetherington Award for Humanitarian service.  She was a member of the McFadden Scottish Charity Law Review Commission which led to the eventual establishment of  OSCR; and the Sentencing Commission.  She was a member of the Signet Accreditation Board and GMC UK Revalidation Programme.

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Annie Gunner Logan is the Director of CCPS - the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland - which brings together all the most substantial voluntary sector organisations providing care and support services in Scottish communities.

Annie began her career in Scotland's voluntary and public sectors through a Community Programme placement with the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) in 1988.  She went on to work with the Health Education Board for Scotland (now NHS Health Scotland) and Children in Scotland, where she was Information and Public Affairs Manager.  Annie serves on a number of Scottish Government advisory and reference groups as a representative of the voluntary sector, and has served as a charity trustee with Phoenix Futures and the Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium. She has a Masters Degree in Social and Public Policy from the University of Edinburgh.

David Hughes Hallett is a Chartered Surveyor, Consultant, and Mediator, working mainly in heritage and the environment and the voluntary sector.  He has been an adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the past ten years.  His past appointments have included:  Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland; Convener of the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations; Main Board member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; Board member and Depute Convener of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority; Panel member of Waterwatch Scotland.  He is currently Local Adviser for Scottish Natural Heritage for Forth and Borders Area; Chair of Fife Environment Trust; a Public Interest member of the Audit Registration Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland; and a Lay member of the Registration and Conduct Committee of the Scottish Social Services Council. Read David's register of interest.

Professor David Harrison is Head of Pathology at the University of Edinburgh; Director of Laboratory Medicine across NHS Lothian; Honorary Consultant Pathologist in Lothian University Hospitals Division; and the Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit.  He is a member of the Committee on Toxicity, Food Standards Agency, and chair of an independent, grant-funding charity, Medical Research Scotland.
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Oscar Mendoza is a Social Scientist with post graduate qualifications in Social Research Methods who currently works as Head of Overseas Programmes for Mary's Meals. He was Assistant Director of Operations for the Big Lottery Fund between 2005 and August 2010. Previously he managed the overseas projects section of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF), and has been a Board member of VETAID UK and a Management Committee member of the Scottish Churches World Exchange. He has worked extensively with charities focused on human rights in Chile and Central America, acting as a General Council member for the Chile Committee for Human Rights and treasurer for Central America Network Scotland and Chile Democratico (Scotland).

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