David Orr

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David Orr is Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation and a former President of CECODHAS-Housing Europe, the European Liaison Committee for Social Housing. He has chaired the mobility taskforce...

Andy Wightman

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Andy Wightman (@andywightman) is a freelance writer, researcher and analyst specialising in land reform, land tenure, land rights and landownership and is a leading advocate of land reform in Scotland....

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John Downie

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John leads the public affairs department of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), including the policy and research team and the communications and campaigns team. He has lead responsibility...

Peter Duncan

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Peter Duncan is Managing Director of Message Matters, a strategic communications consultancy in Edinburgh, which is retained by Reform Scotland. He is a former Conservative MP....

Rob Shorthouse

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Rob is the Director of Communications for Better Together, the principal organisation representing the parties, organisations, and individuals campaigning for a No vote in the Scottish independence....

Mike Hoffman

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Mike is a graduate of Rutgers University, with a BA in Political Science, minoring in National Security and Religious Studies. He is currently in the process of completing an MA...

Yossi Ives

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Rabbi Dr. Yossi Ives Yossi is the founder and chief executive of Tag Institute for Social Development (www.taginstitute.org), a think tank and research centre that addressed pressing social...

Peter Kelly

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Peter has thirty years’ experience across banking and community finance and has been with Unity for the past year. He set up the first financial inclusion unit in the UK...

Mark Luntley

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Mark Luntley graduated from Loughborough University in 1982 and qualified as a CIPFA accountant in 1987. He has worked at the Audit Commission,  and across Local Government, the LGA and...

Gaynor Hartnell

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Gaynor Hartnell is a freelance consultant specialising in renewable energy. She has had eighteen years of high profile experience in the field, most recently as the Chief Executive of the...