Professor Gavin McCrone CB, FRSE (appointed 2014)
Gavin McCrone has studied, written and lectured
about the Scottish economy over a period of many
years at the University of Oxford, the University
of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh
Business School. For over two decades he was
Chief Economic Adviser to successive Secretaries
of State for Scotland. He was successively head
of two Scottish Government Departments - the
Industry Department for Scotland and the Scottish
Development Department.