Council of Advisers

​The following are members of the Council of Advisers

Jeremy Balfour MSP

Member for Lothian (Scottish Conservatives)

Alistair Barton

Director, Pray for Scotland

Rev Ross Blackman

Minister, Hamilton Old Parish Church

Prof Adrian Bowman

Professor of Statistics; Head of School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow

Dr Isabel Bruce OBE

Chair, David Livingstone Trust

Rev Klaus Buwert

Minister, Muthill Parish Church with Trinity Gask and Kinkell

Stephen Callaghan

Director, Archdiocese of Glasgow Arts Project

Barbara Coupar

Director, Scottish Catholic Education Service, Glasgow

Dr Linda de Caestecker

International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (On Secondment); Former Director of Public Health, Greater Glasgow and Clyde

John Deighan KSG

CEO, Society for the Protection of Unborn Children

Elaine Duncan

CEO, Scottish Bible Society

Prof David Fergusson OBE

Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Dr Alan J F Fraser

Former Deputy Rector, Stornoway

Prof James M Fraser CBE

Former Principal, University of the Highlands and Islands; Board Member, SOLAS; Chair, Free Church Trustees

Murdo Fraser MSP

Member for Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Conservatives); Convenor, Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee

Rev Canon Dr Michael Fuller

Teaching Fellow, School of Divinity; New College, University of Edinburgh

Prof David Galloway

Former President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Ella Gill

Moderator, Presbytery of Lochaber

Dr Rachel Gilmour

Astrophysicist, University of Edinburgh

Allan Goodman

Representative of Independent Churches

Rev Dr Alan J Hamilton

Minister, Killermont Parish Church, Bearsden

Dr Kenneth Jeffrey

Co-ordinator, Centre for Ministry Studies; The School of History, Divinity and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen

Peter Kearney

Director, Scottish Catholic Media Office

Joanne Kennedy

Biomedical Scientist, ( Haematology and Transfusion Science)

Rev Donald Lawrie

Auchterderran Kinglassie Parish Church

Dr Antony Latham

Medical Doctor

Prof Jason Leitch CBE

National Clinical Director for Scotland

Rev George Lind

GTN Liaison Officer
Moderator, Irvine and Kilmarnock Presbytery

Dr Murdo Macdonald

Policy Officer, Society Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland

Michael McGrath

Former Director, Scottish Catholic Education Service

Alasdair Morris

CEO, MW Foods Ltd, Bishopbriggs

Dr Ian Morrison

Consultant Neurologist

Prof David Nash

Fellow CEng, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , University of Strathclyde

Prof Chris Packard CBE

Honorary Professor; Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow

Rev Kevin Peat

Elim Pentecostal Church Minister; Regional Leader for Scotland, NW England, N Wales

Ruth Penman

Cobalt Business Consulting

Prof Eric Priest

Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews

Bruce Reidford

Company Secretary, Thomas Tunnock Ltd

Dr Neil Ritchie

Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases (Bacteriology); Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow

Dr Sarah Lane Ritchie

Lecturer in Science & Theology, University of Edinburgh

Very Rev Colin Sinclair

Former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 2019-2020

Prof Neil Spurway

Emeritus Professor of Exercise Physiology, University of Glasgow, Long active in Science-&-Religion at UK and European levels,

David Strang

Former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland; Chair, Drugs Death Taskforce

David Swift

Environmental Biologist

Dr Andrew Torrance

Leader for Scientists in Congregations Scotland, St Andrews University