Deputy Chief Constable Fiona Taylor is responsible for Police 's People and Professionalism portfolio. She has executive responsibility for the following areas of business; People and Development, Professionalism and Assurance, Legal Services and Corporate Communications. DCC Taylor has over 24 years of experience serving as a senior officer with , Lothian & Borders Police, Police and the Service (MPS). Prior to leaving the MPS in December 2017, Fiona was Temporary Assistant Commissioner for Professionalism with strategic oversight and leadership of the Directorate of Professional Standards, Met Training, the Serious Crime Review Group and Operational Support Services. DCC Taylor was the MPS lead on the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing (UCPI) and was responsible for concluding activity following the independent Henriques review into the MPS’s handling of a number of high profile historical sexual abuse investigations. DCC Taylor was appointed Deputy Chief Constable - Professionalism in August 2018 and appointed as Designated Deputy Chief Constable on 28 March 2019.

Martyn Evans is the Executive Chair of the Alex Ferry Foundation. The Foundation is newly formed and aims to improve the lives of people who work or have worked in the UK shipbuilding, engineering and related manufacturing industries. It will be a unique charity. Never before has such a significant sum been awarded for the benefit of lay members of trade unions and their communities before. He is on the Board of the Scottish (SPA). Martyn was the CEO of a UK wide philanthropic research Foundation for a decade. He has had a long career in policy and evidence-based organisations. He previously Director of the Scottish Consumer Council, Citizens Advice Scotland and Shelter Scotland. He has chaired influential commissions and enquiries across the UK and Ireland in fields as diverse as welfare reform, library strategy, fairness, legal aid, citizenship and wellbeing. He was a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde. He holds a BA (hons) and an MA (econ).

Mark Shucksmith is Professor of Planning at Newcastle University, where he was also Director of the Institute for Social Renewal from 2012-18. His main areas of research include social exclusion in rural areas, rural housing, rural development and policy. He has coordinated several EU research projects. Mark has recently served as Specialist Adviser to two House of Lords Select Committees, a role he previously performed in the Scottish Parliament. He was Chair of the Scottish Government’s Committee of Inquiry into Crofting (2007-08) as well as directing the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Action in Rural Areas programme. Mark was Vice President of the International Rural Sociological Association during 2004-08 and Programme Chair for the XI World Rural Sociology Congress in Trondheim, Norway in 2004. He was awarded the honour of OBE in 2009 for services to rural development and to crofting. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Trustee of the Carnegie UK Trust and of ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England)

Russell Gunson is Director IPPR Scotland, IPPR’s dedicated thinktank for Scotland. Russell set up and has grown IPPR Scotland from scratch to become one of Scotland's leading policy organisations. Before joining IPPR in 2015, Russell worked across government, parliament, and the voluntary and private sectors. Most recently, prior to moving to IPPR Scotland, Russell was director of the National Union of Students (NUS) Scotland, working on a cross-party basis within Scottish politics. Russell has taken part in a number of Reviews and Commissions in Scotland including as a commissioner on Scotland's independent Commission on Widening Access. He was a founding director of Safe Deposits Scotland, the only non-profit tenancy deposit protection scheme based in Scotland.

Pippa Coutts is the Policy and Development Manager at the Carnegie UK Trust. She previously worked for the Alliance for Useful Evidence (NESTA). She was a development consultant with the Scottish Union of Supported Employment (SUSE) striving to overcome barriers to disabled people’s

employment and contributing to the development of self-directed support in Scotland. Previously, Pippa was an international development consultant, co-founding the successful Food Economy Group - using an innovative, capabilities-based livelihoods approach as a basis for aid decision- making. Pippa was a Programme Manager with Save the Children and a Food Security and Livelihoods Consultant with DFID. Pippa holds an MA (Cantab) Sociology and Politics and a MA in Health Service Management (NHS Management Training Scheme). Pippa is a member of the Board of Rock Trust, a charity that aims to end youth homelessness in Scotland.

Amy Wilson is Head of Justice Analytical Service at the Scottish Government. She leads a team of around thirty social researchers, statisticians, economists and operational researchers with an aim to work with policy colleagues to enhance the justice evidence base for the benefit of policy inception, delivery, evaluation and improvement. Prior to taking up this post in October 2019, Amy was Director of Statistical Services at National Records of Scotland for over seven years, where she led the work to design and delivery the 2021 Census as well being responsible for the production of demographic statistics for Scotland. A statistician by background, she joined the Government Statistical Service in 1991 and has worked in a variety of statistical posts within Scottish Government, the Department for Employment at the World Bank.

Ian Thomson is a Superintendent with Police Scotland having originally joined in 1994. Ian has responsibility for National Violence Prevention and amongst other responsibilities, heads up the National Stop and Search Unit. Ian has played a vital role in delivering changes and developing operational policing in Scotland in relation to the policy and practice of stop and search. Ian is passionate about promoting Wellbeing, and through his role as a Police Scotland Wellbeing Champion often speaks publically about his own experience on Mental Health, challenging perceptions to address stigma whilst encouraging others to do the same.

Dr Megan O’Neill is Associate Director (Police-Community Relations Network) at the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. She is a Reader in Geography in the School of Social Science at University of Dundee. She holds a PhD and a BA.

Dr Fiona Heatlie has been the Head of Research Business Development in the College of Social Sciences University of since may 2017. Previously she worked in similar roles at the University of Birmingham. She started her career as a graduate engineer at Halcrow, a multi-national engineering consultancy company. She holds a PhD, MSc and MEng.

Susan Deacon joined as Chair of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) on 4 December 2017.Her early career was in local government, followed by senior roles in management training and development in the private sector and higher education. She served as an MSP from 1999 to 2007 and was Scotland’s first Cabinet Minister for Health and Community Care following devolution. Over the past decade, Susan has held a range of Board positions and has contributed to governance and policy reviews in key areas of Scottish public life. She is a former Chair of the Institute of Directors in Scotland, Chair of the Edinburgh Festivals Forum, an advisor on External Relations for the University of Edinburgh and a Non-Executive Director of Lothian Buses. Susan was also awarded a CBE for services to business, education and public service in 2017.