OSCR Board

OSCR's Board was appointed by Scottish Ministers following a public appointments process overseen by an assessor on behalf of the Scottish Public Appointments Commissioner.

The Board consists of a Chair, a Deputy Chair and six Board Members. Board Members are appointed for a term of four years. The posts are part time at 1.5 days a month and attract remuneration of £200 a day.

The Board has governance responsibility for strategy and the future direction of OSCR.

View the Minutes of OSCR Board Meetings.

Read OSCR Board Members' Code of Conduct

OSCR's Board Members

John Naylor, Chair

Photo of John Naylor - Board member

John Naylor OBE, Chair, was most recently Chief Executive of the Carnegie UK Trust for 11 years. Previously he was Chief Executive of YMCA England, where he was joint founder of Y Care International. John was on the Board of the UK Big Lottery Fund and chaired the Scottish Community Fund. He was founding Convenor of the Scottish Grant Making Trusts Group and a member of the McFadden Scottish Charity Law Review Commission which led to the establishment of OSCR. He is Chair of the UK Scout Association Development Grants Board and a member of the UK Scout Council. He is a member trustee of Medical Research Scotland, Vice Chair of Strange Town, an Edinburgh youth theatre group, and Treasurer of the Tomorrow Project, an independent charity researching people’s lives in the next 20 years. He is also a Kirk Elder in Edinburgh. All of these positions are voluntary.

Read John's register of interest.

Lindsay Montgomery CBE, Deputy Chair is the Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Aid 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. 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.

Read Lindsay's register of interest.

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. She is a director of Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop Ltd, Chair of the Board of Museums Galleries Scotland (formerly the Scottish Museums Council) and was also Chair of the Edinburgh Branch of the Institute of Directors and a member of the IOD Scotland Committee. She is also a member of OFCOM's Consumer Panel.

Read Fiona's register of interest.

Kaliani Lyle has been Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Scotland since 1998. 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 is also a member of the Signet Accreditation Board and GMC UK Revalidation Programme.

Read Kaliani's register of interest.

Annie Gunner Logan is the Director of Community Care Providers Scotland (CCPS), the association of voluntary organisations providing care 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 is Vice Chair of the UK drug treatment charity, Phoenix Futures, and a board member of the Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium. She serves on a number of Scottish Executive advisory and reference groups, including the National Social Work Services Forum. Annie has a Masters Degree in Social and Public Policy from the University of Edinburgh.

Read Annie's register of interest.

David Hughes Hallett is a Chartered Surveyor and Consultant, principally working in rural land, heritage and the voluntary sector. He has acted as an adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the last seven years, been Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland and Convenor of the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations. He has previously been a Board member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and is currently a member of the North East Panel of Waterwatch Scotland, a Local Adviser for Scottish Natural Heritage (Forth and Borders Area) and a Director of Fife Environment Trust. He is also Deputy Convener of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority.

Read David's register of interest.

Professor David Harrison is Head of Pathology at the University of Edinburgh; Clinical Director for Laboratory Medicine across NHS Lothian; Honorary Consultant Pathologist in Lothian University Hospitals Division; and the Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit - one of three such units within the charity. He was Director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre and is a founding Board Member of the MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine. He is a member of the Committee on Toxicity, Food Standards Agency, and was recently Vice Chair of the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee. He is Chair of the research grant-making charity Medical Research Scotland, and the Nazareth Trust, a Scottish charity that owns and runs a hospital and nursing school in the Middle East.

Read David's register of interest.

Oscar Mendoza is a Social Scientist with post graduate qualifications in Social Research Methods who works as Assistant Director of Operations for the Big Lottery Fund. 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 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 General Council member for the Chile Committee for Human Rights and treasurer for Central America Network Scotland and Chile Democratico (Scotland).

Read Oscar's register of interest.

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