Company
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
First-degree level higher education
Official record Companies House · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Karen Valerie WattDirector · since 2026
- Ewan James Daniel McintoshDirector · since 2026
- Umut MertDirector · since 2025
- Tabitha DearieDirector · since 2025
- Andrew Barry David OutramDirector · since 2025
- Jamie MackayDirector · since 2025
- Dr Robert LaidlowDirector · since 2024
- Alexander LeeDirector · since 2023
- William Gordon EnglishDirector · since 2023
- Ruth Gillies CalderDirector · since 2022
- Elizabeth Louise JenkinsonDirector · since 2021
- Matthew Andre Paul RookeDirector · since 2021
- Dr John TaylorDirector · since 2021
- Dr Joanne Marie Kirkbride BuckleyDirector · since 2021
- Professor Nacim Pak-ShirazDirector · since 2021
- Dr Lois Karen FitchDirector · since 2020
- Campbell, Morag, Ms.Director · since 2019
- Professor Dorothy Evelyn MiellDirector · since 2019
- Andrew Keith ButcherDirector · since 2019
- Professor Stuart Robert CrossDirector · since 2019
- Caroline Anne RoxburghDirector · since 2018
- Sharon Margaret MairDirector · since 2017
- Jeffrey Neil SharkeyDirector · since 2014
- Professor Vicky GunnSecretary · since 2021
Previous officers 171
- Dale Jordan Thrupp 2024–2025 View profile
- Ulysse Tonnele-Verjus 2023–2025 View profile
- Scotty Scott 2022–2023 View profile
- Ken Haga Fairbrother 2021–2024 View profile
- Ruth Mcgowan 2021–2022 View profile
- Professor Mark O'Thomas 2021–2022 View profile
- Dr David John Paterson Hare 2021–2025 View profile
- John Anthony Craig 2020–2022 View profile
- Zweyla KaíMa Mitchell Dos Santos 2020–2022 View profile
- Philip Emanuel Rodney 2019–2025 View profile
- Susan Lee Kidd 2019–2021 View profile
- Jasmine Munns 2018–2020 View profile
- Nicholas Michael James Olsen 2018–2019 View profile
- Aidan Teplitzky 2017–2020 View profile
- Sir Jonathan Edward Harland Mills 2017–2020 View profile
- Colleen Mary Toomey 2017–2020 View profile
- Dr Anne Lorne Gillies 2017–2018 View profile
- Victoria Chen Wei 2017–2017 View profile
- William Stringer 2016–2018 View profile
- Tibetari Lang 2016–2020 View profile
- Professor Nicholas Christopher Dwelly Kuenssberg 2016–2022 View profile
- Mark Paris 2016–2019 View profile
- Jean Sangster 2016–2025 View profile
- Maria Alice Theresa Taylor 2015–2021 View profile
- Edmund Joseph Monaghan 2015–2025 View profile
- Fiona Catherine Ballantyne 2015–2018 View profile
- Agnes Lawrie Addie Shonaig Macpherson 2015–2017 View profile
- Ankna Arockiam 2015–2016 View profile
- Mohammad Amin Keshmiri 2015–2016 View profile
- Dr Laura Claire Bissell 2015–2018 View profile
- Catherine Elizabeth Marshall Williams Jackson 2014–2017 View profile
- Ian Andrew Mcbain 2014–2015 View profile
- Carol Betsy Lees Dickson Main 2014–2023 View profile
- Mark Murray Leishman 2013–2020 View profile
- Agnes Robson 2013–2022 View profile
- Iain Peter Jennison 2013–2014 View profile
- Dr Cindy Sughrue 2012–2016 View profile
- Luke Harris 2012–2013 View profile
- Donald James Renwick Macrae 2012–2021 View profile
- Gavin Donald Reid 2012–2018 View profile
- Stephen John Inch 2012–2015 View profile
- Mark Saunders 2012–2015 View profile
- John Francis Hylands 2011–2020 View profile
- Rachel Brimley 2011–2012 View profile
- Matthew John Chinn 2011–2014 View profile
- Paul Arthur Jourdan 2010–2016 View profile
- Parr, Christopher Alick, George 2010–2013 View profile
- Steven Brian Philips 2010–2011 View profile
- Professor Norman Neil Nicolson Gillies 2010–2019 View profile
- Rsamd 2010–2012 View profile
- Dr Donald Runnicles 2010–2012 View profile
- Gordon James Munro 2009–2012 View profile
- Norman Leonard Sharp 2009–2019 View profile
- Rose-Ann Healy 2008–2011 View profile
- Vicky Featherstone 2008–2013 View profile
- Berry Dean Mcaleer 2007–2009 View profile
- Jean Urquhart MBE 2007–2011 View profile
- Eileen Alison Mackay 2007–2016 View profile
- Joyce Elizabeth Goodwin 2007–2016 View profile
- Professor Niall Lothian 2007–2011 View profile
- Sir Alexander Maxwell Crombie 2007–2016 View profile
- Sir Brian John Mcmaster 2006–2014 View profile
- Vallance of Tummel, Iain David Thomas, the Lord Vallance of Tummel 2006–2016 View profile
- James Gourlay 2006–2008 View profile
- James Young Miller 2006–2013 View profile
- Professor Maggie Kinloch 2006–2016 View profile
- Dr Peter Henderson Inness 2005–2006 View profile
- Kirstin Marie Cameron Sharpin 2005–2007 View profile
- Ronald Gurr 2005–2006 View profile
- Caroline Cochrane 2005–2008 View profile
- Christopher Simon Gorman OBE 2005–2010 View profile
- Michael Owers 2004–2005 View profile
- Russell Gilbert Colley Boyce 2004–2005 View profile
- John Bullard Gray 2004–2007 View profile
- Thomas Gilchrist 2004–2013 View profile
- Hugh Matthew Hodgart 2004–2009 View profile
- Margaret Anne Friday 2003–2004 View profile
- John Mccormick 2003–2008 View profile
- Alan Scott 2003–2008 View profile
- George Lowden Edwards 2002–2008 View profile
- Professor Joseph Thomson 2002–2008 View profile
- Louise Catherine Mitchell 2002–2011 View profile
- Naheed Cruickshank 2002–2006 View profile
- Pauline Elizabeth Sim 2002–2003 View profile
- Alan William Ward 2002–2005 View profile
- Ian Duncan Charles Smith 2002–2005 View profile
- Professor John Bain 2002–2006 View profile
- Peter Frank Ogilvie Cross 2002–2005 View profile
- John Williamson Wallace 2002–2014 View profile
- Dr Donna Soto-Morettini 2001–2004 View profile
- Kate Jane Williams 2001–2002 View profile
- Dr Bridget Mary Mcconnell 2001–2013 View profile
- Sarah Jane Kershaw Franchi 2001–2004 View profile
- Philip Anthony Oppenheim 2001–2013 View profile
- Professor Celia Patricia Duffy 2001–2003 View profile
- Sir Robert Russell Hillhouse 2000–2008 View profile
- Michaela Dunne 2000–2001 View profile
- Richard Findlay 2000–2004 View profile
- Neil Herriot 1999–2000 View profile
- Lisa Jane Davidson 1998–1999 View profile
- Douglas Turner Boyd 1998–2007 View profile
- William Francis Magee 1998–2007 View profile
- Dr James Rowland Mitchell 1998–2007 View profile
- Alexandra Mary Rutherford 1997–1998 View profile
- Vladimir Mirodan 1996–2001 View profile
- Right Honourable Lord Brian Gill 1996–2006 View profile
- Robert Hugh Gallagher 1995–1997 View profile
- William John English 1994–2000 View profile
- Paul Michael Hughes 1994–1996 View profile
- Robert Malcolm Love 1994–2002 View profile
- Ellin, Duncan John, Captain 1994–2002 View profile
- Lorna Willene Jackson 1994–2002 View profile
- Leslie James Brand 1994–1995 View profile
- James Archibald Scott 1994–1994 View profile
- Dr Bartholomew John Mcgettrick 1994–2002 View profile
- John Bradley Shaw 1994–2002 View profile
- Lorenzo Mele 1993–1994 View profile
- Michael Mcgovern 1993–1993 View profile
- Robert Keith Simpson 1993–1994 View profile
- William John Garrett 1993–1993 View profile
- Jean Moore 1993–1996 View profile
- Mark Denis Stevenson 1992–1993 View profile
- Ian Matthew Wilson 1992–2000 View profile
- Alan Nicol Duncan 1991–2003 View profile
- William Joseph Wright 1991–1992 View profile
- Malcolm Mciver O.B.E 1991–1998 View profile
- Professor Graham Barry Hair 1991–1999 View profile
- Irvine Allan 1990–1991 View profile
- Robert Thomson 1990–1998 View profile
- Stewart William Mccreath 1990–2002 View profile
- Craig Robert Jackson 1989–1990 View profile
- Gilmore, Stan, Justice of the Peace 1989–1988 View profile
- Jan Brown Inglis Mcdonald 1989–1994 View profile
- Andros Stakis 1989–1991 View profile
- Thomas Renfrew Bone 1989–1988 View profile
- Robert Mann Innes 1989–1994 View profile
- Anne Cunningham 1989–1992 View profile
- Lady Oona Mairi Macfie Ivory D.L. 1989–2000 View profile
- Paul Hugh Alexander Stenhouse 1989–1990 View profile
- Robert Mackenzie Downie 1989–2000 View profile
- John Alister Davidson 1989–1989 View profile
- Robin Noel Barr 1992 View profile
- Anthony Harold Brown 1991 View profile
- Raymond Macleod Williamson 2002 View profile
- Harley Loudon 1988 View profile
- Raymond Monelle 1988 View profile
- Kenneth Newis 1988 View profile
- Ian Wooldridge 1990 View profile
- William Mcintosh Millar 1991 View profile
- Mcallister, Rita, Doctor 2005 View profile
- Sir Alexander Drummond Gibson 1991 View profile
- Elizabeth Ann Field 1988 View profile
- Charles Mccafferty 1988 View profile
- John Neill Anderson 1992 View profile
- Jack Keaney 1988 View profile
- Ronald Vincent Singleton 2002 View profile
- Sally Simpson 1989 View profile
- Martin Fuller Vernon Heller 1994 View profile
- Albert Edward Argent 1996 View profile
- Dr Marjorie Elizabeth Rycroft 1988 View profile
- Sir Philip Stevens Ledger 2001 View profile
- Morrison Alexander Rankin Dunbar 1991 View profile
- Walter Wolfe 1994 View profile
- Richard Allan Milloy Blackburn 1988 View profile
- Dr Thomas Renfrew Bone 1988 View profile
- Peter Nicholas D'Souza 1988 View profile
- Eric Herbert Webster 1991 View profile
- Lindsey Shields 2018–2021 View profile
- William Mcewan Hainey 2013–2018 View profile
- Alan John Robertson Smith 2005–2013 View profile
- Agnes Isobel Fowler 2005 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- First-degree level higher education; Post-graduate level higher education; Other education n.e.c.
- Incorporated
- 13/12/1900
- Previous names
- The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (until 01/09/2011)
Board analysis for researchers
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
23 directors on the board
- Dr Lois Karen Fitch Director · appointed 2020
- Umut Mert Director · appointed 2025
- Andrew Barry David Outram Director · appointed 2025
- Campbell, Morag, Ms. Director · appointed 2019
- Caroline Anne Roxburgh Director · appointed 2018
- Matthew Andre Paul Rooke Director · appointed 2021
- Jeffrey Neil Sharkey Director · appointed 2014
- Alexander Lee Director · appointed 2023
- Jamie Mackay Director · appointed 2025
- Dr John Taylor Director · appointed 2021
- Dr Robert Laidlow Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Dorothy Evelyn Miell Director · appointed 2019
- Andrew Keith Butcher Director · appointed 2019
- Tabitha Dearie Director · appointed 2025
- Dr Joanne Marie Kirkbride Buckley Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz Director · appointed 2021
- Karen Valerie Watt Director · appointed 2026
- Elizabeth Louise Jenkinson Director · appointed 2021
- Ruth Gillies Calder Director · appointed 2022
- Sharon Margaret Mair Director · appointed 2017
- Ewan James Daniel Mcintosh Director · appointed 2026
- William Gordon English Director · appointed 2023
- Professor Stuart Robert Cross Director · appointed 2019
Directors past 6 years
- Dr Lois Karen Fitch Director · appointed 2020
- Campbell, Morag, Ms. Director · appointed 2019
- Caroline Anne Roxburgh Director · appointed 2018
- Jeffrey Neil Sharkey Director · appointed 2014
- Professor Dorothy Evelyn Miell Director · appointed 2019
- Andrew Keith Butcher Director · appointed 2019
- Sharon Margaret Mair Director · appointed 2017
- Professor Stuart Robert Cross Director · appointed 2019
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (12)
- Umut Mert Director · appointed 2025
- Alexander Lee Director · appointed 2023
- Jamie Mackay Director · appointed 2025
- Dr Robert Laidlow Director · appointed 2024
- Tabitha Dearie Director · appointed 2025
- Dr Joanne Marie Kirkbride Buckley Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz Director · appointed 2021
- Karen Valerie Watt Director · appointed 2026
- Elizabeth Louise Jenkinson Director · appointed 2021
- Ruth Gillies Calder Director · appointed 2022
- Sharon Margaret Mair Director · appointed 2017
- William Gordon English Director · appointed 2023
Portfolio (11)
- Dr Lois Karen Fitch Director · appointed 2020
- Andrew Barry David Outram Director · appointed 2025
- Campbell, Morag, Ms. Director · appointed 2019
- Caroline Anne Roxburgh Director · appointed 2018
- Matthew Andre Paul Rooke Director · appointed 2021
- Jeffrey Neil Sharkey Director · appointed 2014
- Dr John Taylor Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Dorothy Evelyn Miell Director · appointed 2019
- Andrew Keith Butcher Director · appointed 2019
- Ewan James Daniel Mcintosh Director · appointed 2026
- Professor Stuart Robert Cross Director · appointed 2019
Also govern a charity
Left in the last 12 months
- Ulysse Tonnele-Verjus Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2025
- Philip Emanuel Rodney Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- SC004703
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRIV LTD SECT. 30 (Private limited company, section 30 of the Companies Act)
- Accounts next due
- 30/04/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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