I have been chair of Kingussie Community Development Company, the charity which built the community hydro on our local river, since 2014 and am chair of Badenoch Heritage, the charity which is focused on making the history and historic environment of Badenoch better known for the benefit of both locals and visitors.  I live in Inverness-shire and have a keen interest in the development of paths and tourist infrastructure in the countryside and thus encouraging sustainable tourism.  My other interests include walking and other country pursuits, collecting books on Scottish history (particularly Badenoch) and cricket.

I have had a lifetime love of the hills, especially the Cairngorms, and have benefited from, and thus appreciated, the huge amount of voluntary work done in providing sympathetic access for ordinary people to our great open spaces, much of which has been led by OATS.

I am Vice Chair of the Cairngorms LEADER Local Action Group, Vice Chair of the Cairngorms Local Action Group Trust, Chair of Addiction Counselling Services Inverness, and a member of the SportScotland Board. In my spare time I am a keen walker and football supporter.

I sit on the Board of the Cairngorms National Park Authority and the Council of the EUROPARC federation of Protected areas in Europe.

I was engaged in numerous significant property projects, including extensive involvement in long-term upland footpath and visitor management. I am a keen skier and mountaineer and have been a member of Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team since 2011. My other interests include cycling, travel and research into Scottish military and aviation history.

A chartered surveyor with an agricultural degree, I retired in 2009 after nearly 14 years as resident factor of Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire, having been Factor of Strathmore Estates in Angus and County Durham for over 22 years. I was a partner of Youngs Chartered Surveyors and am now a consultant with Bell Ingram.  I have holidayed and worked in the Cairngorms for over 60 years. My principal interest is in land management and I ski, fish, sail, curl, sing in a choir, and used to golf (poorly).

An Edinburgh and Birmingham University graduate, I’m a Chartered Biologist and completed the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainable Business Leadership. I’ve a particular interest in strategic policy and planning in rural and mountain areas and believe in a sustainable economic approach which integrates community needs and aspirations with a high-quality environment. My studies and reports have helped over 20 communities win several millions in funding support and take 100,000 hectares of land, forest and coastline into community ownership. I’m a mountaineer (completed the Munros 1989) and cyclist.