David Bentley is Deputy Group Finance Director of Standard Life and a non-executive Director of several Standard Life subsidiaries. He is a Member of Council of ICAS and Chairman of the ICAS Technical Policy Board. He is a Member of the Financial Regulation and Taxation Committee of the Association of British Insurers and a Member of the European Insurers CFO Forum. He is also a Member of the Audit Committee of the University of Edinburgh and a Corporate Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust.

Ian Marrian joined the Secretariat of ICAS in 1984 starting as its Director of Education and finishing as its Chief Executive from which post he retired at the end of 2004. Prior to that he was an audit and technical partner in Deloitte Haskins and Sells working with them for 20 years in Edinburgh, London and Rome. Since retiring he has engaged in a number of consultancy projects including advising the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs on mutual recognition agreements and advising the Ministry of Finance in Bangladesh on the setting up of a Financial Reporting Council. He is a Governor at the Edinburgh College of Art, a Director of a building conservation trust and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Alison McGilvray has worked in many different settings - mainly in the voluntary sector, libraries and universities. She was Director of a Scotland-wide charity for eight years and was a non executive director of an NHS Trust. She currently works for Volunteer Development Scotland. Her voluntary activities include participation, as a lay reviewer, in the work of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. Alison is a graduate librarian.

Neil Menzies had a career in the UK chemical industry. He now runs an advisory service, working with the economic regulator for the Scottish water services industry, is a member of Network Rail, sits on the Professional Conduct Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is a director/trustee of several Scottish charities. He has held three public appointments: as a board member of the Scottish Water and Sewerage Customers Council, the Scottish Ambulance Service and energywatch.

David Spence was President of ICAS in 1998/1999. He is involved with various aspects of Institute business and currently chairs the Research Committee. He is the London Senior Partner of Grant Thornton UK LLP and is a Lead Partner in their Forensic and Investigation Services Department. His broad regulatory, investigations, litigation and advisory experience is backed by 30 years' involvement in corporate finance, audit and turnaround work. He has held several high profile external appointments and has also acted as a DTI Inspector on two occasions.

Professor Pauline Weetman has been a professor of accounting at the University of Strathclyde since 1999. She has served as a Member of Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and has acted as their Director of Research. She has 30 years’ experience in higher education teaching, researching and publishing on matters of accounting, and has worked closely with the accountancy profession throughout that time. She has chaired the Board of Accreditation of Accountancy Educational Courses and is a lay member of the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal, a non-executive member of the Board of the Students’ Awards Agency for Scotland, and a member of the Advisory Council for the Scottish Qualifications Authority. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003 and received the Distinguished Academic Award of the British Accounting Association in 2005.

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Ellen Peacock has been the Information Service Manager since August 2004. Prior to this she worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and The Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) in London. She has a BA in Information and Library Management from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle.

Bridget Bell has worked in the Information Service since 1984. Prior to this she worked at the Lycee Français in London. She has an MA in History from Glasgow University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship from Ealing College.