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Scottish Enterprise appointment
30/11/2005
Enterprise Minister Nicol Stephen today announced the appointment of a new member to the Board of Scottish Enterprise.
Mr Stephen said:
"I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Timothy O'Shea to the Board of Scottish Enterprise. In Scotland today we need ever better links between higher education and industry so that we create more science based start up businesses and so that more companies are involved in research and innovation. Professor O'Shea's first hand experience will be of huge value to Scottish Enterprise in helping bring universities and business closer together."
Professor Timothy O'Shea FRSE, is the Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh. He is Convenor of Universities Scotland Research and Commercialisation Committee and is currently a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee (which provides strategic guidance to further and higher education establishments on the use of Information Technology), Intermediary Technology Institute Scotland and the Roslin Institute Governing Body.
He is a computer scientist and was formerly Master of Birkbeck and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of London, founding Chair of the London Metropolitan Network (LMN) Ltd and Higher Education & Research Opportunities (HERO) Ltd. He is also a member of the Board of the British Council.
The appointment will be for three years and will run from December 1, 2005 to November 30, 2008.
The post is part-time attracting a remuneration of £12,365 per annum for a time commitment of 2.5 days per month. Professor O'Shea does not hold any other Ministerial Public Appointments.
Scottish Enterprise is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) and plays a lead role in implementing the enterprise strategy of the Scottish Executive.
This Ministerial public appointment is made in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland's Code of Practice.
All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees' political activity (if there is any to be declared) to be made public. In the last five years, Professor O'Shea has not been involved in any political activity.