The aim of this Fellow-led event is to offer an opportunity for Fellows across Scotland, the rest of the UK and beyond to gather online for a wide-ranging conversation.
This is a great chance to meet and network with other RSA Fellows virtually and informally, especially if you are currently unable to attend the in-person meetups for Fellows.
RSA Fellows in Finland who are currently actively seeking to re-engage post pandemic will be particularly welcome to join us.
Our speakers will be discussing a number of important and interesting topics, such as leadership, placemaking, prescribing culture and the energy industry.
Speakers
Jukka Aminoff FRSA is an author. He has written two books about the Commonwealth of Nations in the Finnish language with links also to the British and Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce in Finland and the RCS Nordic-Baltic Hub. He was an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) 2015-2020. He has a master's degree from ARU.
Ruthanne Baxter FRSA is Civic Engagement Manager for the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collections and creator of Prescribe Culture, an award-winning, heritage-based, non-clinical health support initiative. Additionally Ruthanne is a member of the Edinburgh Futures Institute Student Mental Health Research Cluster, is Co-Founder of Gladden Village, a fictional online village founded on heritage stories created to help reduce loneliness and isolation and provides consultancy on heritage for health nationally and internationally.
Mark Clark MBE WS is Co-founder and CEO of Transformational, and an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He provides consulting, facilitation, executive coaching, and group coaching support to develop leadership, collaboration, and high-performing teams. He has 30 years’ experience at the intersection of leadership, complexity, and conflict, serving in the army and Foreign Office and working with different governments, NGOs, the Olympic movement, in corporate law and the private sector; in the UK, India, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Papua New Guinea, and Jordan, where he served for 12 years as CEO of Generations For Peace, a global peacebuilding organisation with 22,000 peacebuilders in 52 countries.
Tom Morris C.Eng, FIMechE, MA, FRSA has had a global energy sector career with Shell, Cairn Energy, OMV and most recently Getech Group. He is a chartered mechanical engineer, with in-depth economic and commercial experience. He has built and led country teams in Russia, Senegal and the United Kingdom. Recently Tom has been involved in engineering planning for two UK green hydrogen sites. He has volunteer experience in Manila, Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy, and is a keen telemark skier.
Bill Pagan MBE, TD, WS, FRSA, is a Fife resident, a retired Solicitor and Army Reservist, whose other appointments included, locally, Chamber of Commerce and Scottish Enterprise. He is a former Trustee of (i) The MacRobert Trust and (ii) Built Environment Forum Scotland. As recent past chairman of the Cupar Development Trust, he welcomes the intentions of recent Community Empowerment legislation but doubts it will deliver. He chairs SCIO “Three Estates Cupar”.
Dr Rupert Graf Strachwitz FRSA was the founder and CEO of the Maecenata Foundation, a think tank based in Berlin, from which latter role he recently retired. A member of Europa Nostra Germany, and a 1992-2012 member of Europa Nostra’s Council, he is a political scientist. Since 1989 he has been involved in research and public policy on civil society and philanthropy, with around 700 publications to his name. He teaches and lectures at home and abroad on boards of philanthropic and other institutions, including the German-British Society and the International Rescue Committee. In the past he also served at the Sovereign Military Order of Malta HQ as regional director for the OM German Relief Service and as President of the Duke of Bavaria’s administration.
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