Creative Industries Advisory Group
Role of the group
The Creative Industries Advisory Group was established in January 2017 to advise Scottish Ministers on how to support and grow Scotland's creative industries sector.
Co-chaired by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop and film producer Bob Last, the group will meet twice a year.
Its membership includes representatives from all 16 sub-sectors of the creative industries, as well as observers from Creative Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Members
Ministers
- Fiona Hyslop – Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs (Co-chair)
- Paul Wheelhouse – Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy
Creative industries
- Bob Last – film producer (Co-chair)
- Brian Coane – The Leith Agency / Institute of Advertising Practitioners Scotland
- Willie Watt – Nicholl Russell Studios / Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
- Toby Webster – The Modern Institute
- Carol Sinclair – Carol Sinclair Ceramics
- Lorna Macaulay – The Harris Tweed Authority
- Chris Hunt – Scotland Re:designed
- Janice Kirkpatrick – Graven
- Lucy Mason – National Theatre of Scotland
- Dougal Perman – Scottish Music Industry Association
- David Eustace – Photographer and Chancellor of Napier University
- Colin Anderson – Denki
- Cameron Fraser – Ko Lik Animated Films
- Ciara Philips – Artist
- Pamela Tulloch – Scottish Library and Information Council
- Sarah Cameron – SENSCOT
- Polly Purvis – ScotlandIS
- Jane Muirhead – Raise the Roof Productions
- Jenny Todd – Canongate Books
- Alex Smith – XpoNorth
- Simon Cotton – Johnstons of Elgin
- Joanne Orr – Museums Galleries Scotland
- Claire Forsyth – Glasgow Print Studio
- Rachael Brown – Cultural Enterprise Office
- Philip Hannay – Cloch Solicitors
- John Kampfner – Creative Industries Federation
Observers
- Creative Scotland
- Scottish Enterprise
- Skills Development Scotland
- Highlands and Islands Enterprise