Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG) Board and Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG) Community Interest Company (CIC) Board

A University of Glasgow graduate, Annette trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) and has been a lifelong supporter of the arts.

Having previously worked overseas for many years, Annette has a broad range of experience in communications, sales, marketing, business development, product promotion, brand building, reputation management and client services.

Her political career has seen her campaigning to affect social change and empowering disadvantaged communities as well as championing the rights of women and girls.

Annette also sits on the boards of the Glasgow City Integrated Joint Board, and city arts organisation Cryptic, as well as being a trustee of the Blindcraft Trust.

Susan has more than 20 years’ experience in the public sector, having held senior positions within Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life.

Core to Glasgow Life’s vision is the belief in the transformative power of culture and sport to fundamentally change people’s lives – helping to build happier, healthier, more prosperous and more productive communities.

Susan’s work includes overseeing Glasgow Life’s direct delivery of culture and sport services and programmes across the city. This includes responsibility for more than 100 public buildings, from iconic venues like the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to The Mitchell Library and the Emirates Arena. Glasgow Life also operates an extensive network of community facilities, including 32 local libraries, 18 community centres and the Glasgow Club; Scotland’s largest health and fitness network.

Working in partnership with local and national agencies, Susan provides expertise, guidance, and leadership across key initiatives in support of Glasgow’s culture, sport, tourism and events priorities.

She also has responsibility for leading the development of major city strategies, which has included the refreshed Vision for Glasgow’s Libraries; the Glasgow 2030 Tourism Strategy; and the city’s new Culture and Events strategies. Glasgow Life is also currently developing innovative new city strategies for Community Learning, and Physical Activity and Sport, both of which will be published in 2025.

Before moving to Scotland in 1995, she studied Archaeology and Social Sciences in Stockholm and worked for the Museum of National Antiquities.

A former member of Stockholm Caledonia Pipe Band, Eva’s interest in music brought her to Scotland as a learner of the bagpipes. After studying Multimedia Production and Electronic Publishing at Glasgow College of Building and Printing, she started her own business and freelanced as a website designer and consultant.

Eva is also Chair of the Merchant City Festival and a trustee of Glasgow City Heritage Trust.

As one of the youngest women to serve with Glasgow City Council, Holly is Vice-Chair of the Council’s Environment and Liveable Neighbourhoods Committee.

Holly is a feminist activist, who played a key part in the 2021 Young Women Lead research report – Glasgow: A Feminist City? She passed her Feminist City motion in October 2022, committing the Council to embed a feminist town planning approach into its city development plan.

Holly is passionate about ensuring culture and sport are accessible to people who are often excluded. She is particularly interested in helping remove barriers for women, non-binary and trans people participating in sport.

For the last 18 years Anita has turned her attention to risk management, governance, strategy and planning in the financial services industry.

Anita brings a wealth of experience as well as huge enthusiasm for the work Glasgow Life does to improve the lives of the people of Glasgow and an insatiable desire to promote equality, accessibility and opportunities for all.

Experienced in leading change in large-scale organisations and having led three successful start-ups, Iain has a track record in helping people and businesses realise their potential.

After setting up his charity in Glasgow in 2006, Iain developed and led MCR Pathways’ mentoring programme. With staff in every Glasgow secondary school supporting over 1,500 disadvantaged young people each week, the successful model is now being embedded in the national education system.

Siobhan has also been heavily involved, over many years, with Citizen Advice Edinburgh as an advisor and activist in helping save bureaus from closure.

These experiences have made her a passionate advocate of empowering individuals and communities to better their lives through active local engagement. She and her husband, Sandy, set up a family foundation in 2019 to support various philanthropic causes.

He became an ICAS Chartered Accountant with PwC, gaining a wealth of experience over the past 25 years as a senior leader in finance and commercial roles, which have taken him across Europe and Australia.

Having gained experience within fast-moving consumer goods, financial services, aviation and real estate, Shahid honed his expertise with notable blue chip and SME organisations Pernod Ricard, Baxters Food Group, AGS Airports, RBS and Ageas Insurance. His key strengths include managing complex financial and commercial operations; major capital investment; restructuring; income generation; and cost efficiency.

Before joining the university, Lynn was a director with Audit Scotland. She is also a board member of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator where she chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. In her spare time, Lynn is a regular audience member of Glasgow Life’s events.

Glen previously held leadership positions across several high-profile drinks industry brands, including as Marketing Director for The Macallan brand at Edrington, and Marketing and International Sales Director for Whyte and Mackay. Glen is committed to helping guide our charity to inspire every citizen and visitor to become engaged and active in a city globally renowned for culture and sport. He brings a wealth of experience, having worked across a broad spectrum of corporate and blue-chip businesses, including BP Oil and Mars Confectionary.