David is currently the Chief Executive of Lothian Pension Fund, the local government pension scheme for the City of Edinburgh, the three Lothian councils and 68 other employers. David’s previous roles include being Chief Finance Officer and Chief Risk Officer at Police Mutual and a Financial Services Partner at KPMG.

David started his career at Scottish Amicable and has also worked at both AXA and HBOS. David has extensive Board experience in his recent roles and has advised banks, insurance companies and asset managers on corporate governance, risk and regulation.

He is looking forward to bringing this experience to bear and support the Pension Board and SPPA in the oversight and administration of the NHS Scotland pensions.

I have been an employee of NHS Lanarkshire for the past 33 years.

I have been a steward with the RCN in Lanarkshire for 15 years, which includes a period of 18 months as an officer.

I have also held a variety of Governance and Partnership roles both locally in NHS Lanarkshire, Nationally and within the RCN in Scotland.

These include 10 years on RCN Scottish Board, currently I am the Chair person. I am the National Staff Side lead for volunteering in NHS Scotland. Within Lanarkshire I am the NHSL Staff Side Chair for the South IJB, former chair of the HRF and a member of the Joint Policy Forum. I am also the staff side lead for Job Evaluation in Lanarkshire.

Elected representative of BMA at both Scottish and UK level for 20 years. Deputy to BMA pensions committee for 5 years.

Actively involved in lobbying on pensions at both Scottish and UK level for last 2 years, including meetings at Scottish and UK Parliaments around NHS Pension scheme, scheme financing and pensions taxation.

Raymond is a lead for Pensions in both his role as a Unison Representative and Partnership facilitator for NHS Tayside, sitting on a number of key strategic groups within Health i.e. Staff Governance, performance and recourses and Endowments advisory Group.

He is also an attendee on NHS Tayside Board, a Non-Voting Member of Dundee Integrated Joint Board and Co-Chair of the Health and Social Care Partnership Forum with the Chief Officer for Dundee.

David McColl is the Chair of the Scottish Dental Practice Committee, Chair of the Area Dental Committee of Greater Glasgow and Clyde LDC and Vice Chair of the GP sub-committee of Greater Glasgow and Clyde Local Dental Committee. He is also the Scottish representative on the BDA Pensions Committee. He is a practice owner and runs a busy NHS practice in Govanhill in Glasgow.

Yvonne is National Officer (Scotland) for the Society of Radiographers and maintains a strong and active interest in the Scottish NHS Pension Scheme, particularly as she leads on pensions for SoR members in Scotland. 

A former Solicitor and Assistant General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Yvonne acted as secretary to the STUC Pension Board. It was in that capacity that she developed skills and knowledge in the operation and regulation of occupational pensions, undertaking pensions modules with the Pensions Regulator.