Scottish Water chief appointed to delivery board for Scotland’s economic ambitions

Scottish Water’s outgoing chief executive, Douglas Millican (pictured), has been appointed as a member of the new delivery board, promised in Scotland’s National Economic Strategy, to deliver Scotland’s long term economic ambitions.

The National Strategy for Economic Transformation Delivery Board will be co-chaired by economy secretary Kate Forbes and Barry White who has held senior leadership roles in the private and public sectors including as a former chief executive of the Scottish Futures Trust.

The board, with 12 members, replaces the Enterprise and Skills Strategic Board, and has an enhanced remit to hold all partners to account for delivery of the commitments in the National Strategy. It will focus on delivery of the five key priority programmes that have been identified as having the greatest potential to deliver economic growth. These are stimulating entrepreneurship, opening new markets, increasing productivity, developing the skills needed for the decade ahead and ensuring fairer and more equal economic opportunities.