Ewan is CEO of Cyrenians, a charity challenging the causes and consequences of homelessness.

A former Convener of Education and Leader of Edinburgh City Council, and CoSLA spokesperson on Education, Ewan has over 30 years’ experience in the public and third sectors.  He founded the National Prison Visitor Centre Steering Group, the Ripple Project, and two credit unions.  He is a council member of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce.  Ewan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a member of the Ripple Project Board and the Promise Oversight Board, and a member of the Scottish Government's Rapid Rehousing Transition Plans Delivery Group and National Strategy for Economic Transition Delivery Board.  He was a member of the CoSLA Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy and in 2018 he received the SCVO Charity Awards Leading Light Award.

Maree joined the SSSC in 2010 and was appointed Director of Regulation in 2015. Before joining the SSSC Maree was a litigation solicitor working in private practice. Maree is currently Acting CEO.

Eddie Follan is the Chief Officer in the Health and Social Care Team at COSLA.  Eddie has a wide range of experience in the public and third sectors.  At COSLA he was also the Chief Officer in the Children and Young People Team.  He was previously Head of Policy at Children in Scotland and also co-ordinated the Scottish Living Wage Campaign with the Poverty Alliance.  Eddie has a background in health having been a Charge Nurse in psychiatry at the Royal Edinburgh Hsopital.

Anne chaired the organising committee for ICIC15 in Edinburgh and in 2016 took up a new role as IFICs Senior Associate in Scotland. In 2017 she established an International Centre for Integrated Care, hosted by the University of the West of Scotland, as the home of IFICs collaborating centre in Scotland. Anne chairs an enthusiastic Advisory Board that brings together partners from policy, academia, health, social care, Third sector and independent sectors to oversee four workstreams:

Leadership and Education – undergraduate; Masters and accreditable CPD
Knowledge Exchange and Translation – international webinars and special interest groups
Action Research and Evaluation – with a focus on frailty, dementia and personal outcomes
System Coaching – within and beyond Scotland
In her Senior Associate role, Anne supports a wide range of IFIC Academy activities, in particular strategic leadership, system coaching, and international knowledge exchange initiatives. These include support for IFIC summer school and conferences, and coordinating the Integrated Care Matters webinar series and special interest groups on Intermediate Care, Palliative Care, Polypharmacy, and Frailty. IFIC Scotland activities champion coproduction, empowerment and the use of lived experience and personal outcomes to transform the relational aspects of integrated care.

Anne is a geriatrician, stroke physician and clinical lead for Integrated Care with over 30 years’ experience of transforming health and social care in Scotland. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), honorary professor at the University of the West of Scotland and holds honorary appointments with the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Academy. As a graduate of the founding cohort of Delivering the Future, Scotland’s national strategic clinical leadership programme 2005- 2006, she has extensive experience coaching and mentoring leaders from all sectors.

Previous national clinical leadership roles span stroke, Long Term Conditions, Healthcare Quality, Joint Improvement Team, Reshaping Care for Older People, Active and Healthy Ageing, and Multimorbidity. Anne leads a Work Package in the European Joint Action on Frailty, participates in Advisory Boards for a number of European programmes, and provides technical advice for WHO initiatives on integrated care and transformation.

Karen’s career in social care began as a paid carer and whilst hugely rewarding, she quickly became motivated by the pressures of the sector. A champion for participation and co-production, she believes in evidencing impact through outcomes for people.

Integration has been a theme of her career, having implemented the single shared assessment in an inner London Borough, and been one of the first people in the UK to have a joint funded NHS and Local Authority post, commissioning in Wiltshire. As Director of Finance, Governance and Compliance at the Prince of Wales Foundation in Washington DC, she held stewardship for a fundraising and grant-making non-profit, reporting directly to Clarence House.

As Deputy CEO of Scottish Care, she continues to shape the future of social care. Her portfolio includes reform, integration, commissioning and procurement and nursing in care. She particularly values the Scottish Care Awards where she learns of the successes of the sector and from those who effect change.

When she is not working, the ‘Ayrshire lass’ can be found on the beach with her family, letting the good sea breeze blow away the cobwebs. Her previous voluntary roles include Trustee for Milestones Trust, and Chair of the NCT Bath branch. She is currently on the committee of the Unfunded List, an international not-for-profit which supports unsuccessful fundraisers to meet their next bid, and is a Board member of Learning Network West, supporting social work education.

Sara is Chief Officer of Development at the ALLIANCE, responsible for leading and continuing to shape the vision of the organisation in partnership with the Chief Officer of Operations.

Sara is responsible for developing the strategic direction of the organisation, overseeing the ALLIANCE’s portfolio of programmes. Central to this is ensuring a strong voice for disabled people, people living with long term conditions and unpaid carers and opportunity to influence change based on their lived experiences.

Sara’s work involves working closely with ALLIANCE members, developing innovative partnerships that show how change can be achieved, and promoting the role of the third sector as a key innovator and partner in realising Scotland’s national health and wellbeing outcomes.

Since her time at the ALLIANCE Sara has had key policy roles in our health and social care integration and self management programmes.

Previously Sara has worked at Scottish Government as a researcher in the equalities and tackling poverty division and has worked in a number of frontline roles supporting people who have claimed asylum, survivors of sexual violence, and with people experiencing homelessness.