Jackie has represented Dumbarton Constituency since 1999 when the Parliament was first created. Prior to this she worked both in the public and voluntary sector most recently as a Community Economic Development Manager for a local authority. 

Following the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, she served as Deputy Minister for Communities under then First Minister Donald Dewar, before being promoted to Social Justice Minister.

After the May 2007 Scottish Parliament elections Jackie returned to Labour’s front benches as Shadow Minister for Parliamentary Business. In 2008 she was appointed to a newly created position as Labour’s Chief of Staff in the Scottish Parliament before becoming Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy in 2009.

Jackie has also since taken on roles as Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Equalities and Welfare and spokesperson for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work. She was also the first woman to take on the role of Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance.

In 2020, she became Deputy Leader of Scottish Labour and is now Health, Social Care and COVID Recovery spokesperson.

Graeme Downie is Founder and Director of Crimson Bridge Communications, a public affairs and strategic communications company based in Fife. He has worked in communications for over twenty years, building strategic campaigns for organisations to educate, influence and help deliver their agenda.

He was previously a Director at Orbit Communications and Head of Communications in Scotland & Northern Ireland for innovation charity, Nesta and has worked in consultancy in London and Brussels.

Graeme has worked across a broad range of sectors including charities, food & drink, transport, construction, housing, health and energy.

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemedownie/ 

Prior to establishing Baccus Consulting, Lynda was Head of External Affairs at Pfizer with responsibility for all aspects of External Affairs for Scotland and Northern Ireland. During her ten years with Pfizer, Lynda managed a number of highly successful partnership relationships and sought to identify new approaches to policy development in her field. She has obtained considerable experience in managing issues and corporate change.

Before working in the pharmaceutical sector with Pfizer, Lynda spent twenty years in the NHS as a nurse and a manager and three years as Regional Manager of the Institute of Health Services Managers (now Institute of Healthcare Managers) and has a strong working knowledge of the NHS and the public sector, its successes and challenges.

Andrew Henderson joined Pinsent Masons in 2016, before which he was Head of Public Affairs and External Relations at a new challenger bank being created from within one of the UK’s largest financial services companies.

Andrew has over 20 years’ experience in the public policy and strategic communications industry, operating across Edinburgh, London and the UK regions, and has advised a broad range of major PLCs, SMEs, third sector, and other organisations on their dealings with government, media and other influential stakeholders.

Educated in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, Andrew also has an MBA and is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).
Formerly a board member of Citizens Advice Edinburgh, and the Rock Trust, Andrew currently sits on the board of Edinburgh World Heritage.

Andy has 20 years of experience in political campaigns, professional services PR and, since co-founding Message Matters, in consultancy.

His expertise is in strategic communications, helped by long-standing relationships across the political spectrum and throughout the media. He is also a regular independent political commentator on the BBC and STV, and in the press.

The corridors of power are as familiar to Colin as his native Falkirk, having worked at both Holyrood and Westminster.  He is a shrewd political operator who enjoys the strategic planning that places Pagoda's clients in front of the right people. He understands the complexities of influence and how to weave them seamlessly for the best result.

Fiona joined the Scottish Parliament in 2005, working across roles in the Committee and Chamber offices. Fiona has been part of the Lobbying Register Team for the past five years, recently taking on the role of Communications and Compliance Support Manager.

Lynda is director of public law within our Litigation division based in Edinburgh.

Lynda has spent most of her career with the Scottish Government, advising on public law issues. She has been involved in instructing and drafting legislation and has had considerable experience in public sector litigation in courts in Scotland and across the UK. She specialised in judicial review challenges, planning and other statutory appeals and in general reparation.

Lynda spent 8 years as Solicitor to the Scottish Parliament where she advised the Presiding Officer, the Chief Executive and the Committees of the Parliament on matters of legislative competence and on wider issues of public law. Lynda has a significant breadth of understanding of public and constitutional law issues in Scotland, of related litigation and of the policy and process surrounding law and decision making.

Michael P Clancy OBE WS graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1979 with an LLB and in 1985 with an LLM. In 1987 he graduated LLB (Hons) from the University of London. He is a solicitor and Notary Public. After qualification as a solicitor in private practice he had attained a partnership with the Glasgow firm of Franchi Wright & Co. He resigned this partnership in 1988 to become a Deputy Secretary of the Law Society of Scotland. Since 1996 he has been a Director of the Society with responsibility for Law Reform. He is secretary of the United Kingdom and Ireland Notarial Forum and is chairman of the International Bar Association’s Constitution and Governance Committee. Following the EU Referendum, he has represented the Law Society of Scotland on Brexit issues in the UK and Scottish Parliaments, appearing several times before parliamentary committees on a range of issues concerning the UK’s departure from the EU. He is a member of the International (formerly Brexit) Law Committee established by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice of England. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours List in June 2002.