Lawyer Alastair Morrison has been appointed chairman of the board of the Centre for the Moving Image.
The parent organisation of Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse, Edinburgh and Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen said Mr Morrison brings significant experience in strategy development and organisational growth and is currently partner and head of client strategy with Pinsent Masons.
He is said to be "highly influential and known industry-wide for his approach to innovation", and his ability to challenge and mobilise others to think differently.
In 2019 he was recognised by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards Europe as the "Most Innovative Lawyer in Europe".
Mr Morrison is also a frequent speaker on sustainability and what the legal industry can do to be more active in the climate change agenda.
He recently called on the legal industry to unite to pledge a million hours to help prevent climate change and reduce biodiversity loss.
Mr Morrison said: “I am delighted to have been offered this opportunity to chair CMI at such an exciting and important stage of its development. I look forward to working with the CEO, Ken Hay, the rest of the CMI team, and my fellow trustees over the coming years to realise the undoubted potential of CMI and its contribution to Scotland.”
Atholl Duncan, chair of the appointment panel, said: “The board enthusiastically welcomes Alastair Morrison as its new chair. Alastair brings a wealth of experience to bring to the CMI and its work. We are very much looking forward to him joining us.”
The Centre for the Moving Image is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.
Energy giant creates 135 green jobs for Scotland
ScottishPower has revealed plans to create 152 “green jobs”, 135 of them in central and southern Scotland.
Scottish craft brewer launches beer priced at £25 per bottle
Edinburgh's Innis & Gunn has unveiled a limited-edition beer that has been six years in the making, the longest the brewer has matured any beer to date.
If you have been forwarded this article and would like to sign up, or view our new range of newsletters, click below:
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here