Organisational Structure

Chief Executive - Ian Jardine

Ian Jardine was born in Edinburgh and educated at the Royal High School. He has a degree in Ecology and a Doctorate in Zoology. He worked for the Scottish Office for seven years in a wide range of policy areas ranging from housing and industry to criminal justice. In the late eighties he led the Castlemilk Partnership Team as part of an initiative to regenerate deprived housing estates.

He joined the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland in 1991 as Regional Director for the North East, based in Aberdeen and continued in that role with the formation of SNH in 1992. Following the reorganisation in 1997 he moved to his previous role as Director of SNH East Area based at Battleby. He took over as Chief Executive in April 2002