Liz Cameron (Councillor)

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right Bailie Liz Cameron: bonne vivante at the city's expense

A Member of Glasgow City Council since 1992 and Councillor for Garscadden/Scotstounhill, Bailie Elizabeth Cameron is a member of the Scottish Labour Party.


Cultural Interests

As Deputy Convener of Arts and Culture (1995-98) and Convener of Culture and Leisure Services (1998-2003), she has been in a position to infleunce a wide range of cultural organisations including the Scottish Arts Council (of which she has been a member since 2002), National Galleries of Scotland (Trustee 2002-6) and Glasgow Film Theatre (President).[1] She has been a vocal campaigner on behalf of Glasgow's museums, advocating their national status, and involving herself in the Kelvingrove Refurbishment Appeal Trust.

In March 2007, Cameron was appointed as Chair of the Board of Culture and Sport Glasgow. As such, her thinking largely coincides with that of its Executive Director, Bridget McConnell and the pair often travel together.


Bonne Vivante

Liz Cameron travels the world at Glasgow's expense. From 2003 to 2007, she was Lord Provost and Lord-Lieutenant of Glasgow, during which time she racked up 'travel expenses of £60,000, 11 times the amount spent by her counterpart in Edinburgh, Lesley Hinds. ... The lord provost’s travels included an indispensable trip to New York for its Tartan Day celebrations, at a cost of £17,000. A visit to Sri Lanka after the tsunami racked up another £12,000, though ironically its purpose was to see how relief money raised in Glasgow was being spent.' [2] It would seem that Cameron's luxury travel habits have persisted as part of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games team. As part of a lavish delegation to Melbourne led by Derek Casey, Liz cost the taxpayer £1,877.[3]


Glasgow the Brand

Capitalising on her civic pride, Cameron is remunerated for her work as Vice Chair of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau - the agency responsible for coining the term 'Glasgow: Scotland with Style' and for developing Glasgow's tourism strategy [4]

Liz is also paid for her work as Vice Chair of Glasgow Cultural Enterprises.


Non-Financial Interests

Highly networked, Liz Cameron declares the following non-financial interests:

Board member Hutcheson Grammar School
Board member RSNO Chorus Trust
Chair: Culture and Sport Glasgow
Chair: Scottish Baroque Ensemble
Concert Hall Vice Chair GCE
Doctor of Glasgow's three universities, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian
Hon Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
Member of Jazz Festival Board
Member of National Youth Choir Board
Member of the Board of Westbourne Music
Member the Museums Association United Kingdom
Member: Arches Theatre Co.
Member: City of Unesco Steering Group
Member: Glasgow Film Theatre
Member: Les Rencontres European Cultural Network
Member: North Glasgow College Board
Member: Scottish International Piano Competition
Member: Si Tous Les Ports du Monde
Patron of the Glasgow Celtic Society (for the promotion of Gaelic language and Culture)

On the Register of Councillors' Interests, she declares 'my husband, Duncan F. Cameron, is a Partner of a firm of Educational Consultants, C.M. Associates. It is not without the bounds of possibility that he will, through his company, tender for work that may be local government related.'[5]


Fluent in three languages, Liz Cameron was made an officer of the Orde des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's leading cultural decorations, in 2006. [6]


Notes

  1. Who's Who 2008. A&C Black, London, p. 365.
  2. Fiona McCade Restless Native: If they’re game arrest themFiona McCade The Sunday Times 22 January 2006 (accessed 6/2/08)
  3. Paul Drury ‘First-class travel and 5-star hotels ...the true cost of winning Games’ Mail on Sunday (London) 16 March, 2008
  4. C. Landry (ed) Glasgow: The People, The Place, The Potential. Glasgow’s Cultural Strategy, Glasgow City Council Cultural and Leisure Services, 2006 (accessed 11 February 2008).
  5. Register of Councillors' Interests (accessed 2 March 2008)
  6. BBC, Lord Provost Honoured by France, 6 July 2006.