Sandy Bremner
- Appointment term: May 2023 - May 2027
- Appointed via Scottish Minister
- Committee membership: Governance, Performance and Resources Committees
- Committee Convener: Cairngorms National Park Authority Board, Governance Committee
- External representation – Not applicable
Sandy Bremner is Chair of the River Dee Trust, working with land managers, conservation organisations, and the people who live and work in the Cairngorms National Park, to deliver one of the biggest nature-restoration projects in the Cairngorms.
He has a strong focus on working with communities, and a determination that nature and people should thrive at a time of major challenges for both.
Sandy’s work on nature conservation follows a career as an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, living in north east Scotland. He has a passionate interest in how policies affect people and nature in rural areas. Sandy led a successful campaign to enhance national grant aid for river restoration projects to help ecosystems and communities.
He has experience as a negotiator at national and international level on media-freedom issues. His overseas work has included advising Myanmar’s state broadcaster on the transition from dictatorship and helping to free jailed journalists in Turkey.
In his free time, Sandy is a keen fly-fisher, hillwalker and lover of contemporary and traditional music.
Get in touch
You can contact the Park Authority board by emailing [email protected] or calling 01479 873 535. Please note that board members are not able to respond on live planning matters.
Register of interests:
Category 1: Remuneration
- None
Category 2: Other roles
- None
Category 3: Contracts
- None
Category 4: Election expenses
- None
Category 5: Houses, land and buildings
- None
Category 6: Interest in shares and securities
- None
Category 7: Gifts and hospitality
- None
Category 8: Non-financial interests
- Trustee and Director - The River Dee Trust
- Member - Mountaineering Scotland
- Member - Aberdeen and Shire Hillwalking Club
- Member - The International Press Institute
- Member - St Andrew’s Society of Aberdeen
- Member - Mesolithic Deeside
- Member - The Baillies of Bennachie
- Save the Spring Programme - steering group member of programme involving the River Dee Trust, Dee District Salmon Fishery Board and Atlantic Salmon Trust.
Category 9: Close family members
- None
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