The Scottish Government's independent advisory body on sustainable development
Commissioners
Jan Bebbington
Professor Jan Bebbington was appointed as the Sustainable Development Commission's Vice-Chair (Scotland) in July 2006. She has worked in the universities of Dundee and Aberdeen before taking up a chair in Accounting and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews. She is also the Director of the St Andrews Sustainability Institute. Her research interests focus around the themes of corporate reporting on sustainable development, full cost accounting and modelling as well as governance for sustainable development.
Professor Bebbington has worked with many organisations who are seeking to model their sustainable development impacts and to transform their activities. She is also the Chair of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Committee on Social and Environmental Committee and Associate Director of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and was previously an external advisor to the Scottish Cabinet Sub-Committee on Sustainable Scotland.
Direct Pecuniary Interests
Member of external advisory group to First Group
Non Pecuniary Interests
Member of Oxfam, Amnesty International, Greenpeace and The World Development Movement
Chair of the Social and Environmental Committee Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Association
