David Jamieson

With degrees in Human Ecology, Environmental Management, and Town & Country Planning, David is a Chartered Ecologist whose career has spanned senior roles in local government, charities and academia. His principal interest is urban ecology and the interactions between people and their natural environment, advancing the cause of biodiversity within city authorities and as Director of TCV Scotland and TCV International. Having recently retired from managing the City of Edinburgh Council’s Parks & Greenspace Service and chairing the Board of Directors of Greenspace Scotland, he remains a strong advocate for environmental volunteering and community-led nature conservation. His present roles include providing biodiversity expertise to the EU’s European Green Capital and European Green Leaf programmes and when not in the city David is an enthusiastic traveller, hill walker and skier, regularly escaping to the mountains of Scotland, Europe and beyond.