Ron Macdonald retired from SNH in 2015 after 27 years of service. He was SNH’s Head of Policy & Advice and before that served as an Area Officer and Area Manager. He chaired the Scottish National Reintroduction Forum from 2011-2015, the Scottish Wildcat Project up to 2014 and was joint chair of Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrel Project, from its start until 2014.
He is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University, a Trustee of the Macaulay Development Trust and Chairperson of the North East Biological Recording Centre (NESBReC).
He has a keen interest in land use management, local and user community engagement, species management and more recently marine resource management.