MacRoberts partner becomes Glasgow Chamber of Commerce president

MacRoberts partner Neil Amner has become president of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.

Mr Amner specialises in transport, environmental and parliamentary lawyers, and is placing transport and connectivity among the priorities for his two year term.

He succeeds Vic Emery, former chair of the Scottish Police Authority. His deputy will be Jim McHarg, head of learning and HR business partner at Weir Group plc.

At its AGM, Glasgow Chamber also appointed two new board members, Amanda McMillan, managing director of Glasgow Airport and chief executive of AGS Airports Ltd, and Isabella Miller, head of branch at John Lewis Partnership Glasgow. They will serve alongside Mr Emery, STV’s HR and communications director Suzanne Burns, Holdfast Entertainment Group director Brian Fulton and City of Glasgow College principal and chief executive Paul Little.

Three new directors on the Chamber's ruling council are Scott McKerracher, Bank of Scotland’s senior manager for Glasgow and the West of Scotland; Andrew Sime, IBM’s Scotland Enterprise business director and Gerry O’Donnell, Edrington’s corporate affairs director.

Mr Amner commented: “I am excited to become Chamber president, and impressed by the additions to our board and ruling council. They join us at a time of major development for the Chamber, where we will focus on increasing our influence as a delivery and policy partner in championing Glasgow and achieving the aims and objectives of the city’s economic strategy. The new board members and directors bring their wide experience as senior players with some of the city’s most important companies and organisations, to augment the expertise that already we have in our existing members.

“Over the next two years I can promise that we will be continuously improving the value of membership via campaigning on important policy issues such as transport and connectivity on behalf of members, a programme of business events and networking including our Glasgow Talks influencer events, exporting and international trade support, affinity schemes, training and workforce development and much more.”