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Jean Couper
Chairman Scottish Legal Aid Board |
Jean Couper is Chairman of the Scottish Legal Aid Board having been appointed to that position in 1998. She was a member of the Board from 1994 to 1998. Also she is currently a member of the Police Advisory Board for Scotland and the Accounts Commission.
She was a member, and latterly Vice-Chairman, of the Health Education Board for Scotland from 1994 to 2001 and she was Vice-Chairman of the Wise Group and Heatwise Glasgow Limited from 1987 to 1996.
After graduating from Glasgow University in 1974 with a BSc in Mathematics and Computing she spent several years in the engineering and textile industries as a Production and Systems Manager. Thereafter she spent 15 years working as a Management Consultant with Arthur Young and then Price Waterhouse managing multi disciplinary teams specialising in systems integration, IT strategies, re-engineering projects and organisational development.
Since 1995 she has run her own Management Consultancy business providing services to the e-business, software and financial services sectors, particularly in areas of organisational development, recruitment and skills development and programme management.