Globe-trotter takes up new trustee role

Nicola Gordon has been appointed to the Board of Trustees for Arts & Business Scotland.

She is a director of Edinburgh Printmakers, the Scottish Oil Club and Chair of the Strategy Advisor Board at Heriot-Watt University’s Institute of Petroleum Engineering,

Nicola has almost 40 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, working across the globe and leading teams in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark.

The body which she now joins, Arts & Business Scotland, acts as a conduit between the cultural and business sectors, encouraging creativity and cultural engagement north of the Border.

The charity recently launched their Culture & Business Fund Scotland, a pioneering new initiative which aims to encourage greater partnership working between business, arts and heritage by match funding private sector sponsorship of cultural activities pound for pound.

Nicola said: “I am looking forward to working with people from both the cultural and business sectors and to being part of a community engaged in nurturing these creative, social and commercial relationships.”