February 2008 to date Ian is Head of Scottish Resilience, previously known as the Fire and Civil Contingencies Division;
June 2004 became head of the Civil Contingencies Division in the Scottish Executive Justice Department – this became the Fire and Civil Contingencies Division in August 2005;
Following promotion to the Senior Civil Service Ian was the first head of the new Scottish Cabinet Secretariat in the Scottish Executive and then had a spell as Director of Corporate Development;
May 1997 - After spending his first 3½ years in Scotland in the Education Department advising Ministers on Higher Education funding he moved to the newly formed Constitution Group where he worked on the Scotland Act and on establishing the new devolution settlement.
October 1993 – Ian moved to Edinburgh to join the Scottish Office.
Civil Service Career began in Whitehall in the late 1980s at the Department for Education and Science. This included a spell as private secretary to a Minister for State.
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