 Robert Black is the first Auditor General for Scotland, appointed under the Scotland Act which brought into being the Scottish Parliament. His statutory duty is to arrange for the audit of the expenditure of most public bodies in Scotland, including the Scottish Parliament and departments of the Scottish Executive but excluding individual local authorities, and to make reports to the Scottish Parliament. He is the accountable officer, and therefore in effect the chief executive, of Audit Scotland.
His previous post was Controller of Audit for Scotland, and his earlier career was mainly in local government. He was Chief Executive of Tayside Regional Council between 1990 and 1995, until just before its abolition. Before that, he was Chief Executive of Stirling District Council, and his earlier career was in policy planning and research with Strathclyde Regional Council and Nottinghamshire County Council.
Robert Black has an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Aberdeen, an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from Queen Margaret University College, an Honours Degree in Economics, a Masters Degree in Planning and a Masters Degree in Public Policy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.
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