Ewan Wallace
Chair of SCOTS Climate Change Steering Group, SCOTSEwan Wallace is a Chief Officer at Aberdeenshire Council. He is the immediate Past Chair of SCOTS, a member of the UK Network Management Board, past President of the Aberdeen Association of Civil Engineers and a member of ICE and CIHT. In his career within Government since 1990 he has been fortunate enough to play a part in numerous projects and initiatives from works on the River Spey through to the economic case for AWPR, securing a City Region Deal for Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire, leading on collaborative working across Northern Roads Authorities and delivering a new station in Kintore.
In 2022 he took on the role of Head of Environment and Sustainability at the Council and will apply his approach of science into action to this new role. In this new service he leads for the Council on Waste Management, Landscape Services, Transportation, Passenger Transport, Environmental Planning and Climate Change/Sustainability. In his role as the Past Chair of SCOTS, he Chairs the new Climate Change Steering Group for the Society. He is a proud North East Loon who is blessed with a lovely wife and two young daughters who have to treat every holiday like a site visit.