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GCHT team & board members.  From L to R: Helen Kendrick, Robin Webser, Michael Gale, Christine Jess, Eddie Tait, Morag MacDonald-Simpson, Hanzala Malik, Gordon Urquhart, Torsten Haak, Magdalena Kania.

Board of Directors:

Bailie Hanzala Malik, chair

Bailie Malik is a manager with several years of diverse commercial experience in the retail & wholesale service industry.  He is also skilled in the specification and design of IT systems for management information.  He holds computing and business qualifications from University of Paisley and has been councillor for Glasgow City Council for thirteen years.  He has served as Convener of Pre-5 Education, Life long learning, Development and Regeneration Services, Glasgow & Clyde Valley Stricter Plan joint Committee and is currently Executive Member of International Links, Chair of West Community Health and Care Partnership, Glasgow Heritage, West of Scotland Racial Equality Council and others, working to develop industry in Glasgow.

Michael Gale, Treasurer

Michael is a Chartered Surveyor with thirty years experience in the property industry in a wide variety of roles. He has the RICS Dip in Bldg Conservation and been involved in a considerable number of conservation projects and served on a number of committees, including, the Steering Group of Stanley Mills Perthshire and Brechin THI Project Support Group. Micael worked for Scottish Enterprise from 1991- 2009, gaining a wide range of experience leading and supporting a broad range of large and small, commercial and non-commercial projects. His particular strengths lie in project management and the assembly and appraisal of project funding.

Christine Jess M.A., Adv. Dip. Ed. Man. D.C.E.

Christine was born and brought up in the city of Glasgow.  She has had involvement with the historic built environment through her work with a leading environmental charity and was responsible for developing education programmes for young people and communities, including the development of two heritage trails.  With a master’s degree in management, she has a particular interest in building successful organisations and utilises her skills as a business coach to promote effective working practices. In addition to her role as a trustee of the city’s Heritage Trust, she is a UK Government Ambassador for promoting diverstiy in public appointments.

Eddie Tait

 

Dr Morag Macdonald Simpson CBE, vice chair

A barrister by profession, Morag Macdonald Simpson brings to the Trust a wide range of business and public sector expertise, having been company secretary of Girobank and of the Post Office Group, where she was a member of the executive board. She has also had non-executive director experience as a Management Committee member of the Industry and Parliament Trust and as a board member of St George’s Hospital Medical School. Her current roles as Chairman of the Adamson Trust, a Perthshire-based charity, and as Secretary of the Friends of Innerpeffray Library provide further trustee and historic interest experience.

Bailie Catherine McMaster

Catherine has been a Councillor for 12 years and has worked in Education, Development & Regeneration and Roads & Environmental Services. Her local service has been as a member of the Social Inclusion Partnership in Greater Easterhouse, and as Chair of Local Community Planning Partnership for Baillieston, Shettleston and Greater Easterhouse. Catherine’s special interest has been with Historic Glasgow, developed from the local history and archaeology strategy (which she chairs). She is delighted to serve on the Board of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, furthering the conservation and richness of the built heritage in the City for the future.

Brian A Park BSc (Hons) BArch FRIAS

Brian is a founding partner of Page \ Park Architects based in Glasgow
where he studied Architecture at Strathclyde University. In addition to
having the role as managing partner, he has a particular focus on
conservation and historic building work, being an accredited conservation
architect at the highest level under the RIAS Accreditation Scheme. In
addition to his role with Glasgow City Heritage Trust (where he currently
chairs the Grants Committee), he is a member of the RIAS Conservation
Committee and a past Convenor of both the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society
and Glasgow Conservation Trust West.

 

Professor Robin Webster OBE

Robin is a partner in the Glasgow firm of Cameron Webster Architects, and professor emeritus at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, where he was head of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture for twenty years. There he led research on the stone cleaning of historic buildings. He is Secretary of the Walmer Crescent Association, Chairman of The Alexander Thomson Society and a trustee of the Scottish Stained Glass Symposium.

 

Glasgow City Heritage Trust team:

Torsten Haak, Director

Torsten is from Hamburg, Germany, where he worked as a cabinetmaker before studying for a Diploma in Architecture and Town Planning first at Hamburg University and finally at Edinburgh College of Art. A two-year stint in Japan as an English teacher followed before he returned to Scotland to study for a MSc in European Urban Conservation at Dundee University. After a period as the Buildings Adviser for the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust and five years managing the Arbroath Townscape Heritage Initiative regeneration scheme, he started his work as Director of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust in May 2007. Since 2004 Torsten has been a member of the ICOMOS-UK Executive and World Heritage Committees and became the chair of ICOMOS-UK International Affairs Liaison Committee in 2008.

Gordon Urquhart, Grants Officer

Gordon was born in New York City. He first returned to his father’s native Scotland in 1979 to study Scottish History as an exchange student at King’s College, Aberdeen. Between taking a BA in History at Hamilton College, New York and an MSc in Architectural Conservation at Columbia University, he lived and worked in Edinburgh’s New Town. In 1988, he left New York and settled in the West End of Glasgow. For fifteen years he was Assistant Director with the Glasgow West Conservation Trust, during which time he co-wrote The West End Conservation Manual. Gordon has written and lectured widely on traditional building technology, architectural conservation and local history. In 2000 he published Along Great Western Road, the first comprehensive history of the West End of Glasgow.

Helen Kendrick, Communications and Projects Officer

Helen’s background is in museums and galleries and she worked in public and commercial art institutions in Bristol, Brighton and London before relocating to Glasgow in 2004. Here she developed her interest in Glasgow’s turn-of-the-century architecture and design through working on a research and conservation project for the Mackintosh-designed Ingram St Tearoom collection for Glasgow Museums. She then moved to The Lighthouse as Education Co-Ordinator for the Six Cities Design Festival and has been with the Glasgow City Heritage Trust since 2007.

Magdalena Kania, Office Administrator

Magdalena is from Poland, where she worked for international companies dealing with Human Resources and People Management and studied for a Master’s degree in Marketing and Management in Katowice, Silezia.  In 2009 she came to Scotland, working for IBM as a Software Administrator and studying for a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management at Caledonian University. She joined Glasgow City Heritage Trust in January 2010.