Frazer Scott

CEO, Energy Action Scotland

Frazer is CEO of Energy Action Scotland. He is passionate about the social and environmental justice aspects of sustainable development. He has worked for over 20 years at a senior level with large multi-nationals, public bodies, local business, charities, social enterprise, and community bodies. He has developed and secured considerable levels of investment from public and private sector investors and led successful tenders for high profile international programmes and projects. These activities have made a positive impact on communities across Scotland and overseas. He has managed cutting edge policy and research management across a range of social, economic and environmental topics. He has authored and edited innovative work on employability in a greener economy and wellbeing as a measure of social progress. He is an advisory board member of the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Energy Policy, a Board member of National Energy Action, Utilita Giving, and Aberdeen Heat and Power.

Gillian Campbell

Co-Director, Existing Homes Alliance

The Existing Homes Alliance is a coalition of Scotland’s key housing, environmental, fuel poverty and consumer organisations calling for the right policies to tackle fuel poverty and cut climate change emissions.  Gillian has worked in the housing sector for over 25 years, with local authorities and housing associations and, for the past seven years, as an independent consultant.

Scott McAulay

Regenerative Design and Infrastructures Specialist, Fuel Poverty Action / Architype

"Scott is a member of Fuel Poverty Action with a background in sustainable architecture. As a Regenerative Design and Infrastructures Specialist at Architype – an architecture studio that extends the horizons of the possible and champions the Passivhaus standard, Scott specialises in sustainability coordination, life cycle analysis and ecological materials, most recently working on EnerPHit Informed Retrofit Plan studies for local authority schools across the U.K. As an educator, his work through the Anthropocene Architecture School – fusing climate literacy, spatial justice and the radical imagination, challenges educational and industry inertia, and has created spaces for thousands of people internationally to learn about the built environment’s intersection with the climate crisis and the dreamlike scale of the Just Transition possibilities within it. Scott was a coordinator of the Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN)’s Climate Literacy Group from 2020-2022 and was a founding member of ACAN Scotland. They’re a Co-Producer of the Architecture Fringe, a member of Living Rent – Scotland’s tenants and community union, and was part of co-creating the Retrofit Reimagined 2023 festival season across the U.K."

Bryan Leask

Chief Executive, Hjaltland Housing Association

Bryan is CEO at Hjaltland Housing Association in Shetland having started there initially as Director of Investment in 2002. Bryan is currently the Secretary for the Rural and Islands Housing Association Forum, as well as chair of the Scottish Rural and Islands Fuel Poverty Action Group. He is a qualified Domestic Energy Assessor and was a board member of Energywatch Scotland, the Gas and Electricity watchdog before its amalgamation with Consumer Focus. Bryan was also a member of the Zero Energy Social Housing Taskforce (ZEST), the Scottish Government’s New Build Heat Standard Working Group, and the New Energy Standards review working group. He is also a member of the Ofgem RTS Consumer Engagement group having participated in the Ofgem RTS summit last year.

David Speake

Lead Consultant, RTS Programme, Energy UK

David works for Engage Consulting who have supported Energy UK in all policy and programme aspects of energy metering for nearly 20 years. David is co-ordinating energy supplier engagement with partner stakeholders to help replace RTS meters before the switch off.

Ruth Boyle

Policy and Campaigns Manager, The Poverty Alliance

Ruth Boyle is the Policy and Campaigns Manager at the Poverty Alliance, Scotland’s anti-poverty network. Ruth leads on the organisation’s policy, communications and campaigns work.