Our Board

Abigail is an experienced CFO with global investment management experience and now has a portfolio career comprising interim executive and non-executive appointments. Abigail is a lay member of the Admissions and Nominations Committees of The Law Society of Scotland. Abigail is a Scottish Chartered Accountant who has lived and worked in Eastern Europe, and has worked for KPMG, Scottish Widows, Christian Salvesen and Franklin Templeton Investments. She brings extensive experience in finance, governance, risk management and organisational leadership.

Andrea Westall is a sustainability strategist, policy advisor and political economist. She is also a senior fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Andrea mixes thought leadership, policy innovation and practical implementation with over 30+ years in executive leadership, board, and advisory roles – integrating sustainability, social justice, governance, long-term thinking, participation, wellbeing and economics at local, national and international levels.

Examples include: trusted advisor to the UK Government; co-author of the UK’s Social Value standard; Commissioner in the independent Commission on Sustainable Equality for the EU Parliament; playing a lead role in establishing the UK’s social enterprise sector; and a founding partner of one of the UK’s first social/impact investment funds.

Claire is a public servant and creative entrepreneur recognised for her work in leading Liverpool’s cultural and visitor economy offer. Over her 25-year career, she has received awards such as the Innovation in Business Award and Woman of the Year Award. Claire is an expert in culturally led regeneration, supporting cities across the country and world.

Most recently, she delivered Eurovision in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine.  

David is chair of Carnegie UK. David’s charity experience includes as a former CEO of the Association of Charitable Foundations for 15 years; as chair of three UK foundations and charities; with earlier work for NCVO and other charities.

Other professional experience includes rural community work, theatrical administration in the West End, and leading the management association for the UK’s regional theatres.    

Laura is a founding director of ConnectFutures and an advocate of whole community approaches to social challenges. Laura is an experienced researcher and evaluator, specialising in engaging participants from underserved backgrounds, communicating her findings with a wide range of audiences including government, corporate, third sector and community organisations.

She holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool. 

Ruth is a fundraising professional with over a decade of experience securing gifts and building partnerships at University of Oxford colleges, the University of Edinburgh, and, most recently, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

She has served on the Board of Trustees for the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust since 2021. 

Mohammad is the director of economic policy at the CBI with over a decade of experience as a public policy economist. He leads the CBI’s work on tax, regulations, and economic policy development in the UK.

Before this, Mohammad set up CBI Economics, a consultancy primarily focused on bridging the gap between businesses and government. Mohammed has also worked for PwC, HM Treasury and UK Finance.  

Duncan Morrow is professor in politics at Ulster University where he is currently also director of community engagement.

Duncan was appointed as a sentence review commissioner in 1998 responsible for implementing the early release provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. For ten years, Duncan was chief executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council. He also chaired Ministerial advisory groups on Sectarianism and on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion for the Scottish Government. 

Rachel is the owner and director of Home Instead, a home care company based in Fife. As a champion of person-centred care, she strives to improve the lives of others.

Rachel has more than 30 years’ experience working in both the public and private sector. In 2015, she took on the role of head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing at Strathclyde University and gained an MBA with distinction in 2022. Rachel is a trustee of the Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trust. 

Trewin leads Sizzle, a new initiative looking at how to bring organisations together to make it as easy as possible for people to live greener lifestyles. Trewin is known for being the Founder of Hubbub UK which transforms the way environmental messages are communicated by uniting people and organisations as a force for good. Hubbub has twice won Charity of the Year and Trewin was recognised with a Global Leader of the Year award. In 2021, he won the Business Green ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ and in 2022 voted by peers as the most influential person in the UK’s recycling and resource sector.

He sits on Tetra Pak’s Global Sustainability Advisory Panel and is an advisor to the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and the National Lottery Climate Fund.