MARGARET COOK
Margaret Cook was appointed as Chair of the Glasgow Colleges' Regional Board by the Scottish Government, for the period 1 February, 2016 to 31 January, 2020.
Margaret Cook is a Human Resource specialist with extensive experience in the higher education sector, having spent the last 20 years as HR Director at Bell College, Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh Napier University. She now runs her own Human Resources and Organisation Development Consultancy, successfully catering for both public and private sector clients.
Margaret served on the Board of Cumbernauld College for 8 years, as Chair of the Resources and General Purposes Committee and Vice Chair of the Board. She then served on the Merger Steering Committee which oversaw the merger of three colleges to create New College Lanarkshire and was a member of the Lanarkshire Board where she was Chair of Resources and General Purposes Committee. She is a member of the Board for the First Scottish Universities Credit Union.