Mr Edward Cunningham FRSE

Retired

Edward Cunningham was educated at Cambridge and the Harvard Business School. He has worked in the civil service and in industry. He joined the World Bank in 1968 and subsequently was involved in the setting up of the Scottish Development, where he was Director of Industry and Enterprise. Subsequently, he was involved in venture capital through investment companies, as an investor on his own account, as a director or chairman of start-up and early-stage enterprises and as a consultant.
He has been Chairman of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre and on the Boards of TSB Bank Scotland, Watson & Philip and Dynamic Earth Enterprises. He has chaired five companies for 3is.
For the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he served on the Council and was its Treasurer from 2004 to 2008, then became Convenor of the RSE Enterprise Fellowship Scheme from 2008 to 2020.

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