Professor Jeff Maxwell

Professor Jeff Maxwell, Agricultural Graduate of Edinburgh University (1965), PhD (1970), worked first for the Scottish Agricultural College as a specialist Animal Production Adviser and Lecturer; then the Hill Farming Research Organisation as Head of Animal Production, and then as Director of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute from 1987-2000. During his career he has been a member and Chair of various Committees, most recently since retirement Chairman of the SEERAD Agricultural and Environment Working Group (2001-2002) producing 'Custodians of Change'; member of the Agricultural, Environment and Biotechnology Commission; Independent Chairman of the Tenant Farming Forum; Member of the Royal Society's Inquiry into Foot and Mouth Disease in Scotland; Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Inquiry into the Future of Scotland's Hill and Island Areas; member of the National Trust for Scotland Independent Review of Mar Lodge Estate; member of the Forestry Commission's Woodland Expansion Advisory Group (Scotland); adviser to the Scottish Government's Land Reform Review Group.