Eileen Mackay

Eileen Alison Mackay is a Scottish civil servant who worked in the Scottish Office, especially as their Principal Finance Director from 1992 until her retirement in 1996. Since then, she has worked in non-executive roles in the non-profit sector, including for the British Library, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Enterprise and in the courts of the University of Edinburgh and the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Biography Eileen Alison Mackay, the daughter of Alison Jack (née Ross) and Alexander William Mackay, was born on 7 July 1943 in Helmsdale, a village in eastern Sutherland where she was later raised. She has also been a board member for the British Library, Scottish Enterprise Lothian and Edinburgh, and Scottish Screen, a non-executive director of Moray Firth Maltings, a trustee for the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, and chair of the David Hume Institute. She has also served as part of the University of Edinburgh Court. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute, Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.