Reform Scotland, established in 2008, is an Edinburgh-based think tank

Think tank

A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

, a sister organisation to the London-based right-wing, free market

Free market

A free market is a competitive market where prices are determined by supply and demand. However, the term is also commonly used for markets in which economic intervention and regulation by the state is limited to tax collection, and enforcement of private ownership and contracts...

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Think tank

A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

 Reform

Reform (think tank)

Reform is a British centre-right, liberal, think tank based in London, whose declared mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity via private sector involvement and market de-regulation. Reform describes itself as independent and non-partisan...

. However both organisations have their own separate governance and funding structures as well as different emphasis on policy.

Reform Scotland is the successor to the think tank Policy Institute (1999–2008). The think tank is independent and has former MSPs from each of Scotland's four main political parties sitting on its Advisory Board.

Reform Scotland is a company limited by guarantee (No SC336414) and a Scottish charity (No SC039624) funded by individuals, charitable trusts, companies and organisations that share its aims.

Key Members of Staff

• Geoff Mawdsley, Director (Scottish Conservative candidate for Stirling in the 2001 General election and was the party's chief political adviser for 8 years).
• Alison Payne (née Miller), research director (Scottish Conservative candidate for the 2007 City Council election in Edinburgh, former political adviser to Annabel Goldie).
• Helen Robertson, External Relations Consultant

Advisory Board

• Ben Thomson, Chairman
• Wendy Alexander
  Wendy Alexander
  Wendy Alexander is a Scottish politician and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley North. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the leader of the Labour Party group in the Scottish Parliament from 2007-2008...
  
  , the former leader of the Scottish Labour Party
• Jim Mather, former SNP
  SNP
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   MSP and Scottish Government Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism;
• Derek Brownlee
  Derek Brownlee
  Derek Brownlee is a Scottish accountant and politician, who is a former Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland Region .-Background:...
  
  , former Scottish Conservative finance spokesman;
• Jeremy Purvis
  Jeremy Purvis
  Jeremy Purvis is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and was MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale from 2003 to 2011.-Background:...
  
  , former Scottish Liberal Democrats
  Scottish Liberal Democrats
  The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the federal Liberal Democrats; the others being the Welsh Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England...
  
  economy and finance spokesman
• Dan Macdonald
• Martin Gilbert
• Alex Hammond-Chambers
• Lesley Knox
• Professor Sir Donald MacKay
• David Milne OBE, FRAE, FRSE
• Keith Skeoch
• Audrey Baxter
• Martin Sime