Andrew Bachell joins as Conservation and Projects Director and Dee McIntosh will take up the position of Director of Policy and Communications in October.

Bachell, currently Director of Strategy and Communications at Scottish Natural Heritage, will lead on delivering Conservation Services and Projects to our properties. He will take up his post in early December.

Andrew is well known to the Trust, not only through his work at Scottish Natural Heritage, where he has been for the last five years, but through his previous role at the Trust as Director of Countryside and also at The Woodland Trust.

Andrew brings a wealth of conservation experience and knowledge to the National Trust for Scotland. He graduated in Forestry and Resource management at the University of Edinburgh, and lives in Perthshire.

Dee McIntosh will take the strategic lead on all policy matters for the Trust, relations with the Scottish Executive, other major stakeholders and the media.

She joins the Trust having successfully delivered a similar remit for Scottish Rugby, where she has been Director of Communications and Public Affairs.

McIntosh has spent the past seven years working at senior management level for large national governing bodies of sport and previously worked as a journalist with the BBC on their flagship news programmes such as Newsnight. She graduated in History at Stirling University and comes from Dundee.

Commenting on today’s appointments, the Trust’s Chief Executive Mark Adderley said, “With these two senior appointments our new leadership team is now in place. I look forward to having both Andrew and Dee on board for what will be a very exciting three year period of intensive progress and development for the Trust.

“Since I became chief executive in February, I have not rushed into confirming the Trust’s leadership team, as each appointment had to be absolutely right.

“Today’s senior appointments in the vital areas of Conservation and Projects and also in Policy and Communications allow us to fully address the Trust’s current and future needs and we can now work to ensure we continue to be Scotland’s leading conservation organisation and offer our members and the Scottish public great value for money and a quality Scottish product.”