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Shaping Scotland’s Land Future panel at the Royal Highland Show

ScotLand Futures panel

What would it look like to complete Scotland’s land reform journey?

🕒 Arrive from 3.00pm
🎤 Panel starts at 3.30pm
📍 Upper Foyer, Highland Hall
☕ Refreshments on arrival

This session brings together a mix of voices from across the land sector to explore what it means to complete Scotland’s land reform journey. Our panel will look at where we are now, what still needs to change, and what success might look like for Scotland’s people, places and future.

We’ll be announcing panellists soon, check back on this page or follow us on social media for updates.

Can't make it in person? The event will also be livestreamed on this link from 3.25pm on Thursday 19 June.

Meet the panellists

Hamish Trench (Chair) - Chief Executive of the Scottish Land Commission

Hamish is Chief Executive and accountable officer of the Scottish Land Commission. He is a former chartered surveyor with experience of land policy, management and research in the public and private sectors. His previous roles include director posts at the Cairngorms National Park Authority and Deer Commission for Scotland, and working for a national firm of property consultants. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

Donna Smith - Chief Executive, Scottish Crofting Federation

Donna Smith is Chief Executive of the Scottish Crofting Federation. She has a background in crofting policy, business consultancy, and governance through roles on the boards of charitable organisations. Donna brings experience in both land use policy and organisational management, with a focus on representing crofters in rural policy development and advocating for the role of crofting in sustainable land use.

Col Gordon - Farmer, Member of the Landworkers’ Alliance coordination group and Trustee of Invergordon Development Trust

Col is based on his family’s farm, Inchindown, in the Gàidhealtachd, where he grows heritage grains and helps his father raise livestock. He narrated and co-produced the podcast series “Landed” with Farmerama Radio, which investigates the past, present and future of the family farm model through the lens of colonialism and is a member of the Landworkers’ Alliance, and Invergordon Development Trust.

Professor Jill Robbie - Professor of Property Law and Natural Environment at the University of Glasgow

Jill Robbie is a Professor of Property Law and the Natural Environment at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include land ownership, sustainability and nature restoration. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary Land Use for Net Zero research project investigating how to restore peatland on agriculture land entitled ‘Rapid Engagement with Stressed Peatland Environments and Communities in Transformation’ (RESPECT). Jill also serves as Deputy Chair of NatureScot and Chair of the Scottish Beaver Advisory Group.

Andrew Brough - Estate Director, Strathmore Estate

Andrew Brough is the Estate Director at Strathmore Estates, located in the village of Glamis, Angus.  The estate has a diverse portfolio of businesses including in-hand and tenanted farming, residential lettings, forestry, sporting, renewable energy as well as Glamis Castle, the biggest tourism attraction in Angus. Previously Andrew worked for Buccleuch where he managed the rural property team which, as part of that role, he led the sale of Langholm Moor to the communities of Langholm & Newcastleton.

James MacKessack-Leitch - Policy and Practice Lead at the Scottish Land Commission

James leads the Commission’s work around land and human rights, governance, and ownership. This touches upon a range of land reform issues from developing policy and legislative proposals to reform Scotland’s land market, to articulating the nature of carbon rights and what ownership means, to modernising the Common Good property regime, to improving access to land for new entrants to agriculture. James hails from a family farming background and brings broad experience from the private, public, and third sectors to his role.