Full Name
Anne McLister
Job Title
Head of Digital Economy
Organisation
Glasgow City Council
Speaker Bio
Anne is Head of Digital Economy in Glasgow City Council and is focused on ensuring Glasgow is competitively placed digitally to embrace opportunities and confront challenges in the City.  This includes attracting and encouraging investment in digital infrastructure as well as working with City partners to enhance and grow digital skills, improve the digital maturity of Glasgow’s businesses, support the already flourishing tech sector in the City, and increase the digital participation of our citizens in economic, civic and social life.
Previous roles in the Council include the City Deal Programme and Programme Manager for the development of the Glasgow Operations Centre as part of the Future City Demonstrator.
Graduating from Heriot Watt University with a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, she started her career in PA Consulting Group working throughout the UK and Europe with finance, oil and gas and public sector clients. She moved to Luxembourg, working for a Eurobond clearing house before returning to London and, subsequently, Glasgow working in both financial services and Scottish Enterprise.
Anne McLister