Susan Rice Dame Susan Rice is another veteran financier who combines banking and business interests with roles on public boards interest in the arts. She is chair of Scottish Water and the Scottish Fiscal Commission. As chief executive, and then chair of Lloyds TSB Scotland, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000. In 2012, she was also the first woman elected as president of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. She has long been respected by government. In 2009 she chaired the 2020 Group, set up in response to the Climate Change Bill, which aimed to reduce carbon emissions by 42 per cent of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050. In 2014 the Scottish Government announced it had reached the first target six years early.
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New study findings show the size of the working population across Aberdeen city and shire has shrunk by 9% – meaning 21,500 fewer jobs – over the past five years.
Using data from the Fraser of Allander Institute, Just Transition Commission, Office for National Statistics and Scottish Government, the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) has highlighted a steady decline in north-east employment during 2016, in the aftermath of a severe oil and gas downturn.
This was followed by three years of stability and then a sharp drop after April 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic took its toll on jobs.
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