Andrew Perchard

Professor Andrew Perchard, PhD, is founder and director of Blairmore Associates. Born in Glasgow, Andrew is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. As well as his work with Blairmore Associates, Andrew is Honorary Research Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand, and a Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London, and Northumbria University, both UK. He has advised and consulted for a number of private and public sector organisations, including Alcan UK, the Aluminium Federation, Highland Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and Rio Tinto. He has also worked in partnership with the National Mining Museums of England, Scotland, and Wales and the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. He has served as a strategic advisor to the CEO of several organisations. He has also given oral and written evidence to the New Zealand Parliament - Pāremata Aotearoa and the UK House of Lords. He previously served as Head of Energy Supply Policy at the Scottish Executive (now Scottish Government). He has led large, prestigious grant projects funded by such bodies as the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, Research Councils UK, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  His esteem has seen him elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, as well as a member of the Institution of Hammermen of Glasgow (one of the City's oldest guilds representing the engineering and metals trades) and a burgess of the City of Glasgow.  Amongst his publications are such acclaimed books as Aluminiumville: Government, Global Business and the Scottish Highlands (Carnegie, 2012) and (with Steven High and Lachlan MacKinnon) The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in PostIndustrial Places (University of British Columbia Press, 2017).