Andrew Milligan OBE joined Standard Life Investments in 2000 as Global Investment Strategist before being appointed Head of Global Strategy in January 2001.Prior to joining Standard Life Investments, he was employed by HM Treasury, followed by Lloyds Bank where he was an Economic Adviser, and Smith New Court as an International Economist. In 1994, he was appointed Chief Economist with New Japan Securities Europe. He then moved to Morley Fund Management in 1996 to take up the position of Director of Economic Research & Business Risk. Andrew is also a Court member of Heriot Watt University and sits on the board of the Edinburgh Business School. He is deputy chair of Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland and sits on the Innovation Scotland Forum and and the Thomson Reuters Customer Advisory Board. Until 2014 he was a board member of Innovate UK, formerly known as the Technology Strategy Board; he received an OBE in the 2015 New Year honours for services to ‘innovation and the economy’.