Who We Are

Morag Sheppard

Board Member and Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Morag has extensive experience of corporate governance at senior management and Board level, in the public and private sectors.

From 2018-2022 she was a Member of the Board of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), and latterly Chair of its Audit Committee. Key activities included ensuring the delivery of the SLCC’s statutory functions; financial and risk oversight; advising the Board on strategic processes for risk, internal control and governance; scrutiny of organisational performance; and contributing to strategy development and decisions, including chairing a working party to recommend the SLCC’s future delivery model.

Before this, from 1998-2015 Morag held a series of senior organisational governance roles in the financial sector. As part of directing large-scale operations for firstly a major financial services provider and then a prominent outsourcing company, she had personal responsibility for governance in a highly regulated sector. This included ensuring effective performance by offshore partners to whom a large number of administrative roles had been transferred. She was also responsible for the construction of a standard governance framework, both to promote a culture of financial stewardship and customer service, and to mitigate operational loss – a key risk in this sector.

Following Morag’s retirement from full-time employment in 2015, she gained a Master of Laws degree which included the study of corporate governance.

Morag is also ESS’ Cyber Champion.