Simon Pepper, OBE
Simon Pepper led WWF's operations in Scotland for 20 years to 2005, building a team of 19 with a wide range of policy initiatives, serving as a member of the Management Team of WWF-UK from 2000, and emerging as a leading figure in the environment movement in Scotland where he was one of the founders of Scottish Environment Link - the association of environmental NGOs in Scotland.
He has served on numerous government advisory committees, dealing with agriculture, forestry, fish farming, deer management, and sustainable development, and was appointed as external member on the Cabinet Sub-Committee dealing with Sustainable Development from 2004-7. He currently holds appointments in Scotland on the national committee of the Forestry Commission and the Deer Commission. He was founding chairman of the Millennium Forest for Scotland initiative, using £28m of national lottery funds to re-establish native forest with public access near communities all over Scotland.
He was awarded the OBE in the Millennium Honours in 2000, for services to sustainable development.
In 2005 he was elected as Rector of St Andrews University for a term of three years.
Simon is married with 5 children and seven grandchildren. He and his wife Morag live in Highland Perthshire where they run a 100 acre holding with sheep and native woodland.