Tim McKay

Tim graduated in Pure Maths & Theoretical Physics from St Andrews University in 1980, then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC), and later as anInvestment Analyst with the WM Company.

He worked for 11 years in a variety of Edinburgh based Financial Services companies and thereafter taught at Napier University. As his academic career developed Tim travelled extensively, teaching in Poland, Singapore, Australia, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and mainland China. Eventually he became Head of Accounting and Finance at Napier.

Tim retired early in 2006 and in 2007 was elected as a councillor in the Inverleith ward in the City of Edinburgh. He was a senior member of the Lib Dem/SNP coalition that ran Edinburgh council.

Since then he has been a member of various public bodies including the Legal Aid Board, the NHS Pension Board (as Chair) and the Accounts Commission (as Deputy Chair).

His hobbies include tennis, cycling, running and bridge.

 During his political career Tim has fought three general elections, Hamilton for the Scottish Liberal Party in 1987, East Lothian for the Lib Dem Alliance in 1992 and Edinburgh South West for the Lib Dems in 2010.