Malcolm Robert Green
MA, D.Phil., FSQA
Malcolm Green was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester and Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated MA (1969) in Literae Humaniores and D.Phil (1974). He lectured in Classics and Roman History at Glasgow University from1967 to 1998.
His public career began in 1973 with election to the Woodside Ward of Glasgow Corporation. In 1974 he was elected to Strathclyde Regional Council, representing the Partick/Anderston area, in which capacity he served until the dissolution of Strathclyde in 1996.
During those twenty two years he specialised in Education, serving as Vice-Chair of the Education Committee from 1978-1982 and Chair from 1982-1990. His national responsibilities during that time included Chairing the management side of the Scottish Teachers Pay and Conditions Negotiating Bodies from 1977-1990 and the Education Committee of COSLA from 1978-1990. By government appointment he served as Chair of the Scottish Committee on Staff Development in Education from 1977-1991 and as a Member of the Scottish Examination Board from 1975-1990. He was Scottish Commissioner on the Manpower Services Commission from 1982-1985. More recently he served on the five-member Scottish Commission on Education, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, whose report was published in 1997.
After 1990 he served in a variety of capacities within the Regional Council, taking successively responsibility for overseeing the Public Relations and Consumer and Trading Standards Services, for establishing the Region’s first Environment Policy, and latterly chairing the Racial Equality Sub-committee of the Council.
In 1995 he was elected to the new Glasgow City Council for Kelvingrove Ward, was Convener of the Council’s Education Committee from 1995-99 and is currently Business Manager, specialising in Modernising Government, Urban Regeneration and European and International Policy. In the summer of 2000 he was appointed by the First Minister to membership of the West of Scotland Programme Monitoring Committee overseeing the disbursement of European Union Structural Funds (Objective 2).
He has retained an active interest in the Community Based Housing Association Movement over the past twenty years, being a founder member of several such associations in Glasgow. Within Education he has taken a particular interest in the promotion of multi-cultural understanding and overseas teacher exchange. In this latter connection he has visited India, Pakistan, and, most recently, Bangladesh.