Mairi Mackay is the Global Head of Social Enterprise for the British Council in East Asia and currently leads a nine-country social enterprise programme that has provided training, access to funding and UK expertise to over 2500 social entrepreneurs in the region. Delivered with the support of 95 corporate, government and third sector partners, the programme also convenes policy dialogues between the UK and East Asia and promotes social innovation through campaigns that since 2009 have generated a media reach of 192 million.
In recent years Mairi served as Head of Greater China for Scottish Development International (SDI), directing four regional economic development offices to secure trade and investment opportunities for Scotland. Prior to her role with SDI Mairi was responsible for the development and management of GlobalScot – an internationally recognised Diaspora network of over 1000 successful global influencers and CEO’s who comitted their expertise to supporting Scotlands Economic Development agenda. Mairi holds a 1st class honours degree in Business Management and a PhD in Collaboration and Economic Development from the University Of Strathclyde Graduate School Of Business.