Committee meetings
Informal meeting, Wednesday 16 March 2022
Committee members held an informal, virtual meeting to learn about deliberative democracy from:
Sarah Allen, Director of Capacity Building and Standards, Involve
Claudia Chwalisz, Innovative Citizen Participation Lead, Open Government Unit, OECD
Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Professor of Politics, University of Leeds
Anthony Zacharzewski, President and Director-General at the Democratic Society.
6th Meeting, 2022 (Session 6), Wednesday 20 April 2022
Institutionalising Participatory and Deliberative Democracy (IPDD): The Committee took evidence from members of the Scottish Government IPDD Working Group – Fiona Garven, Director, Scottish Community Development Centre; Kelly McBride, Deliberative Democracy Lead, TPXimpact; Talat Yaqoob, Independent Consultant and Researcher.
11th Meeting, 2022 (Session 6), Wednesday 15 June 2022
Scottish Government response to the Expert Working Group report on Institutionalising Participatory and Deliberative Democracy: The Committee took evidence from George Adam, Minister for Parliamentary Business, Doreen Grove, Head of Open Government, and Gerald Byrne, Team Leader, Constitutional Policy, Scottish Government.
14th Meeting, 2022 (Session 6), Wednesday 26...