Jim Robertson B.Acc CA CTA FCMA is a Non-Executive Director of the Scottish Government and former chair of its Audit & Assurance Committee. He is member of the Government’s Corporate, Fiscal Strategy & Risk, Climate Action Delivery and Information Governance Boards.
He is a Senior Fellow of the International Tax & Investment Center, an education foundation based in Washington DC. In that role he delivers capacity-building programs to tax officials in developing countries together with the IMF, World Bank, OECD and UN. He is a member of the UN Subcommittee on Extractive Industries Taxation, the UN Subcommittee on Environmental Taxation and chair of its energy transition working group.
He is a former Council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and sits on its Tax Board.
He chairs the Academic Board and Committee of ADIT, the Advanced Diploma of International Tax, which is the international tax qualification of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
He chairs the Academic Board and Committee of ADIT, the Advanced Diploma of International Tax, which is the international tax qualification of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Jim qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC in 1981 and joined Shell International the same year. At VP level he was global head of Oil & Gas tax in Shell for 11 years, based in The Hague, and head of tax for the Americas based in Houston TX, with other senior finance roles in London and Kuala Lumpur. He was a founder member of Shell’s Finance Social Investment Network which connected staff to voluntary organizations in need of finance skills and experience, personally acting as mentor/coach to the owner of a cooking stoves business in Ethiopia. In Shell Finance he had global responsibility for promoting professional qualifications and for communications on diversity & inclusion. He retired from Shell in 2017.