The Management Committee is responsible for the direction of the SoA and makes all major policy and strategy decisions.
The Management Committee is made up of democratically-elected Members who are unpaid volunteers. Voting members are directly elected by the Membership and each serve a term of three years. Read more about Management Committee elections.
Chairs of SoA groups whose membership makes up more than 5% of the total membership also sit on the Management Committee but do not have a vote.
Members wanting to raise policy matters can email Chief Executive, Nicola Solomon or Management Committee chair, Joanne Harris. For individual queries on professional matters please contact our advisory team.
Members can view minutes of Management Committee meetings on our Governance page.
Elected members
Simon Cann
Management committee term 2019-2022
Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin
Management committee term 2019-2022
Joanne Harris
Chair of the SoA Management CommitteeCouncil term 2015-2025
Charles Harris
Management committee term 2021-2024
Dorothy Koomson
Management committee term 2020-2023
Abie Longstaff
Management committee term 2019-2022
Juliet McKenna
Management committee term 2021-2024
Hugh Roberts
Management committee term 2021-2024
Anne Rooney
Management committee term 2020-2023
Margaret Skea
2020-2023
Tim Tate
Management committee term 2021-2024
Philip Womack
Management committee term 2020-2023
Group chairs
Rebecca DeWald
Co-chair of the Translators Association
Kari Dickson
Co-Chair of the Translators Association
Ignaty Dyakov-Richmond
Chair of the Educational Writers Group
Sawad Hussain
Co-chair of the Translators Association
Mac Logan
Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland
Christina MacSweeney
Co-Chair of the Translators Association
David Morley
Chair of the Scriptwriters Group
Katrina Naomi
Chair of the Poetry and Spoken Word Group
Isabel Thomas
CWIG committee member 2021-4