Management Committee

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About the SoA board

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

Simon Cann

Management committee term 2019-2022

Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin

Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin

Management committee term 2019-2022

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris

Chair of the SoA Management CommitteeCouncil term 2015-2025

Charles Harris

Charles Harris

Management committee term 2021-2024

Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson

Management committee term 2020-2023

Abie Longstaff

Abie Longstaff

Management committee term 2019-2022

Juliet McKenna

Juliet McKenna

Management committee term 2021-2024

Hugh Roberts

Hugh Roberts

Management committee term 2021-2024

Anne Rooney

Anne Rooney

Management committee term 2020-2023

Margaret Skea

Margaret Skea

2020-2023

Tim Tate

Tim Tate

Management committee term 2021-2024

Philip Womack

Philip Womack

Management committee term 2020-2023

Group chairs

Rebecca DeWald

Rebecca DeWald

Co-chair of the Translators Association

Kari Dickson

Co-Chair of the Translators Association

Ignaty Dyakov-Richmond

Ignaty Dyakov-Richmond

Chair of the Educational Writers Group

Sawad Hussain

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

Isabel Thomas

CWIG committee member 2021-4