David Torrance is a Fast Stream civil servant, currently working in Scottish Government, and an ordained priest in the Church of England. His career spans government policy, academic theology, and cross-cultural ministry. He previously worked in the third sector in rural Tanzania, taught in church and theological settings, and served in parish ministry and university chaplaincy. David brings together experience in public service, leadership development, and practical theology, shaped by long-term engagement in international and community-based contexts.
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Dr M Torrance-Foggin
Marion Foggin is a community paediatrician. She earned her medical degrees at University of St Andrews and University of Manchester. Postgraduate qualifications include MRCP and MRCPCH and she gained a Masters in Community Child Heath at the Institute of Child Health, University of London. Following 10 years of medical experience in the UK including her final position as a Consultant Community Paediatrician in Northumberland as well as other development experience in inner city areas with high unemployment, she has since 1998 led the health and community development work of the international NGO Plateau Perspectives in Qinghai Province and Tibet Autonomous Region, China. While still contributing to the work of Plateau Perspectives in China, she has also contributed to projects in the Kyrgyz Republic related to the health and wellbeing of children with disabilities and is preparing to start further health development projects more widely in Central Asia. Her main focus remains on rural livelihoods and the wellbeing of pastoral communities in high mountain regions
Dr Charles Warren
Charles Warren graduated from the University of Oxford in 1985 with a First Class Honours degree in Geography before gaining an M.Sc. and a Ph.D at the University of Edinburgh. He then moved to St Andrews in 1995. Having begun his career researching the climatic response of glaciers in Patagonia, Nepal and New Zealand, his interests now lie in the field of environmental management. He has written widely on Scottish land use issues, notably in his book Managing Scotland’s Environment (EUP, 2nd edition, 2009) and in the edited volume Lairds, Land and Sustainability: Scottish perspectives on upland management (EUP, 2013). He is married to Sarah, and they have two adult children. He is an active member of the local church, a keen hillwalker and loves spending time in wild mountain environments.
Prof Jeremy Begbie
Professor Jeremy Begbie teaches systematic theology at the Duke Divinity School and specializes in the interface between theology and the arts. Previously associate principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he has also been honorary professor at the University of St Andrews, where he directed the research project, Theology Through the Arts at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. He is a senior member of Wolfson College and an affiliated lecturer in the faculty of music at the University of Cambridge. A professionally trained musician, he has performed extensively as a pianist, oboist and conductor. He is an ordained minister of the Church of England, having served for a number of years as assistant pastor of a church in West London. He is author of a number of books including Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music(Baker/SPCK), which won the Christianity Today 2008 Book Award in the Theology/Ethics Category.