Keith Brown, Minister for Housing and Transport

Keith Brown, Minister for Housing and Transport

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Profile: Keith Brown has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Ochil Constituency since May 2007. Before his election he served for eleven years as a councillor in Clackmannanshire, and held the post of Council Leader from 1999 to 2003. He has also been since 1999 a member of the European Union's Committee of the Regions, serving as President (2004-2006) of the Union for a Europe of the Nations - European Alliance (UEN-EA) group on that body. He was appointed Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning in February 2009 and became Scotland's new Minister for Transport and Infrastructure on the 12th December 2010. Mr Brown worked for 15 years as a local government professional in neighbouring Stirling, where he was also an active trade union representative with UNISON. He is a graduate of Dundee University and a former Marine who served in the Falklands. Originally from Edinburgh, Keith now lives in Dollar with his three children.

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