Frank GASKELL - European Forum Alpbach

Frank GASKELL President of Euromontana, the European Association of Mountain Areas, Brussels

	Degree in Law from London University
	worked in Local Government and as Senior Executive for the Law Society of England and Wales
	was first Secretary of HIE and previously the Head of Secretariat of Highlands and Islands Development Board, and Secretary of the Highlands and Islands Development Consultative Council
	Head of International Affairs within Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), the UK Government's economic development and training agency for the whole of the North of Scotland
	President of Euromontana
1982	joined HIDB (predecessor organisation of HIE)

Member of the Monitoring Committee for the Northern Periphery Interreg III Programme and of the Management Committee of the Highlands and Islands Special Transitional Programme
Member of the Scotland's European Structural Funds Co-ordination Team
Former Chairman of the LEADER II Monitoring Committee for the Highlands of Scotland
Executive Board Member and immediate past-President of EURADA, the European Association of Development Agencies