Rebekah Widdowfield is Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy and has spent much of her career working at the interface of policy and research. Having worked in academia for a number of years, Rebekah joined the Scottish Government to pursue a more applied research career. She became a senior civil servant in 2008 serving as Head of Rural and
Environmental Science and Analysis and Chief Researcher before becoming Head of Higher Education and Science. Rebekah supported a number of strategic advances during her time in Government including helping establish the Centre of Expertise on Climate Change, ClimateXChange.
