Antonia Swinson
A Biography
For nearly six years until recently, Antonia Swinson was Chief Executive of Social Enterprise Scotland (formerly the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition,), the national collective voice of social enterprise business movement in Scotland – a membership organisation credited with positioning social enterprise in the political consciousness and campaigning to embed community benefit in procurement. This role included delivering authoritative political communication at the highest level of the UK and Scottish Governments.
Prior to this, Antonia was an established policy adviser on small and medium size businesses and an award winning business journalist with her Passing Comment column in the business section of Scotland on Sunday. She also spent many years working in London contributing to the Daily & Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph and magazines including Regeneration & Renewal. In a voluntary capacity, she became a trustee of Chiswick House Friends.
In addition to business writing, Antonia wrote the Last night’s View TV column for the Daily Express for some years and a popular allotment gardening column in the Scotsman Magazine, plus personal finance columns for a diverse range of audiences including Life & Work Magazine, Scotland on Sunday, the Big Issue and Scottish Field.
Broadcast appearances include: Radio 4 Thought for the Day; Channel 4 'Dosh'; BBC 4 Games Britannia, plus local radio.
Antonia has published six books: three novels, two non-fiction works including Root of all Evil? published in 2003 which predicted the current global economic situation, plus an introduction to the new edition of her late father Arthur Swinson’s true story of the Whisky Galore boat the SS Politician, Scotch on the Rocks.
She is a former Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland and former member of the Scottish Arts Council Literature Forum. In 2004 she took the role of Hon. Sec of the Edinburgh Book Fringe set up to champion Scottish writers and writing.
She has recently been co-opted to the Power & Responsibility Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and as a former programme director of international leadership organisation Common Purpose, now sits on the Edinburgh Common Purpose Advisory Group.
Antonia now works for range of private clients in Scotland and England.
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