Ian Duncan, Baron Duncan of Springbank
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Ian James Duncan, Baron Duncan of Springbank (born 1973) is a Conservative politician, currently serving as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the both the Scotland Office and in the Northern Ireland Office. He formerly served in the European Parliament (2014 - 2017) and resigned upon his appointment to the House of Lords.
Duncan was born in 1973 and raised in Alyth, Perthshire, where he attended Alyth High School. He achieved a degree in geology from the University of St Andrews, before earning a PhD degree in paleontology from the University of Bristol.
During the late 1990s, Duncan served as a policy analyst for BP's political affairs team where he worked on the company's strategy for emerging economic prospects in post-communist eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
In 1999 Duncan became the Deputy Chief Executive, and Secretary for the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, where he developed policy and worked closely with the European Union, namely lobbying for the development of a regional management model which was later adopted by the European Commission.
From 2004-2005 he acted as the Head of Policy & Communication for the Scottish Refugee Council, a charity which offers advice to those taking asylum within Scotland.
Before becoming an MEP, Duncan worked as Head of the EU Office for the Scottish Parliament, a position he held between 2005 and 2011, at which time he was appointed Clerk to the Parliament's European Committee and EU Advisor to the Parliament. He stood down from this role in 2013 to pursue candidacy with the Scottish Conservatives, after Struan Stevenson announced he would not seek re-election.
As a candidate for the Scottish Conservatives at the 2014 European elections, Duncan campaigned on a platform of delivering reform in the European Union as well as an in-out referendum within three years.
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