Stuart is Professor of Molecular Ecology & Evolution and the Director of Research in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.

His research interests are in using DNA variation among individuals, populations and species to gain novel insight into the behaviour, evolution, conservation and biology of a broad range of animals from both marine and terrestrial habitats. He has published over 150 articles in scientific journals as well as several book contributions.

He has been elected as Fellow of a number of learned societies, and sits on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals. He also Chairs key national and international research grant awarding bodies. In his spare time, he enjoys diving, climbing and photography.

Richard is currently serving as the Director of the ICOS Ocean Thematic centre based at NORCE (the Norwegian Research Centre) in Bergen Norway and as a senior scientist at the UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC), a position he has held since August 2019. Prior to that he was the chair of the NOC Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems group between 2012 and 2019, a research scientist in NOC between 2000 and 2012 and a PhD student and graduate researcher in the department of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia between 1993 and 2000. He has broad research interests in the ocean carbon cycle including the biological carbon pump, the mechanisms by which the ocean stores carbon biologically, sea surface carbon fluxes, fluxes of organic Carbon from land to ocean via rivers and the storage of carbon on land in coastal habitats. Recently he undertook fieldwork in the Falkland Islands associated with the latter elements.

Stuart is Founder and Chairman of the Fortuna group of companies in the Falkland Islands.

In the course of his career he has been a member of The Islands Legislative Assembly and Executive Council and for eight years was a member of the Board of the Falkland Islands Development Corporation. Stuart was Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee for two years following its establishing legislation.
He is currently also Chairman of the Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association.

His free time interests include trout fishing, gardening and South Atlantic Politics.

Tracy qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant and worked for nearly 41 years in a top ten audit and accountancy firm in their Bristol Office. She spent 35 years auditing organisations of varying sizes from small owner/managed business to multi million pound entities. She spend the final years of her working life helping many organisations to prepare their financial statements. For over 25 years she specialised in working with the not for profit sector both as an audit manager and a manager in the accounts and business advisory department. Tracy was a member of the firms Charity Sector group and trained the local team in the specialist areas for charities accounts. She was part of the local team providing seminars to charity clients.

Tracy was a school governor for eight years, the last two of which she was chair. She is currently a committee member for her local Townswomen’s Guild.

Amanda Curry Brown joined the Falkland Islands Government as Director of Policy & Economic Development in March 2022. Prior to this, Amanda served as the Senior Economist for the St Helena Government.
Before 2019, Amanda worked in a variety of roles in the United States civil service. Most recently, she managed an international air quality and climate change programme at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), supporting low income countries crafting evidence-based action plans to address emissions from key sectors.
Amanda has a degree in Economics and Business from Florida Southern College and a Master of Public Policy from the College of William & Mary. Outside of work she enjoys travel, cooking and most sports, especially basketball, cricket and football (the kind with the round ball).