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A panel of 14 experts tasked with exploring the possible economic policies of an independent Scotland, including what currency the country could use, has been unveiled by the SNP. The Growth Commission will inform SNP policy on the economy and will report directly to Nicola Sturgeon, as the party seeks to build a “sound, transparent and firm prospectus” for independence.

“This project ensures that we all have as sound, transparent and firm a prospectus as any country facing [independence] has ever had” Andrew Wilson, panel member The panel, which will be chaired by former SNP MSP Andrew Wilson, includes leading Scottish business figures, renowned economists and politicians. As well as examining the options for independence, it will also explore how to grow the country’s economy in the wake of the Brexit vote. The group includes Andrew Hughes Hallett, Professor of economics and public policy at the University of St Andrews, Petra Wetzel, the founder and managing director of WEST Brewery, and Dan McDonald, a businessman and founder of the N56 group.t is my sincere hope that should Scotland be asked to choose again on independence, this project ensures that we all have as sound, transparent and firm a prospectus as any country facing such a choice has ever had,” Mr Wilson said. “We need to think ambitiously, inclusively and differently.”

“The Commission’s work will inform our thinking in the here and now – how we sustain growth during the period of uncertainty caused by Brexit – but will also examine projections for Scotland’s finances and proposals for growth in the context of independence,” Ms Sturgeon said. “That work will include considering policies to grow the economy and reduce Scotland’s deficit and looking at the monetary arrangements which would best underpin a strategy for sustainable growth.”

The members of the SNP’s Growth Commission are:

Andrew Wilson (Chair), former SNP MSP and Economy and Finance spokesperson, Founding Partner, Charlotte St Partners.
Cllr Marie Burns, shadow Economy and Communities Spokesperson, North Ayrshire Council and former Director of Skills Interventions at Skills Development Scotland
Prof Iain Docherty, Professor of Public Policy and Governance, University of Glasgow
Prof Andrew Hughes Hallett, Professor of Economics and Public Policy,
George Mason University and University of St Andrews
Dan McDonald, businessman and Founder of N56 group
Derek MacKay MSP, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Finance
Marie Macklin CBE, Chief Executive of the Klin Group and Macklin Enterprise Partnership
Jim Mather, former Enterprise Minister and Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde and Heriot Watt University Roger Mullin MP, SNP Westminster Finance Spokesperson
Prof Catherine Schenk, Professor of International Economic History, University of Glasgow
Shirley-Anne Somerville, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science
Petra Wetzel, Founder and Managing Director WEST Brewery