Sandy Stewart

Following his retirement from the Scottish Government, Sandy is currently a Visiting Research Fellow with the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. He is currently researching long-term economic change in Scotland, and more broadly, for the regions of the UK.

Sandy has had numerous statistical posts in the Scottish Government over some forty-two years, but his focus has been on economic, trade, labour market and productivity statistics. He has overseen the development of Scotland’s National Accounts from the compilation of the 1991 Input-Output tables to the current, fully integrated Scottish National Accounts system.

Sandy has also been active in the UK sphere. He was loaned to the UKSA’s Office for Statistics Regulation to head its Monitoring programme. He also served on the National Statistician’s Methodology Advisory Committee as an adviser on Sub-UK data and analysis.

His interests are mainly developing National Accounts at a country and regional level, labour markets, productivity and the wider use of Input-Output analysis.

Sandy was awarded an OBE for Services to Scottish Economic Statistics in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours.