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Stephanie Fraser is Chief Executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland. She has led the organisation since 2012. She currently sits on the board of two Scottish Public Bodies; Creative Scotland, the national funding agency for arts, film and creative industries and the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator (OSCR). She is also Chair of the Scottish Government’s National Advisory Committee for Neurological Conditions and a Trustee of the Neurological Alliance of Scotland. In February 2021 she took her seat as a Life Peer in the House of Lords.

Having trained as a professional ballet dancer, Stephanie then read history at Trinity College, Cambridge. She became an Account Director at the advertising agency, J Walter Thompson, working on accounts such as Nestlé and De Beers. She returned to the dance world and re-trained as a Benesh choreologist and worked as Company Choreologist for English National Ballet before moving into the administrative side of the company as Director of Development. She moved back home and became Head of Development at Scottish Ballet.

Previous board positions have included serving as a trustee of Dance House Glasgow and Horsecross Arts in Perth. She was appointed to sit on the Scottish Charity Fundraising Regulations Working Group and continued as a member of the Implementation Group to ensure the creation and launch of the Independent Fundraising Standards and Adjudication Panel for Scotland in December 2016.

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