Background
The eldest son of John Raven, a Cambridge University classics don, and grandson of Charles E. Raven, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, he developed professional expertise in land management.
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Andrew Raven
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Career
He was a trustee of the John Muir Trust from 1989 to 1995, a time when the charity started to acquire land in the Scottish Highlands. In 1995 he became their Director of Land Management. Three years later he joined the Scottish Consumer Council, seeing himself there as the voice of rural Scotland in consumer affairs
In 2000, he was appointed a Commissioner of the Forestry Commission, becoming the chairman of its National Committee for Scotland in 2003.
Raven was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2005. He died of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 46 on 4 October 2005.
Membership
In 1992 he became a member of the Council of the Rural Forum, a highly influential group which for the first time brought together rural communities and Scottish policy-makers.
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Nationality
British