The RIAS has appointed Tamsie Thomson as its new chief executive almost four years after Neil Baxter left under a cloud.

Thomson will take up her new role in July after stepping down as a managing director at New London Architecture. She is also a former director of the London Festival of Architecture and lecturer at Brighton School of Architecture.

Her appointment signals a new era for the incorporation which represents 5,100 Scottish architects and has endured some rocky years.

It also means both the organisation’s figureheads will be women.

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