Marieke Dwarshuis and Lindsay Paterson reappointed to Scottish Housing Regulator board

Marieke Dwarshuis graduated in Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and her career in Scotland spans 30 years in the public and voluntary sectors in a wide range of roles. She has held various positions with the Scottish Government, prior to which she was depute director at Shelter Scotland.

She was a member of the team that established the Scottish Charity Regulator and later was director of consumer focus Scotland, as well as serving on the board of Hillcrest Housing Association for a number of years.

Marieke brings expertise in regulation, corporate governance and in leading and overseeing organisational change. She is now chair of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and works with the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland as a lay appointments adviser. 

Lindsay Paterson is a practising Scottish solicitor who is currently working on the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry. She is also a legal member of the Housing and Property Chamber of the First Tier Tribunal for Scotland.

Prior to taking up her appointment with the Inquiry, Lindsay spent her career assisting vulnerable people with various aspects of social welfare law. She spent over seven years working for the Scottish Legal Aid Board, latterly as head of the Civil Legal Assistance Office in Edinburgh.

Lindsay previously spent over a decade working in law centres in Glasgow, both as a solicitor and money advisor. She was also one of two solicitors directly employed by a consortium of Citizens Advice bureaux in Glasgow to set up and deliver a project to deliver legal advice and representation to CAB clients in the first project of its kind in Scotland. As well as being a passionate defender of housing rights, Lindsay has an interest in Equality and Human rights issues and obtained a master’s degree in research in Equality and Human rights in 2015.

Originally appointed in 2021, the duo’s reappointments will be for four years and will run from 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2029.