LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
DOUGLAS WATSON
The winner of this year’s lifetime achievement award is an initiator and enabler with a knowledge of rural Scotland’s businesses, organisations and people that really impressed the judges. Senior project manager with the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society, Douglas Watson has given a lifetime of dedication to improving the way that rural Scotland works. The judges noted that Douglas works quietly, but incredibly effectively, from behind the scenes. He has woven together supply chains and industries throughout rural Scotland, His knowledge, experience, connections and desire to help others made him stand out.