EXPLORE ABERDEEN

Aberdeen's Lord Provost

The Lord Provost is Aberdeen’s civic head, an ancient office dating back to the 13th century.  Peter Stephen was nominated and elected as the new Lord Provost for Aberdeen.

The 43 members of Aberdeen City Council following the local government elections elect the ‘first citizen’ every four years. The Provost is also the Convener of the Council and continues to carry out the normal duties of an elected member.

The role involves the active promotion of Aberdeen at home and abroad. This involves a wide range of activities from hosting civic receptions and acting as the city’s ambassador, to taking part in a wide range of activities involving Aberdeen’s many groups and organisations.

Importantly, the Lord Provost is also the Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeen City and in this capacity, greets the Royal Family and visiting Heads of State. Other titles held by the Lord Lieutenant are the Lord High Admiral of the Northern Seas and the Vice Admiral of the Coast of Great Britain and Ireland.

You can now download a copy of the Lord Provost's diary of engagements.  Please see the downloadable forms section on the right.

Membership of committees, working groups and outside bodies

These memberships may be subject to change and will be amended in due course.

  • Aberdeen & Grampian Tourist Board
  • Justice of Peace (previously serving on bench)
  • Patron of Aberdeen International Youth Festival
  • Commissioner of the Northern Lighthouse Board
  • Vice President of the World Energy Cities Partnership
  • Member of the Gordon Highlanders’ Museum management Committee
  • Chair of the Justices of the Peace Advisory Committee
  • Trustee on the Aberdeen Safer Communities Trust
  • Chairman of the City Council
  • President of Aberdeen Scout Council
  • President of the Aberdeen Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
  • Patron of Mental Health Aberdeen
  • Honorary President of Erskine Hospital
  • Trustee of the National Library of Scotland
  • Honorary President of the Bridge of Don Sea Cadet Unit
  • Vice President of the Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Fund
  • Honorary Member of the Aberdeen & North East Scotland Family History Society
  • Member of Aberdeen City Council Licensing Committee, Standards and Scrutiny Committee, Grampian Joint Fire Board and the Aberdeen Licensing Board.
  • Member of the Local Advisory Committee of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen

Further information is also available on the Lord Provost's Charitable Trust page.

Contact(s)

  • Beverley Graham
    Lord Provost's Secretariat
    Lord Provost’s Personal Assistant
    Town House
    Aberdeen

    AB10 1LP
    Phone: 01224 522637
    Email: bgraham@aberdeencity.gov.uk

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