Alistair McConnachie is the Director of Think Tank Sovereignty.
He was born in Hong Kong on the 14th December 1965. His first 5 years were spent in Hong Kong and West Germany.
Shortly after his father left the British Army, the family moved to Libya, where his father, a dentist, worked in a health centre run by the Oil Industry Medical Society.
Returning to Scotland in 1973, he lived in Ayr until 1976 when the family moved to Castle Douglas in the south of Scotland. In 1979 the family moved to a smallholding outside Castle Douglas and in 1982 they moved to a farm of 105 acres outside Dalbeattie, in the same area.
Alistair attended Reading University in 1984 and graduated with a degree in Agricultural Economics in 1987. He lived in Reading until 1990, when he entered the natural health field and moved to Edinburgh.
During the 1990s he was the Director of the Melville Natural Health Clinic in the centre of Edinburgh. It was during this time that he became concerned about the direction the country was taking, especially in its relationship with the so-called European Union.
Around the mid-90s he was introduced to the field of monetary
reform, and worked in a part-time and voluntary capacity with
money reformers based in Edinburgh.
By 1997 he was increasingly concentrating on his research activities and in 1999 he moved to Glasgow, where he is presently based, working on his various research, publishing and campaigning initiatives, as well as being a full-time university Law student.
In July 1999 he launched monthly journal Sovereignty. It is a fully privately-owned and independently-produced operation. In October 2007 it celebrated its 100th continuous month of publication.
He has stood for elected office 9 times at Council, Scottish, British and European level.
He stood at the 2007 Scottish Election, for the party which he founded and leads, Independent Green Voice, in the Glasgow Region constituency. The 2007 Manifesto can be read here. He took 496 votes.
At the Scottish Election on 1st May 2003 he stood for Independent Green Voice in the Kelvin parliamentary constituency of Glasgow, and saved his deposit taking 6% of the vote. He also stood in the Hillhead ward in Glasgow at the council elections on the same day. At the 2005 General Election, he stood in the Glasgow South West constituency.
Alistair is asked regularly to speak on a wide range of subjects on local and national radio. Please contact him at 268 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JR;
Telephone: 0141 332 2214 Fax: 0141 353 6900 E-mail: contactus (AT) sovereignty DOT org DOT uk
