Former EU Ambassador Lord Kerr gave the 2017 Policy Scotland Annual Lecture, entitled ‘Brexit: Is the Train Crash Avoidable?’

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Lord Kerr was Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to the European Communities/European Union in Brussels from 1990 until 1995, and Ambassador to the United States in Washington from 1995 to 1997. Returning to London in 1997, he was Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service until 2002.

After leaving UK Government service he was Secretary General of the European Convention in 2002/3.

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