We've interviewed lots of professionals who have already made the move to live and work in Scotland.

Find out more about how they find their new lives working in our financial services industry.

Martin Potter, England

After working as an actuary in the Caribbean, what made English born Martin Potter move to Scotland to progress his career with Hymans Robertson?

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Monica Finch-Robertson, USA

Monica Finch-Robertson gave up the life of a busy IT consultant in the US to move to Scotland to be with her partner. It led to a new career and the joy of discovering the culture and history of her new adopted home country.

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Lauran Halpin, USA

Lauran Halpin moved to Scotland from Miami to study at the University of Edinburgh. Lauran now works for Baillie Gifford in Scotland's financial services industry.

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Lynn Lau, Singapore

Singaporean Lynn Lau is Head of Standard Life’s Asia Pacific Development team in Scotland’s financial services industry. She manages the Edinburgh-based company’s expansion into new markets, specifically in India and China.

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Theodora Vlachopoulou, Greece

Theodora Vlachopoulou originally came to Scotland from Greece to study in 2004.  She now works at J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank in Glasgow.


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Prasun Mathur, India

MBA graduate Prasun Mathur studied in Delhi before moving to the UK to pursue a career in financial services.  Now working for Standard Life in Edinburgh, he is quickly discovering how Scotland offers a very different way of life to some of the places he has previously called home

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Rhashed Molife, Zimbabwe

Rhashed Molife left his native Zimbabwe to pursue an actuarial career in the UK and is now settled in Scotland with his family and working for Scottish Widows in Edinburgh.

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Charmaine Ooi, Malaysia

Malaysian student Charmaine Ooi arrived in Edinburgh to study Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics  in 2005. Seven years later she is working as a fully qualified actuary with international consulting pension and investments company Mercer.

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Chetan Solanki, India

Chartered accountant Chetan came to Glasgow from Mumbai at the end of 2009 and now manages part of the Morgan Stanley’s Financial Reporting team.

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Davies, Zimbabwe

Davies, from Zimbabwe, works in Finance as a Trades Analyst with Morgan Stanley and loves life in Glasgow compared to London, especially the low cost of living.

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Anthony Gilbert, England

Mainframe developer Anthony Gilbert grew up near Blackpool and worked in Leeds and the North East of England before moving to Scotland. He now works with global financial services firm Morgan Stanley in Glasgow.

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Ben Hampton, England

A student internship with Standard Life was the stepping stone that Actuary Ben Hampton needed to develop his career in Scotland. It’s been hard work studying for professional exams, but now he’s qualified he’s keen to enjoy his newly acquired spare time learning golf… and planning his forthcoming nuptials!

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Justin Salisbury, USA

Justin Salisbury of Aviva was told everyone in Scotland spoke English! But he soon got used to the Glasgow accent and realised everyone was really friendly.

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John Probert, England

John Probert has been working for Mercer, the international consulting pension and investments company, for the past 16 years and last year made the move from London with his fiancé to join the company’s office in Edinburgh.

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