David Belfall

David Belfall was Chairperson of Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector and was a Non-Executive Member of the NHS Lothian Board for a four-year term beginning in 2004.

Belfall is a retired civil servant. He spent the first half of his career in the Home Office working on policing, criminal justice, prisons and immigration issues. The second half was spent in the Scottish Office/Scottish Executive concluding as Head of Housing and Area Regeneration Group.

David Belfall has been a Board Member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) since 1 January 2002. The SCCRC concluded its review of the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial on 28 June 2007. Belfall was not involved in the review of Mr Megrahi's case, however.