Paolo Vestri

​Paolo Vestri is part of LGIU’s commissioning team and is responsible for developing and running our content services for local government in Scotland.

Prior to joining LGIU, Paolo was Corporate Policy Service Manager at East Lothian Council. He has over 40 years of experience working in and for local government, including eight years as a councillor on Edinburgh District Council.

In a full circle moment, he was the original Director of the Scottish Local Government Information Unit from 1994 to 2002 before its reinvention in 2016.

Paolo established Hexagon Research and Consulting in 2004 where he led various research projects, including the Evaluation of the Impact and Operation of Free Personal Care (2006/07) and Analysis of Councillors’ Weight of Responsibilities and Councillors’ Workload Survey (2005).

When he is not commissioning and editing content for LGIU, Paolo spends some of his retirement from full-time work being under-shepherd to his wife’s small flock of small Shetland sheep and being taken for walks by Rosie, their fox red labrador.