Anna Pinsky

Lead for Succession Planning, Leadership Development and Manager Development, Registers of Scotland

Anna is a specialist in talent and organisation development with over 25 years of experience working across the public, private and third sectors. Her main interest is in succession planning and leadership and manager development. 

After a career mostly based in Japan, she returned to Scotland in 2023 taking up her current role in the Registers of Scotland. Her prior roles include Head of Talent Development for Microsoft Japan,  APAC People Partner for Google, Vice President of the British Chamber of Commerce for Japan and Partnership Development Lead for the British Council in East Asia.

Anna holds MAs in Organisational Management & Development as well as Japanese and Linguistics, is a qualified Executive Coach (PCC,  International Coaching Federation) and a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. She has written articles for the Association of Talent Development and been a member of the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Japan. She is also a Trustee for the charity Facial Palsy UK.