Alison Johnstone


Alison Johnstone is a Scottish Green Party politician, who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothian region since 2011. She also served as a councillor for the Meadows/Morningside ward for The City of Edinburgh Council from 2007 until May 2012.

Early life

Johnstone was born and raised in Edinburgh, where she attended St. Augustine's High School.

Career

From 1999, Johnstone worked as an assistant to Robin Harper, a position she held until he stood down in March 2011. She was also joint convenor of the Scottish Green Party from 2007 to 2008. She was elected in May 2011 to the Scottish Parliament.
She unsuccessfully contested Edinburgh Central in the 2016 Scottish Parliament election but finished fourth behind the Scottish Conservatives' Ruth Davidson, the Scottish National Party's Alison Dickie and Scottish Labour's Sarah Boyack. She was again returned on the regional list.
Since 3 March 2019, she has been the Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens in the Scottish Parliament, serving with Partick Harvie. In 2020, she introduced a measure to grant protected species status to the mountain hare in Scotland, which was accepted on 17 June 2020.

Personal life

Johnstone has a husband and daughter.