We at ESU Scotland were very excited at being given the opportunity to host the last World Members’ Conference in Edinburgh in September 2008. Over 250 delegates from 31 countries attended.
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The Scottish section of the ESU John Smith Memorial Mace is organised by ESU Scotland.
This is the oldest and most prestigious debating intervarsity competition in Europe, featuring over one hundred and fifty teams.
Former winners include the late Donald Dewar, Charles Kennedy MP, Bob Marshall-Andrews MP, The Rt. Hon the Lord
Hunt of Wirral, Professor Anthony Clare, and the late Labour leader, John Smith, in whose honour the competition was renamed in 1995.
This is the oldest and most prestigious debating intervarsity debating
competition in Great Britain and Ireland, and we are delighted that
Baillie Gifford,
the Edinburgh-based investment managers, continued
their sponsorship of the Scottish and English legs of the 2009/10 Mace, along with the International Final.
The 2009 International Final took place at The Signet Library, Edinburgh and was won by Jonathan Leader-Maynard and
Alex Worsnip of The Oxford Union Society.
The Scottish Champions in 2010 are Sebastian Osborn and Paul Brown of Edinburgh University.
The Scottish Champions in 2009 were Daniel Berman and Tom Cahn of the University of St. Andrews.
Scottish universities have an enviable record in this competition, with twenty victories in the 50 years of the competition.
Fifteen of these victories were achieved by the Glasgow University Union. No other university has won more than six times.
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