Team

Christophe  Dorigné ‑ Thomson

Dr Christophe Dorigné-Thomson, MiM, is a Scottish and French researcher specialising in foreign policy and strategic issues. His book, Indonesia’s Engagement with Africa (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2023), is the first comprehensive study of Indonesia-Africa relations and was selected by a distinguished international editorial committee.

Politically active, he has collaborated with leading institutions globally and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, among others.

Dr Dorigné-Thomson has been regularly featured in Indonesian media and interviewed by international outlets such as Voice of America (VOA), Radio France Internationale (RFI), Africa Business, South China Morning Post, and Melbourne University’s Talking Indonesia podcast. He has also been involved in several strategic initiatives and projects globally and especially in the Global South where he has lived for most of his adult life.

He holds a PhD in Politics from Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia’s leading university, and a Master in Management (finance major) from ESSEC Business School. He is a member of Liberation Scotland’s Secretariat.

Sara Salyers

Sara Salyers is a TV researcher and reporter turned activist.

She launched the Salvo movement, branding Scotland a “colonial outpost” of England. Sara was the driving force behind the dramatic rise in support for Liberation.Scot, quickly achieving the thousands of signatories for the Edinburgh Proclamation required to take Scotland’s case to the UN.

She’s pushing for a UN‑backed decolonisation drive, reviving the historic Claim of Right, and demanding a fresh independence referendum to settle the nation’s fate.

Bill Laing

Bill Laing has been a supporter of independence for Scotland since the days when it was “Scotland’s Oil,” around the same time as he started work as a systems test engineer, the systems being computers to you. Now thoroughly engaged with the idea that Scotland is a colony of England, and that there is no United Kingdom, he understands completely why independence has to be matter for International Law.

Bill is a native of Pictland (North East Scotland,) a member of the Liberation Scotland Committee, and vaguely remembers what he learned that earned him an MSc in Cyber Security.

Alan McMahon

Alan McMahon, a journalist for The National, analyses Scottish‑independence debates through an economic lens.

Alan stresses the need to assess practical, market‑level consequences alongside political rhetoric.