Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell, born in the village of Letham, Fife, Scotland on 27 May 1963, is a Writer and Producer.

Education

Robin attended Parkhill Primary School in Leven and Buckhaven High School. At Edinburgh Napier University, he studied a Higher Diploma in Hotel Catering and Institutional Management (1980–1983). In 1986, Robin passed the Scottish Tourist Guides Association (STGA) course at the University of Edinburgh.

Career

Robin co-founded Edinburgh's Cadies & Witchery Tours (with Colin Macphail) in 1984 and the film production company Cadies Productions Ltd in 2004. The Scottish actor Kevin McKidd worked at The Cadies and Witchery Tours in Edinburgh while studying drama at Queen Margaret University.

In May 1985, Robin and Colin were Lothian Region winners of the Shell LiveWIRE Young Business Competition. He featured in the LiveWIRE magazine in 2012.

In August 1988, Robin bought at auction a calling card case made out of skin taken from the back of the left hand of the infamous bodysnatcher William Burke (of Burke and Hare fame). In 1997 The calling card case featured as part of the Wellcome Trust's exhibition Dr Death: Medicine at the End of Life. The calling card case for many years was loaned to the Police Information Centre in Edinburgh's Royal Mile. It is now displayed in The Cadies & Witchery Tours shop in Edinburgh's West Bow. The calling card case featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow in May 2007 with Michael Aspel and on the Channel 4 show Four Rooms on Wednesday 25 April 2012.

Robin E. Mitchell

Dr. Robin E. Mitchell (born 10 March 1946 in Levuka) is a Fijian sports official.

A practicing medical doctor since 1977, he obtained his medical degree at Adelaide University in Australia. He was the team physician for Fijian athletes at the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and South Pacific Games from 1984 to 1992. In 1994, he was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and remains a member to this day.

He served as Chairman of the South Pacific Games Organising Committee from 1997 to 2003, and simultaneously as President of the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee from 1997 to 2005. He was Vice-President (1989-1993) then Secretary General (1993-2009) of the Oceania National Olympic Committees, and has served as its President since 2009. He is also, since 2001, a member of the Foundation Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

As of 2014, he is the only member of the IOC from a Pacific Island country.

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