Robert Jamieson MA FCA CTA (Fellow) was educated at Fettes and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied Moral Sciences, Robert joined Cooper Brothers & Co and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1972. He then moved to Financial Training where he ran their specialist tax course and tax consultancy divisions. He passed the ATII examination in 1979 and received his FTII in 1984 for a thesis on family companies.

After 20 years with Financial Training, Robert decided to return to full-time practice and became a partner in Adam Broke & Co in 1992. Adam Broke & Co merged with Mercer & Hole on 1 October 2001.

Outside his work, Robert joined the Council of The Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1993 and became their President in May 1999. In addition, he is on the Editorial Board of the weekly magazine "Taxation".

He contributed to Sweet & Maxwell's "Transactions: Group Company Structures" and Tolley's "Tax on Transactions" and he has written a Tax Digest for Accountancy Books on "Close Company Problems". He was also one of the original Series Editors for Croner's Tax Handbooks.

Robert is an occasional commentator on private client tax matters for Legal Network Television.