Born in Dundee, Scotland, Mark took degrees in History (Oxford) and Industrial Archaeology in Ironbridge (Birmingham), worked in museums and then joined what is now Historic Environment Scotland, managing change to historic buildings and conservation areas across Scotland. He wrote the nomination for New Lanark’s inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List (inscribed 2001) and part of that for the Forth Bridge (2015). He has provided ICOMOS desk reviews of World Heritage nominations and carried out one field assessment. In at the start of two Europa Nostra award-winning projects, (Knockando and Stanley Mills in Scotland) he is currently the UK national rep for The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) and researches textile mill history, architecture, adaptive re-use and industrial heritage. He is collaborating on the TICCIH global thematic study on Textile Industries. "The Heritage of the Textile Industry" by Heike Oevermann, Bartosz M Walczak and Mark Watson (2022), available online: http://repozytorium.p.lodz.pl/handle/11652/4237