Catherine Maxwell Stuart is the Director of Heritage at Beyond Borders Scotland. She is the 21st Lady of Traquair and lives at Traquair House, where she was born and brought up.

Over the past 30 years, she has been actively involved in tourism, the arts, heritage, and business, both locally and nationally. She has been a board member of Scottish Enterprise Borders, the Broadcasting Council for Scotland, and a non-executive director of Border TV. She also sat on the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Records and Archives and is Chair of the Scottish Borders Area Tourism Partnership.

She founded and chaired the Tweed Valley Tourism Business Improvement District for 10 years and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale in 2024.