Iain Leyden has been appointed to lead Colliers International's project management activities in Poland.

Leyden has 20 years of experience working in the UK, Poland, Romania and other Central and Eastern European countries. He trained and qualified as a quantity surveyor in Glasgow where he also managed the Braehead shopping and leisure centre.

In Warsaw, he managed the Golden Terraces project and operated an independent project management consultancy firm, Caledonian Project Management.

He was also a director of King Sturge Building consultancy department before the group's merger with Jones Lang LaSalle, and subsequently headed the Project & Development Services unit.