George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist, economist and politician. He was the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian from 2015 to 2017. In the 1980s, Kerevan was an economics lecturer at Napier University in Edinburgh. He was a member of the International Marxist Group, a Trotskyist group, between 1972-83. He later served as a Labour councillor in Edinburgh from 1984 - 1996. As convener of the District Council's economic development committee, he was a key figure in the development of Edinburgh Park, the new business quarter on the western edge of the city opened in 1995. In 1996, he left Labour to join the Scottish National Party.