Education
Graduate of the University of Glasgow in Scotland with a 1st Class Honours Degree as Master of Arts
Doctor of Science (Hon) from the University of Southampton.
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts
Fellow of the Institute for Sport and Recreation Management

Career and Offices Held
Following graduation and a period of research and consultancy in the leisure field was:

Director of Sport Development, Scottish Sports Council until 1988.
Director of National Services with the Sports Council in the UK until 1994.

Chief Executive of the Sports Council in the UK and of Sport England until 2001 responsible for national development programmes on community sports development, facilities planning, design, development and management and on high performance sport.

During the period 1994-2001 responsible for the establishment of the Sports Lottery Fund in the UK, the development of the English Institute for Sport and the funding of sports facilities from local to national level.

Responsible for the development of the World Class Support Programmes for English and British sportsmen and women including personalized funding and support in the fields of sports medicine, science and coaching.

Former Positions Held

Deputy Director of the Commonwealth Games Conference in 1986
Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Development of Sport 1993-1995
Former Co-Chair of the International Working Group on Drug Abuse in Sport
Former Member of the IOC’s Anti-doping Committee
Director of the World Conference on Drug Abuse in Sport
Adviser to the International Working Group on Women and Sport
Adviser to several Governments particularly in Africa and Eastern Europe on policy, legislation and programmes on leisure, sport and recreation

Current Voluntary Positions Held in the UK

Chair of UK Youth 2003 –
Board Member of Edinburgh Leisure 2002 -
Honorary Research Fellow – University of Stirling 2003 –

Current Voluntary Positions Held Internationally

Chair of the World Leisure Organization
Member of the Executive Committee for the 2006 World Leisure Expo in Hangzhou, China
Member of the Scientific Committee for the World Sports Congress in Athens in 2003/2005

Other Areas of Interest

Current Co-Principal of OPS INTERNATIONAL providing commercial and pro bono consultancy services with a particular emphasis on developing countries.

Invited and keynote speaker at national and international conferences
Contributor to radio and television on various sports issues
Author of papers and articles on the development of sport and recreation
Director of numerous international sports development courses and conferences particularly in Africa and Eastern Europe