John Scott
Glasgow 2014
John represents the Organising Committee on the Glasgow 2014
Board in his role as Chief Executive. He joined the Board in
June 2010 to strengthen the link between the Executive Team and the
Board, and as a Board member John will increasingly focus on the
external relations of the OC, with the media, political liaison,
and our commercial negotiations around Sponsorship and
Broadcasting
John Scott became Chief Executive of the Organising Committee on
4th August 2008. Prior to this, John was International Director and
Director of Drug Free Sport at UK Sport where he was responsible
for major events, international relations and led the UK national
anti-doping organisation.
His first involvement in major sporting event management came in
the 1980s when he was seconded to the Federal Government of Canada
to set up a new division managing the government’s support for
major events and international development. He led the Canadian
government’s investment in the Victoria Commonwealth Games (1994)
and was a member of the Bid committee for Canada’s successful Bid
to host the 1999 Winnipeg Pan American Games.
He was heavily involved in the Federal Inquiry into doping in
sport, following Ben Johnson’s positive drug test at the 1988 Seoul
Olympic Games.
In 1999 he established the highly successful World Class Events
Programme for UK Sport, which uses Lottery money to bring major
sporting events to the UK and has so far delivered over 120 events
across the whole of the UK. He has led the development of a number
of evaluation tools for major events including an economic impact
model that has become an industry standard, used to assess over 40
events in the UK, including several in Scotland.
He was a Board member of the highly successful 2002 Manchester
Commonwealth Games and the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games, and a
special adviser to the government on the feasibility study for the
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Bid. He has attended six
Commonwealth and six Olympic Games in various capacities.
John has also served on numerous international committees and
working groups for organisations such as the IOC, UNDP, UNESCO and
the Commonwealth Secretariat, and was the Chairman of the Council
of Europe Committee for the Development of Sport. He was the UK
representative on the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Sport for
five years.