The sportscotland board provides strategic guidance to all areas of our work. This section lists our board members and provides a brief overview of their background.
Chair: Maureen Campbell OBE
Maureen has been involved in sport for many years as an athlete, coach and team manager. She is a former chair of Scottish Swimming and a board member of British Swimming. She was awarded an OBE for services to swimming in 2019. Maureen is vice chair of Commonwealth Games Scotland. She was formerly chief executive of Falkirk Community Trust. Maureen brings to the Board her knowledge and experience of operating in the Scottish sporting pathway to develop outstanding athletes and coaches at all.
Maureen Campbell Register of Interests (PDF).
Andrew Bain
Andrew is passionate about the positive impact sport and physical activity brings to communities. A highly experienced leader within the sport and leisure sector with over thirty years senior management experience covering private, public and trust sectors.
Andrew is keen golfer and enjoys recreational cycling and running as a means of keeping fit and healthy.
Andrew Bain Register of Interests (PDF)
Moira Connolly
Moira Connolly qualified in Medicine from Queens University Belfast, completed GP training in Edinburgh in 1989, and became a consultant psychiatrist in 1996.
She held clinical and management roles within Glasgow Mental Health Services for over 20 years and worked for the Mental Welfare Commission.
She has championed the importance of physical health and wellbeing for people with mental health problems and the use of health informatics to improve clinical care and service delivery across health sectors.
When a student she took up running to keep fit, which she still does to unwind and think creatively, and she personally benefits from the camaraderie and coaching available at her local running club.
Jane Gotts
Jane Gotts has extensive experience in governance, strategic planning and stakeholder engagement. She is the Director of GenAnalytics, a consultancy specialising in diversity and inclusion, where she has led numerous impactful projects that drive positive change in workplaces and communities.
Jane is deeply committed to leveraging sport as a tool for social inclusion and well-being and understands the power of sport to change lives having served on the board of Commonwealth Games Scotland when the Games came to Glasgow in 2014.
Andrew Kerr OBE
Andrew Kerr OBE brings a wealth of experience to the board of sportscotland. He has had a long and successful career in Sports and Leisure culminating in his appointment as corporate director of Leisure and Culture in Birmingham.
A former elite athlete himself (he represented Great Britian and Scotland at 400m and 4x400m). he has been the Chief Executive of four major local authorities in the UK (North Tyneside, Wiltshire, Cornwall and for the last nine years in Edinburgh).
He brings vast experience of government, local authority Leisure and Sports provision and how they are vital to the development of sport in Scotland and combines that with an expertise in strategy development, business planning and the management of large organisations.
Scott Lindsay
Scott is a qualified accountant, business consultant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS). Since the early 2000s he has held senior positions in Scottish football including chief executive of Hibernian FC and director of finance and IT at the Scottish Football Association (SFA). Scott has extensive financial management experience and has served on numerous audit and risk committees. In 2018 he led Project Bright, which enabled the SFA to determine the future of Hampden Park and the Scottish national teams. During his time at Hibernian he founded the Hibernian Community Foundation. A keen badminton player, golfer and spectator, Scott has a lifelong passion for sport and a deep understanding of the relationship between sport and business.
Scott Lindsay Register of Interests (PDF).
Tony McDaid
Tony McDaid is the Chief Executive of Caledonia Gladiators, Scotland’s professional basketball franchise. With experience in basketball both as a player and a coach, Tony joined the club in June 2023 as their first CEO as they moved to their new East Kilbride arena.
Previously, Tony worked in education for over 30 years. His roles included Principal Teacher of Physical Education, Deputy Head Teacher, Head Teacher, as well as ten years as Head of Service and Executive Director of Education. Tony brings extensive experience and knowledge of both professional sport and education.
Tejesh Mistry
Tejesh Mistry is an experienced Senior Leader within the Third Sector who brings a wealth of knowledge from leading national physical activity and sport related behaviour change programmes to tackle inequality. As Director of External Affairs at Venture Trust, he has been able to harness his beliefs in the healing power of the outdoors and is inspired by the stories and journeys of transformation effected by many of the people he supports. Tejesh is a great advocate for volunteering and community participation developing his experience through international youth work before utilising his skills to support other organisations as a mentor for young people, Board Trustee, community helper and fundraiser. Tejesh is proud to be part of the inaugural Impetus Leadership Academy designed to support emerging ethnic minority leaders to help shape and lead within the youth sector.
Tejesh Mistry Register of Interests (PDF)
Hala Ousta
Hala Ousta is the Senior Diversity & Accessibility Manager at FIFA. Hala is responsible for leading FIFA’s work on diversity and accessibility ensuring the inclusion and active participation of disabled people and people of limited mobility at all levels, with a particular focus on their flagship tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup. This includes the development and implementation of the Sustainability strategies ensuring adequate and accessible infrastructure, services and communications. Prior to joining FIFA, Hala led the Scottish FA’s diversity and inclusion efforts to become one of the first national sporting bodies to secure the Advanced Level Equality Standard for Sport and led the establishment of its Equality & Diversity Advisory Board.
Hala is currently a Board Director of Scotland’s national agency for sport, sportscotland, while formerly serving as a Director and Advisor on various boards and committees such as the global network of Women in Football, the British Council, the Sport Minister’s Women and Girls in Sport Advisory Board and the Scottish Commission for Children & Young People (SCCYP). In addition, Hala is recognised as a Global Professional Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, UK Sport Industry NextGen Leader and has recently featured as one of YWCA Scotland’s 30 under 30 in 2019. Hala graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Master’s in Public Policy (with emphasis on Equality & Human Rights). She also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Equality & Discrimination from the University of Strathclyde, while achieving a Merit in her studies of Football Management joint programme with University of Lausanne and UEFA.
Hala Ousta Register of Interests (PDF)
Steven Sweeney
Steven was a PE Teacher before combining hobby and career, working at two Football Clubs, setting up and running their Partner Charities. Most recently in the north east, leading Aberdeen FC Community Trust to being named by UEFA as the Best Professional Club in the Community in Europe.
Steven was previously CEO at a Third Sector Interface; enabling volunteers, community organisations and social enterprises to deliver transformational change. Steven is also CEO of Forces Children Scotland, and the Convenor of the Board of Directors at Children in Scotland.
Steven Sweeney Register of Interests (PDF)
Gillian Treasurer
Gillian Treasurer is an experienced sports professional, having worked in legal roles with the Welsh Rugby Union, Scottish Rugby and currently The British & Irish Lions. Gillian is currently playing a key role as part of the Lions executive team as they prepare to travel to Australia for one of the world’s biggest sporting spectacles in 2025.
Gillian is delighted to take up her appointment to the Board of sportscotland, where she aims to play a key role in influencing policy, shaping strategy, and making a real impact on Scotland’s sporting future.
As well as being passionate about working in sport, she is also a fervent follower of Scottish sport and a regular attendee at events from grassroots to elite level.
Allan Watt
Allan Watt has worked in leadership roles in public, private and third sectors based in Scotland, London and Asia Pacific. He is currently Senior Advisor to the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. When leading a global brand and communications team he was responsible for a number of major global sports sponsorships, whilst ensuring that they delivered community participation and grass roots activity. From his time as CEO of a leading youth charity, Allan has first-hand experience of the power of sport to empower young people and change their lives through participation and teamwork. Allan is still an active rower, with experience of competing at national and international events and has been a club committee member overseeing major fundraising and building projects. His four boys all play different sports from weightlifting and judo to parkour; Allan has volunteered as a mini rugby coach, but he now spends most weeknights and weekends standing on the touchline watching youth football and admiring the commitment of the volunteer coaches and parents who make it all possible.
Allan Watt Register of Interests (PDF)