Our senior management team are responsible for leading the organisation and managing its activity. This section lists the members of the team and provides a brief overview of their background.
Forbes Dunlop, chief executive
Forbes was the COO at sportscotland, the national agency for sport in Scotland, from April 2019 before being appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2023. He started his career working in local government, then moved to sportscotland holding various positions over a ten-year period between 2003 - 2013. Forbes then took up the role of Chief Executive at Scottish Swimming and during his six years the sport enjoyed year on year membership growth, made significant progress rolling out the National Learn to Swim Framework and saw Scottish athletes competing at the highest level around the world before returning to sportscotland. Forbes served as a non- Executive Director on the Board of the British Paralympic Association for the past six years, and over a similar time period was the voluntary Chair of his local disability sport organisation, South Lanarkshire Disability Sport.
Craig Burn, Director of Sport
With a strong track record and a career spanning over 25 years with some of Scotland’s leading leisure and sport organisations, Craig is regarded as one of the country’s most experienced and accomplished sports management professionals.
Craig was most recently Director of Strategy, Policy and Impacts at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. He led the executive team for the world’s largest global cycling event in history that brought together 13 world championships into one combined mega event in August 2023. He is also the former CEO of Scottish Cycling.
Anne Langley, Director of Corporate Services
Anne Langley is the Director of Corporate Services at sportscotland, providing strategic leadership across four core functions: Communications and Policy, Finance and Business Planning, Culture, Talent and Operations, and Digital and Data. She also oversees sportscotland’s National Centres at Inverclyde and Glenmore Lodge, ensuring strong organisational foundations for delivering the Sport for Life strategy.
With over twenty years’ experience across the public, private and third sectors, Anne brings deep expertise in organisational transformation, governance and strategic operations. She is committed to ensuring corporate services act as effective enablers of organisational performance and public value.
Before joining sportscotland, Anne served as Executive Director of Operations at Creative Scotland, where she led key organisational functions including finance, funding, legal, digital, governance, HR and strategic business planning. Her leadership strengthened organisational performance and supported the delivery of major national funding programmes.
Anne previously held senior roles within the UK Civil Service, including at the Cabinet Office, where she led the UK Government’s Places for Growth programme, and at the Department for International Development, where she oversaw global operational functions and corporate crisis response. Earlier in her career, she held roles at Dell Technologies and The National Trust.
Motivated by public service and purpose-led work, Anne was awarded an OBE for services to international development and serves as a Trustee of Trees for Life, a leading rewilding charity in the Scottish Highlands.