The Sport and Recreation Alliance is pleased to announce the appointment of Emma Boggis as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Emma joins the Alliance from the Cabinet Office, where she has most recently been head of the Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Unit, set up in 2012 to support Lord Coe in his role as the Prime Minister’s Legacy Ambassador.
Alliance Chair Andy Reed OBE believes that Emma’s background and leadership skills will stand the organisation in good stead as it adopts its new vision and mission.
"We are really pleased that Emma will be joining us to take the Alliance forward with our plans to continually modernise our services and be an effective voice for the sector.
"Emma has a proven track record in her work with the Legacy Unit and has impressed us all with her insight and experience. We are confident she will make an immediate impact when she starts in September. "
Emma leaves a long and richly varied career in the civil service and the military to become the Alliance’s Chief Executive but is excited to be dedicating her time to a sector which she feels has an exciting future.
“I am thrilled to be joining the Alliance. Working on the legacy from London 2012 has been a great privilege and experience and I am very happy to be able to continue to develop my association with sport in this new role.
"Sport has played an important part in my life so it is great to have the opportunity to work on behalf of the Alliance’s members to support them and the impact they have on others.
“I believe there are many exciting opportunities for sport and recreation and I’m looking forward to playing my part in making sure that every bit of our sector’s potential is realised.
“I have already met some of the Alliance’s members through my work at the Legacy Unit but my first job will be to get to know the rest, to listen to their priorities and to set to work on making sure that we at the Alliance are doing everything we can to lead the sector and provide our members with the clear and independent voice that they want.”
Emma’s previous roles have included Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and Deputy Head of Mission in the British Embassy in Madrid.
Her early career started in the British Army where she had operational tours in Northern Ireland and Kosovo. Emma is a keen sportswoman – with a number of marathons and triathlons under her belt along with a few long distance cycle rides.
