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David Moffett
David Moffett (born 17 April 1947) is a businessman who has been the head of Sport England, New Zealand Rugby, Australia's National Rugby League, and the Welsh Rugby Union. Moffett has been involved in New Zealand politics, serving briefly on the board of the New Conservative Party and founding a political party, New NZ; this party later merged with the Outdoors Party and Moffett became its executive director.
David Moffett was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire, England. His family moved to Kenya when he was three, and he was raised in Kenya and Tanganyika during the last years of colonial Africa. He moved to Australia at age sixteen with his father after his parents split up.
Moffett has a son Graeme who he says he named after the rugby league player Graeme Langlands. Moffett also has a daughter named Kirsten.[citation needed]
Moffett is a naturalised Australian, though as of 2019 Moffett was living in rural north Canterbury in New Zealand, owning 10 hectares as a blockholder.
Moffett's roles in sports administration have included:
Moffett was offered the role of chief executive for the English Football Association in 2003, but turned the position down.
Moffett was the CEO of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) from 2002 to 2005. He took up his post at the WRU on 2 December 2002 having beaten off over 100 other applicants to the job, and immediately set about controlling the WRU's finances who were by this time heavily in debt (around £55 million) due to poor management of funds and expenditure on facilities such as the Millennium Stadium. Moffett created an 18-man board of directors, replacing a 27-man committee as part of his streamlining of administration at the Union.
Moffett also gained backing to dismiss the Wales 'A' Team, long considered an important development side playing at a level just below that of full international level, in order to save money and develop rugby players at a higher level.
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David Moffett
David Moffett (born 17 April 1947) is a businessman who has been the head of Sport England, New Zealand Rugby, Australia's National Rugby League, and the Welsh Rugby Union. Moffett has been involved in New Zealand politics, serving briefly on the board of the New Conservative Party and founding a political party, New NZ; this party later merged with the Outdoors Party and Moffett became its executive director.
David Moffett was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire, England. His family moved to Kenya when he was three, and he was raised in Kenya and Tanganyika during the last years of colonial Africa. He moved to Australia at age sixteen with his father after his parents split up.
Moffett has a son Graeme who he says he named after the rugby league player Graeme Langlands. Moffett also has a daughter named Kirsten.[citation needed]
Moffett is a naturalised Australian, though as of 2019 Moffett was living in rural north Canterbury in New Zealand, owning 10 hectares as a blockholder.
Moffett's roles in sports administration have included:
Moffett was offered the role of chief executive for the English Football Association in 2003, but turned the position down.
Moffett was the CEO of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) from 2002 to 2005. He took up his post at the WRU on 2 December 2002 having beaten off over 100 other applicants to the job, and immediately set about controlling the WRU's finances who were by this time heavily in debt (around £55 million) due to poor management of funds and expenditure on facilities such as the Millennium Stadium. Moffett created an 18-man board of directors, replacing a 27-man committee as part of his streamlining of administration at the Union.
Moffett also gained backing to dismiss the Wales 'A' Team, long considered an important development side playing at a level just below that of full international level, in order to save money and develop rugby players at a higher level.