Bob Scott (businessman)

Sir Robert David Hillyer Scott (born 22 January 1944) is an English businessman in South London who is noted for his involvement with the International Olympic Committee.

He has a younger brother, Andrew, and a sister, Diana, married Sir Brian Unwin.

He has been a Governor of the Royal Northern College of Music, a Director of the Buxton Festival, the Halle Orchestra and the Whitworth Art Gallery.

Scott was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1994 New Year Honours, for services to sport and to the community in Manchester.

[7] On 16 July 2010, Sir Bob received his honorary doctorate in arts from Leeds Metropolitan University's Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education.