Peter is a Visiting Professor of Sport in the Faculty of Enterprise & Innovation at Buckinghamshire New University. He retired in 1996, from Buckinghamshire County Council, from his position of Senior Education Officer (Family & Community Services) and Head of the Arts, Sport & Recreation Service. His 28 year career with the County Council also embraced major responsibilities in the fields of Youth & Community and Adult Continuing Education. During this time he served as Senior County Youth & Community Officer, Director of Staff Development & Training and the Director of Green Park Centre.
Since his retirement he has continued to work both professionally and as a volunteer in the world of sport, having been engaged by Sport England as a consultant on the corporate governance of sport and undertaken key roles for many sports bodies including as Interim Chief Executive of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation and England Netball. He continues to serve as Director, or has a major involvement in a number of key facilities and sports organisations in this country. These responsibilities include serving as a Vice President to HRH The Duke Edinburgh, of both the CCPR and Sports Leaders UK; as a Patron of the Youth Sport Trust.
He also currently represents Sport England as the Chairman of the Velodrome Trust - the National Cycling Centre in Manchester; as an Observer (formerly a Director), on the Board of the Manchester Sport & Leisure Trust, and was previosuly appointed by Sport England as the Executive Director of World Class Hockey.
He is a former Member of the GB Sports Council and has represented the UK on a number of pan European Working Groups on Youth Sport. In addition to his many international working group meetings across Europe, his sport and recreation speaking engagements have taken him from Melbourne to Moscow and from Prague to Tokyo. Peter has also been a Consultant on Sport & Recreation Management to the Sultanate of Oman, the University of Oman and the State of Bahrain.
He also serves as a Buckinghamshire Ambassador and in 2004 he was awarded an MBE for Services to sport.
He lives in Milton Keynes, with his wife Dorothy and has two children and five grandchildren, three eldest of whom, all pupils at the Royal Latin School, participate widely in the County youth sporting network.
