Rodney Walker (sports administrator)

Sir Rodney Myerscough Walker (born 10 April 1943) is a British sports administrator and current Chairman of the British Basketball League.

He was Chairman of Wakefield Trinity RLFC between 1986 and 1993; the Rugby Football League between 1993 and 2002; GB Sports Council between 1994 and 1996; Sport England between 1996 and 1998 and UK Sport between 1997 and 2003.He was also chairman of the World Snooker Association for several years before being replaced by Barry Hearn in 2009.

Sir Rodney has been Chairman of Goals Soccer Centres Plc since 2002. Goals is an operator of five-a-side soccer centres throughout Scotland and England, with 42 sites operational, further sites under development and with a long term "roll out" programme which envisages a minimum 4 new openings each year for the foreseeable future. The company has recently set up a joint venture in the United States & has licensed the Goals name into South Africa, Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland.

Sir Rodney is the controlling shareholder of Myerscough Holdings Ltd. Group companies are involved in property development, management, investment & architecture. At the request of Wakefield MDC, Sir Rodney took on the chairmanship of The Wakefield & District Community Trust. The trust is intending to arrange the funding for a new £15 million, 10,000 capacity stadium & associated facilities to serve the Wakefield community. Having failed to make any progress on the delivery of the Community Stadium, he resigned as Chairman in February 2017 & was replaced by Jonathan Stone.

He is a trustee of the London Marathon Charitable Trust, a Trustee of the Wembley National Stadium Trust, Vice President of the Youth Charter for Sport and vice President of the Federation of Disability Sports Organisations. He was a Vice Chairman of the NSPCC Full Stop Appeal and was chair of the Sports Steering Group which raised £25 million for the campaign. He has recently been elected an Honorary Member of the Society in recognition of his contribution to the charity. He is Vice Chairman of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park & the Yorkshire Landscape Trust Ltd and was Chairman of Art Transpennine ’98.

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