David Tanner

Sir David Tanner led British Rowing through its richest ever period of success as Performance Director from 1996 to 2018.

Sir David is a successful leader in International Sport and in Education with wide Board experience as a non-Executive Director. He was the Performance Director for British Rowing for 21 years from 1996 to 2018.

Under his leadership Great Britain has become the world’s leading Olympic and Paralympic rowing nation, topping the Olympic/Paralympic Games’ medal tables for Rowing since Beijing 2008.

Before the days of Lottery funding for sport, Sir David was a medal-winning Olympic coach which he combined with a successful full-time career in Education, latterly as Headteacher of a large Community Comprehensive School until he took up the PD role in 1996.

Sir David was appointed OBE (2003), CBE (2009) and in 2013 received a Knighthood from the Queen for Services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.