Sir Bob divides his time between Manchester and London. He was Chief Executive of the Greenwich Millennium Fund Trust in London, he is Special Projects Director for the Apollo leisure group and he also acts as Consultant to the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.

He was born in Minehead, Somerset and educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and is the son of a former British Ambassador, Sir David Scott.

He was the Chairman of the Manchester Olympic Bid Committee, formed in 1985, the body which campaigned to host the Olympic games in the years 1996 and 2000. He was also Chairman of the Manchester Bid Committee which recently won the bid to host the Commonwealth Games of 2002.

He arrived in Manchester in 1968 via an Arts Council Bursary, to be the first Administrator of the 69 Theatre Company. As the Administrator of the Royal Exchange Theatre Trust, he was deeply involved in the creation and first years of that theatre which opened in 1976. As Managing Director of Manchester Theatres Limited, he led the revival of the two major theatres in the city, the Palace and the Opera House. He is now Special Projects Director for Apollo Leisure.

Sir Bob is Chairman of Piccadilly Radio and the Granada Foundation. He was the founder and first Chairman of Cornerhouse, Manchester’s film and visual arts centre. 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. He has been a board member of the Central Manchester Development Corporation since it started in 1988.

He has received Honorary Degrees from Manchester University in 1988 and from Salford University in 1991. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Manchester Polytechnic, UMIST and the Royal Northern College Of Music and is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Greater Manchester.

Among several awards he has received, he is the only person to have made Manchurian of the year twice in 1981 and 1993. He won the individual ETB England For Excellence Award For Tourism in 1993 and was named BAIE Communicator Of The Year in 1994 and was appointed on Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1991.

Robert Scott was knighted in the 1994 New Years Honours list.