David Moffett (born 17 April 1947) is a businessman who has been the head of Sport England, New Zealand Rugby, Australia's National Rugby League, and the Welsh Rugby Union. Moffett has been involved in New Zealand politics, serving briefly on the board of the New Conservative Party and founding a political party, New NZ; this party later merged with the Outdoors Party and Moffett became its executive director. Biography David Moffett was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire, England. His family moved to Kenya when he was three, and he was raised in Kenya and Tanganyika during the last years of colonial Africa. He moved to Australia at age sixteen with his father after his parents split up. Moffett has at least one child: a son who he says he named after the rugby league player Graeme Langlands. Moffett is a naturalised Australian, though as of 2019 Moffett was living in rural north Canterbury in New Zealand, owning 10 hectares as a blockholder. Sports administration Moffett's roles in sports administration have included: An administrator at the International Rugby Board; One of the chief architects of SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby) in 1996; Executive director of the New South Wales Rugby Union, starting in 1992; Chief executive at the New Zealand Rugby Union from 1996 to 2000, being the first non-New Zealander to hold the role; Chief executive at Australia's National Rugby League, starting in 1999. The appointment of a rugby union executive to oversee rugby league led to speculation that he was there to merge the two sports, but this did not eventuate. He held this position until 2001; Chief executive of Sport England: Moffett left Sport England acrimoniously in 2002 after only 10 months in the job, and complained that he was restricted "by too many committees run by too many blazers". He earned £140,000 a year in the role; Chef executive officer of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) from 2002 to 2005. Moffett was offered the role of chief executive for the English Football Association in 2003, but turned the position down. Welsh Rugby Union Moffett was the CEO of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) from 2002 to 2005. He took up his post at the WRU on 2 December 2002 having beaten off over 100 other applicants to the job, and immediately set about controlling the WRU's finances who were by this time heavily in