Speakers at Play the Game 2007
We have the pleasure of announcing the following names as speakers at Play the Game 2007.
Official opening by
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson (Iceland) President of the Republic of Iceland, International Board Member of the Special Olympics
Invited speakers (in alphabetical order)
Michael Ashenden Phd, Project Coordinator, Science and Industry Against Blood doping (SIAB) research consortium, Melbourne, Australia
Richard Bailey (United Kingdom) Director, Professor, University of Roehampton, Roehampton, United Kingdom
Susan Bissell (Canada) Chief, Implementing International Standards Unit, UNICEF Innocenti Research Center, Florence, Italy
Keld Boldinggard (Denmark) Denmark Under-20s and Under-21s National Football Team Coach
Henrik Brandt (Denmark) Director, Danish Institute for Sports Studies, Copenhagen
Simon Chadwick (United Kingdom) Co-Director, Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Ask Vest Christiansen (Denmark) Lecturer, Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Rachael Church-Sanders (United Kingdom) Editor of ezine Sport and Technology and Techonolgy Consultant for SportBusiness Group
Sandro Donati (Italy) Consultant of the Minister of Social Affairs, Italy
Mario Goijman (Argentina) Engineer, President of the former Argentine Volleyball Federation (Federación Argentina de Voleiból)
Dag Vidar Hanstad (Norway) PhD Student, The NorwegianSchool of Sport Sciences
Jonathan Hill (United Kingdom) Head of UEFA's Brussels Office
Declan Hill (Canada) Journalist and PhD student, Green College, The University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Shaka Hislop (Trinidad & Tobago) Professional Footballer and President of the Football Players Association of Trinidad and Tobago (FPATT)
Barrie Houlihan (UK) Professor, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
David Howman (New Zealand/Canada) Director General, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Jörg Jaksche (Germany) Professional cyclist
Andrew Jennings (United Kingdom) Journalist and author
Mogens Kirkeby (Denmark) Secretary General, International Sport and Culture Association, Denmark
Dr Markus Kurscheidt (Germany) Msc and PhD Economics, Senior Lecturer of Sport Management, School of Sport Science, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Sigmund Loland (Norway) Professor, Rector, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway
Pat McQuaid (Republic of Ireland) President, the Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union)
Andrew Moger (United Kingdom) MM Consulting
Bob Munro (Kenya) Chairman, Mathare United Football Club, Kenya
Verner Møller (Denmark) Professor, Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Niels Nygaard (Denmark) President of the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF)
James Oliver (United Kingdom) Journalist, BBC Panorama
Richard W. Pound (Canada) President, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Matthieu Reeb (Switzerland) Secretary General, Court of Arbitration for Sport, Switzerland
Magnus Scheving (Iceland) CEO, creator and co-founder of LazyTown Entertainment
Kim Schimmel (United States of America) Associate Professor of the Sociology of Sport, School of Exercise, Leisure and Sport, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Anne Schwöbel (Germany) Head of office, Transparency International, Switzerland
Giselher Spitzer (Germany) Lecturer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
George Springborg (Germany) International Media Coordinator, Streetfootballworld, Germany
James Stibbs (United Kingdom) Head of Communications, Central Council for Physical Recreation, United Kingdom
Brian Sturgess (United Kingdom) Publisher/Director of Soccer Investor; the University of Bournemouth
Thorolfur Thorlindsson (Iceland) Professor, Faculty of Social Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Professor Dr. Gerhard Treutlein (Germany) Heidelberg Doping Prevention Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
Pedro Velázquez (Spain) Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, The European Union, Brussells, Belgium
David Walsh (United Kingdom) Chief Sports Writer, The Sunday Times, United Kingdom
Jens Weinreich (Germany) Sports Editor, Author, Berliner Zeitung, Germany
Lars Werge (Denmark) Journalist, Ekstra Bladet, Denmark
Aidan White (Reupblic of Ireland) Secretary General, International Federation of Journalists (to be confirmed)
Also speaking at Play the Game 2007
In addition to our list of invited speakers, we have also accepted abstracts from the following speakers to present papers at Play the Game 2007.
Yann Abdourazakou PhD, Lecturer, FSSEP University of Lille 2, France
Eugene Aidman University of Adelaide, Australia
John Beech Head of Sport and Tourism Applied Research, Applied Research Centre for Sustainable Regeneration, Coventry University Business School, United Kingdom
Mel Brennan Towson University, Towson, Maryland, United States of America
Velayutham Chandrasekaran Journalist and Academic, Anna University, Chennai, India
Jonathan Ellis Charles Russell LLP, London, United Kingdom
Alex Figueroa Journalist, Catano, Puerto Rico
Borja García Department of Politics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Sean Hamil Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Garry Humphries Regional Manager – South West Queensland, Department of Local Government, Planning, Sport and Recreation
Mary Hums University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
Lisa Kihl University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Murali Krishnan Journalist, Indo-Asian News Service, India
Antti Laine University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Driton Latifi Journalist, Lajm Daily, Kosovo
Dr Roger LeBlanc École de kinésiologie et de récréologie, Moncton, Noueveau-Brunswick/New Brunswick, Canada
Ben LivingsSenior Lecturer in Law, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Kasper Lund Kirkegaard Researcher, Danish Institute for Sports Studies
Steve Menary Journalist and Author, Ringwood, United Kingdom
Ezequiel Fernández Moores Journalist, Diario La Nación, Argentina
Klaus Nielsen Professor, University of Roskilde and Birkbeck College, London
Norman O’Reilly B.Sc., MA, MBA, PhD, Director and Associate Professor, School of Sports Administration, Faculty of Management, Laurentian University
Amrish PatelDepartment of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Rachel Payne Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Australia
Dr. Ann Pegoraro Associate Director of the Institute for Sport Marketing, Laurentian University
Andrea Petroczi Course Director, Management, Sports and Exercise Science, Faculty of Science, Kingston University, London
Gertrud PfisterUniversity of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Werner Pitsch Lecturer, University of Saarbruecken, Germany
Kaveri Prakash Student, Sophia College, Mumbai, India
Paul Ruijsenaars Social psychologist; Owner of Ruijsenaars CS, coaching and advisory service
Michael Sauer Researcher, German Sports University, Cologne
Andreas Selliaas Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway
Martti Silvennoinen University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Tetyana Snopko Journalist PAN Football Magazine, Ukraine
Claude Sobry Professor, Director FSSEP University of Lille 2, France
Andy Stevens Event and Venue Management consultant, London, United Kingdom
Rasmus Storm Researcher, Danish Institute for Sports Studies, Denmark
Jan Toftegaard Støckel Lecturer, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Olukayode Thomas Sports Editor, Osodi, Nigeria
Lorenz UrsprungFederal Office of Sport, Magglingen, Switzerland
Kristen Worley Elite Cyclist and Water Skier, Canada
Fikir Yilkal Journalist, Ethiopian Radio and Television Organization, Ethiopia