Speakers

Play the Game conferences always present a long line of expert speakers from various areas of world sport.

If you are not on the speaker list below, please contact Stanis Elsborg, head of Play the Game, at stanis@playthegame.org

Speakers who have confirmed their invitation and/or have had their abstract accepted and session chairpersons at Play the Game 2025 (in alphabetical order):

• Andrea Florence, director, Sport & Rights Alliance, Brazil
  
  
• Antti Aine, professor of sports law, University of Helsinki and University of Turku, Finland
  
  
• Aya Sadamasu, researcher, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba University, Japan
  
  
• Jens Sejer Andersen, founder and senior advisor, Play the Game, Denmark
  
  
• Karim Zidan, journalist, Play the Game and Sports Politika, Egypt
  
  
• Kati Lehtonen, principal researcher, Jamk University of Applied Sciences, Finland
  
  
• Philippe Auclair, investigative reporter, Josimar, France/UK
  
  
• Paul J. Greene, founding partner, Global Sports Advocates, LLC, USA
  
  
• Pim Verschuuren, senior lecturer, University Rennes 2, France
  
  
• Rasmus K. Storm, head of research, Play the Game, Denmark
  
  
• Rikke Rønholt Albertsen, board member, National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF), Denmark
  
  
• Sabrina Furtado, researcher, Instituto Inteligência Esportiva & Loughborough University, Brazil
  
  
• Shane Britten, former Director of Australian intelligence agency, founder of Social Protect and CEO of Crime Stoppers International, Australia
  
  
• Shireen Ahmed, journalist/academic, CBC Sports, Canada/Pakistan
  
  
• Spencer Harris, professor, Colorado University Colorado Springs, USA
  
  
• Stanis Elsborg, head of Play the Game, Play the Game, Denmark
  
  
• Sven Daniel Wolfe, assistant professor, ETH Zürich, USA