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Webinar: Towards an entity countering corruption and crime in sport
How can the fight against integrity breaches in sport best be strengthened? That was the overarching question when the ClearingSport project presented its proposal for an international entity able to counter crime, corruption, and other breaches of integrity in sport in a webinar Thursday 3 April.
You can view a recording of the webinar below and read more about the findings of the ClearingSport project on this theme page.
The full programme
15.30 Welcome and housekeeping
- Stanis Elsborg, head of Play the Game
15.40: Why ClearingSport, and what have we produced
- Jens Sejer Andersen, senior advisor, Play the Game
15.50: Challenges and tasks for a new centralised entity
- Chiel Warners, CW Consulting, chair of the Advisory Group
16.10 Principles of governance and proposed structure
- Arnout Geeraert, assistant professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
16.20: Panel 1 - Why ClearingSport matters to advisers
- Drago Kos, anti-corruption expert, Slovenia
- Steven Berryman, principal, Berryman Prime LLC, USA
- Allison Wagner, director of athlete & international relations, USADA, USA
- Brian Wesaala, founder and CEO, Football Foundation for Africa, Kenya
16.35: Q&A
16.50: Bio break
17.00: Panel 2 – Stakeholders’ take on ClearingSport
- Paulina Tomczyk, secretary general, EU Athletes, Spain
- Wilhelm Rauch, head of legal affairs, BASPO, Switzerland
- João Paulo Almeida, director general at Comité Olímpico de Portugal
- Tom Harding, senior vice president, global integrity operations, Sportradar, UK
17.30: Q&A
17.45: Panel 3 - Looking forward: Obstacles & opportunities
- Ingrid Beutler, senior partner, ThinkBeyond, Switzerland
- Teemu Japisson, secretary general, Finnish Center for Integrity in Sport (FINCIS), Finland
- Sophie Kwasny, head of the Sports Division, Council of Europe, France
18.05: Final round of Q&A
18.25: Closing remarks: Next steps for ClearingSport
