We have the pleasure of announcing the following names as speakers at Play the Game 2007.

We will continue to update this list with further speakers, as and when names are confirmed.

Profiles for some of our confirmed speakers are available by clicking on the speaker's name. Profiles unavailable now will now will be uploaded in due course (*).

To download available speaker presentations, please click here (this list will continue to be updated after the close of Play the Game 2007)

Please note that all programme elements are subject to change.

Official opening by

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson (Iceland) President of the Republic of Iceland, International Board Member of the Special Olympics

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

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 

Jonathon 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

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

Georg 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

Alex Figueroa Journalist, Catano, Puerto Rico

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

Antti Laine   University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

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 Patel Department of Economics, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Rachel Payne Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Australia

Gertrud Pfister University 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

Claude Sobry Professor, Director FSSEP University of Lille 2, France

Andy Stevens Event and Venue Management consultant, London, United Kingdom

Jan Toftegaard Støckel Lecturer, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Olukayode Thomas Sports Editor, Osodi, Nigeria