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Speakers at Play the Game 2007

 

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


 

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 Livings Senior 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 Patel Department 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 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


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 Ursprung Federal Office of Sport, Magglingen, Switzerland 

 

Kristen Worley Elite Cyclist and Water Skier, Canada


Fikir Yilkal Journalist, Ethiopian Radio and Television Organization, Ethiopia

 


Play the Game

Speeches will also be made by Play the Game Chairman Jens Brinch and Director, Jens Sejer Andersen

(*) If you are speaking at Play the Game 2007 and would like to submit a conference profile, please email michael@playthegame.org with your details.

 

 

 

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