Programme for Play the Game 2025

Beyond the flag: Indigenous and refugee athletes in global sports

17.15
Room: Small auditorium
Chair: Nikki Dryden

• Equality for Afghan women athletes
  Friba Rezayee, executive director, Women Leaders of Tomorrow, Afghanistan
• Smashing Boundaries: The Fight for Recognition of Afghanistan’s Women Cricketers
  Catherine Ordway, sport integrity consultant, freelance, Australia
• Beyond Performative Recognition: FIFA, Human Rights Frameworks, and the Marginalization of Indigenous Sovereignty
  Hillary Jeanne Haldane, professor, Quinnipiac University, USA & Andrew Grainger, lecturer, Western Sydney University, Australia
• Canada's Future of Sport Commission and the Telling of First Nation Truths
  Laura Robinson, journalist, freelance, Canada, & Rose Hope Kewageshig, journalist research assistant, McClelland & Stewart, Canada
• Panel debate, Q&A: All speakers
  
  

Safe sport solutions: From frameworks to real impact

17.15
Room: Duetto 1
Chair: Andrea Florence

• Building a National Framework for Safe Sport in Finland: Simple solutions for complex problems?
  Marko Kananen, research manager, Finnish Center for Integrity in Sports, Finland, & Elina Laine, sustainability
  manager, Finnish Olympic Committee, Finland 
• Safe Sport according to child and adult athletes
  Jatta Muhonen, doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
• The Australian Way: Embedding Integrity Across Sport Sector Strategies – Australia’s National Vision for Safe, Fair and Inclusive Sport 
  Karina Chilman, assistant director - Major sporting events and international engagement, Sport Integrity Australia, Australia
• Beyond Compliance: Principle-Led, Contextually Relevant Safeguarding That Delivers Real Impact
  Neal Anderson, COO, Safe Sport International, UK
• Panel debate, Q&A: All speakers
  
  

Empowering whistleblowers: Transforming anti-doping intelligence and protecting those that chose to report 

17.15
Room: Duetto 2
Chair: Blake Davidson

Session organised by RealResponse

Panellists

• Kim Højgaard Ravn, director, Anti Doping Danmark, Denmark
• Jeff Cook, chief legal and operations officer, USADA, USA
• Nick Raudenski, independent consultant, RISC - Raudenski Integrity & Sports Consultancy, USA
• Panel debate, Q&A: All speakers
  
  

Playing with fire: Fossil fuels' grip on world sport 

17.15
Room: Maestro
Chair: Sven Daniel Wolfe

• The intimate relathionship between football and fossil fuels sponsoring
  Robin Cartier, activist/student, Fossil Free Football/Malmö University, France
• The Sport Sponsorship Strategies of the Fossil Fuel Industry
  Theo Frixou, PhD student, Sport Environment Sociology, Loughborough University London, UK
• An Unsustainable Relationship: the dangers of global sport's bargain with Aramco, and how to push back
  James Lynch, director, FairSquare, UK
• What Will a Greenwashing Ban Entail for the European Sport Sector? Adapting to the New EU Green Claims Directive
  Chris Horbel, professor, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Germany
• Panel debate, Q&A: All speakers
  
  

Illegal betting: A black spot on sports integrity

17.15
Room: Riffi
Chair: Andreas Selliaas

• Offshore betting regulators: The new frontiers
  Marko Begović, professor, Molde University College Norway, Montenegro
• Against All Odds: Tackling Sports Betting and Match-Fixing in Africa
  Brian Wesaala, founder & CEO, The Football Foundation for Africa (FFA), Kenya
• The Wartime Gamble
  Jack Kerr, investigative journalist, Josimar, Australia
• T10 and illegal betting: Cricket’s integrity blackspot
  Steve Menary, reporter, freelance, UK
• Panel debate, Q&A: All speakers
  
  

Elite sport systems in international perspetive: New competitive models in the global arms race

17.15
Room: Aaria
Chair: Klaus Nielsen

Session organised by Rasmus K. Storm and Klaus Nielsen

• Elite Sport in the Nordic Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden
  Klaus Nielsen, professor, Birkbeck - University of Denmark, Denmark
• The Influence of Power on the Construction of Athletes’ Agency and Mental Health Challenges
  Veera Manninen, doctoral researcher, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• The Success of the British Elite Sport System: Some Reflections on cause and effect
  Jonathan Grix, head of the Sport Policy Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Finnish Elite Sport: Systemic Changes and Public Perceptions
  Kati Lehtonen, principal researcher, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland, & Jarmo Mäkinen, senior researcher, Finnish Institute of HP Sport KIHU, Finland
• World Ranking of Countries in Elite Sport and how it allows to identify the factors leading to countries' success in elite sport: geography, genetics, interest, funding, transparency and expertise
  Nadim Nassif, associate professor, PES NDU-Louaize Lebanon, Lebanon
• Panel debate, Q&A: All speakers