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INTEGRITY and GOOD GOVERNANCE Staying Ahead of the Game INTEGRITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE Staying ahead of the game Sport Resolutions Conference Grange St Paul’s Hotel 5th May 2016 London ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Sport Resolutions is proud to present our second annual conference, Integrity and Good Governance: Staying Ahead of the Game. Once again we promise to challenge and inform you about the issues that create conflict and disputes in sport. Our theme this year centres on the legal, ethical and cultural challenges facing the governance of sport. Our world-class line up of speakers will guarantee a day of lively debate, analysis and insight into the integrity and governance of sport. BBC 5 Live presenter Eleanor Oldroyd will host and facilitate the conference. “Lively debate, analysis and insight” 2 CONFERENCE 2016: INTEGRITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE WWW.SPORTRESOLUTIONS.CO.UK 3 SESSION DETAILS SESSION 1 SESSION 4 LESSONS IN GOOD GOVERNANCE: TALENT SELECTION IN SPORT: WHAT WENT WRONG AT FIFA? DO THE BEST GET PICKED? FIFA, the UCI and more recently the Sport is the one thing in our lives that is IAAF have all come under scrutiny for a pure meritocracy. You play well, score a the way their respective sports are goal, run the fastest time, achieve the best governed. In this session we ask whether score or take the most wickets and you are existing models of sport governance in the team. At the elite end of the game are fit for purpose. We explore the it means you secure the most lucrative problems faced by federations when contracts and become a household name. commercial interests conflict with ethical In this session we ask whether the sports and transparent governance of their industry is ahead of the game in identifying sport. What do we mean by transparency and selecting talent. Do the best always get and accountability? Is there a need picked to perform, coach, and govern in for greater independence? How is this sport? Is it acceptable that only a handful achieved? Do we need a new model for of professional football managers are from sport governance? Do federations have SESSION 3 black and ethnic minority backgrounds? the appetite for change? Is it inevitable that a majority of our Olympians and England Rugby World Cup DOPING POSITIVES players are educated at private schools? AND NEGATIVES: What prevents sports stars talking more HOW TO WIN BACK TRUST? SESSION 2 openly about their sexuality? Does it The conclusion of Dick Pound’s WADA matter how individuals are appointed and review of drug testing strikes at the SURVIVING ABUSE: elected to the boards of federations? How very heart of the way sport is governed. CREATING A SAFEGUARDING does under-representation of women in the Despite increased testing and scientific board room impact on the development CULTURE IN SPORT advances, anti-doping programmes are and commercialisation of sport? Sexual abuse scandals have hit some of failing. Drug cheats are getting away the major institutions in British society scot-free because of a lack of will among and as understanding of abuse has sports organisations, governments and grown organisations are having to face athletes to tackle the problem. How up to a growing number of complaints do we deter and catch drug cheats from survivors of abuse. In this session without casting doubt and suspicion we explore the issues for sport and on performances of honest and clean assess the progress made in preventing athletes? Are we entering a new era in and tackling abuse in sport. Does sport sport where high profile athletes need present a specific risk? What are the to be more proactive in proving they are legal, financial and reputational risks? clean? Is the athlete biological passport How can abuse in sport be prevented? the answer? What more can UKAD, WADA Is abuse in sport taken seriously and sport federations do to catch dopers enough? What can sport learn and to protect clean athletes? How do we from crises in other sectors? continue the fight against doping without losing the trust of clean athletes and sport fans? 4 CONFERENCE 2016: INTEGRITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE WWW.SPORTRESOLUTIONS.CO.UK 5 SPEAKERS RICHARD POUND is a Canadian lawyer and former Olympic LIZ NICHOLL OBE is Chief swimmer and commonwealth Executive of UK Sport. She has record holder, president of the played a pioneering role in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and development of the elite sport vice-president of the International Olympic JONATHAN BELLAMY is a system in the UK and is now approaching Committee (IOC). He is currently chairman barrister at 39 Essex Chambers her fifth summer Olympic Games. She is of the board of the Olympic Broadcasting specialising in commercial law a former international netball player, Services and recently chaired the WADA and sports law. His sports law Chief Executive of England Netball and Independent Commission into doping in Director of a World Netball Championship. ELEANOR OLDROYD is an work includes commercial contract disputes international athletics. award winning sports journalist (including player-agent, marketing and ANDY PARKINSON is Chief and BBC 5 Live presenter. In 25 ALEXANDRA WRAGE is president online gaming), insurance coverage, Executive Officer of British years at BBC Sport, she has and founder of the professional liability, regulatory, discipline Rowing, the governing body broadcast from major sporting events at US based anti-corruption and and selection/eligibility. He has advised for the sport of rowing with home and abroad, including Wimbledon, corporate transparency sports governing bodies on structural responsibility for the training and Formula One Grand Prix, the Rugby World organisation Trace International. She is an governance, competition law, negligence, selection of individual rowers and crews Cup, the Grand National, and many football expert in the topics of international law, historic sex abuse and judicial review representing Great Britain and for matches. Rio 2016 will be her seventh anti-corruption initiatives and the hidden issues. He is a practising Chartered participation in and the development summer Olympic Games, her tenth in total. costs of corruption. She is a former member Arbitrator, FA Rule K arbitrator and of rowing and indoor rowing in England. Eleanor was also part of the Test Match of FIFA’s Independent Governance arbitrator for Sports Resolutions’ He is the former Chief Executive of UK Special team for five years. She was Committee and served on the 2015 B20 Commercial, Football and Integrity & Anti-Doping, independent observer for named the Sports Journalists’ Association Taskforce on Anti-Corruption, which drafted Discipline Panels. WADA, and Medical & Scientific Director at Broadcast Presenter of the Year for 2014. recommendations to G20 leaders for RICHARD CABORN is a British the International Paralympic Committee. consideration in their global PAULA RADCLIFFE MBE is an Labour Party politician who MICHAEL PETHER is a partner economic policies. English long-distance runner. served as the Minister for Sport at global risk and insurance law She is the current women’s BRENDON BATSON OBE is a for a record period of time in the firm BLM. He has experience world record holder in the retired professional footballer who Blair Government. He was later appointed across a range of complex areas marathon. She is a former IAAF marathon became one of the pioneer black by Gordon Brown as the Prime Minister’s of personal injury litigation, including world champion and multiple winner of football players in England. He Ambassador for England’s 2018 World Cup catastrophic injury and disease. He is the London and New York Marathons. On started his career at Arsenal, before Bid with responsibility for lobbying FIFA. particularly noted as a specialist in the track she has been a 5000m captaining Cambridge United and ending his DR PHILIP HOPLEY is a defending abuse claims and often Commonwealth champion, 10,000m career prematurely at West Bromwich Albion Consultant Psychiatrist, Managing represents local authorities and religious European champion and 10,000m IAAF in 1982 after a serious playing injury. Director at Cognacity and a former and charitable organisations. World Championships silver medallist. Brendon is a special adviser to the Football semi-professional rugby player. He KENDRAH POTTS is a Legal Paula is an active campaigner against the Association, Trustee of the Professional is recognised as a leading expert in sport Director in the Sports Group at use of drugs in sport and has spoken Footballers’ Association and until recently mental health and runs the Cognacity Mishcon de Reya. Kendrah was publicly about the problems of athletes was chair of the diversity charity Sporting Sport Confidential Helpline supporting Legal Counsel to the Commission releasing their blood-test history. Equals. athletes from 14 sports across the UK. established by the UCI to investigate MICHAEL VAUGHAN OBE is JAMIE BAULCH is a British sprint JOHN MEHRZAD is a barrister doping and allegations of corruption and a retired cricketer who athlete and television presenter. at Littleton Chambers who mismanagement in cycling and was the represented Yorkshire and He is a 400m world indoor specialises in commercial, lead lawyer on integrity and anti-doping England. Known for his shrewd champion, 4 x 400m relay world employment and sports law. He for the London Organising Committee of captaincy and man management skills, he champion and 4 x 400m relay Olympic silver advises and represents athletes, coaches the Olympic and Paralympic Games. She captained England in 51 Tests between medallist. He narrowly missed out on gold at and sports organisations on contractual regularly advises SGBs, clubs, agents and 2003 and 2008. He was the captain of the the 1996 Olympic Games to a US team matters, discrimination and selection issues. athletes on regulatory issues and disciplinary England team when they regained the Ashes including Alvin Harrison, who subsequently He regularly appears before the High Court, cases, particularly in the fields of anti- in 2005, eighteen years after having last won served a four year doping ban.
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