Currently, serves as Chair of the Latin America Sustainability Committee at SIGA (Sport Integrity Global Alliance) and ESG sponsor of Coritiba SAF, a football club in Paraná, Brazil. Rodrigo has over 25 years of experience in the sports sector, is a Journalist and Master in Business Administration, with an emphasis on organizational strategies, communication, and marketing. He is founder of the FairPlay Ambiental project, focused on integrating sustainability into the sports industry. Rodrigo won the 2024 Sport Positive Award for Regional Leader in South America.
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Hannah Mansour
Hannah Mansour is Director of ESG at Arsenal Football Club, where she leads the club’s environmental sustainability strategy and drives the integration of ESG across the organisation. She has played a key role in developing Arsenal’s sustainability programme, including achieving the world’s first Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)-validated net zero target for a football club and delivering initiatives that engage fans, staff and partners in climate action. With a background in sustainability, innovation and business transformation, Hannah is passionate about the power of sport to accelerate environmental progress and create lasting positive impact for our communities.
Alex Piper
Alex spent over five years with Liverpool Football Club’s Partnerships team, where he bridged commercial strategy with sustainability impact. He drove revenue growth while advancing The Red Way, the Club’s award-winning sustainability programme.
Beyond LFC, Alex served as a trustee and now acts as commercial advisor to Pledgeball, a charity empowering fans, clubs and federations to address climate change and environmental sustainability. Pledgeball was named Grassroots Organisation of the Year at the 2024 BBC Green Sport Awards.
Ramiro Pazos
Ramiro Pazos has served as the sustainability leader at Racing Club since 2015. He is also the sports director of the consulting firm Proyecto Sustentable, where he develops environmental initiatives for the Argentine sports industry in general.
He has been working on sustainability-related issues in sports for ten years, with valuable experience in communications and sports management.
James Beale
James is responsible for driving forward the club’s environmental sustainability and the community strategies, making positive impact across the organisation and advancing action across our staff, players, fans and in our wider community.
John Muddeman
For 20 years, John has worked in the sports events industry across a multitude of sports and events staged across the UK and the world.
John is currently the Event Director for the World Boxing Championships taking place in Liverpool this September, an event set to be the largest international boxing tournament in history, and aiming to set new standards for the sport in community and social engagement, whilst committing to show the global boxing community that these events can be delivered successfully whilst placing sustainability at the forefront of its planning.
Previously, John has worked across local and national government, as well as supporting dozens of national governing bodies to develop and delivery their major event hosting aspirations.
Seán McCabe
Seán McCabe leads climate justice initiatives through the platform of football, using the global reach of the game to drive inclusive, cooperative solutions to social and environmental challenges. At Bohemian Football Club, he has built a team dedicated to developing community wealth building climate actions that can be scaled internationally through football’s networks. With over 18 years’ experience across grassroots and global arenas, Seán has helped shape multilateral climate agreements with the Mary Robinson Foundation, strengthen environmental protections with the Sierra Leone EPA, and advance children’s environmental rights with UNICEF and the UNCRC. As the architect of The People’s Transition, developed with TASC and FEPS, he has championed community-led strategies that position climate action as a driver of equity, dignity, and development.
Dr. Sasha Sutherland
Dr. Sasha Sutherland is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization (RADO). In her role she manages teams in the 18 Caribbean RADO member countries to strengthen their anti-doping frameworks. She is also a lecturer at The University of the West Indies and serves as a Director of the Barbados Olympic Association Inc., where she is Chair of the Education Commission, a member of the Governance Commission and Sustainability Lead.
With a desire to increase awareness around issues of gender (in)equality, governance and doping in sport, she has published work on menstrual health, Sport for Development, sexism and sport impacts on girls and women, and gender and race in sport. She is also Chair of the Barbados Girls Cricket Club- the first of its kind in the Caribbean. Here she is committed, with her team, to provide safe spaces for girls to participate in and thrive in and through sport.
She is a former triple-discipline athlete of Lawn Tennis, Football and Hockey and enjoys Open Water Swimming who brings her knowledge of being athlete, administrator and academic together to inform the world in any way she can.
Theo Keeping
Theodore Keeping is a Climate Scientist who works for World Weather Attribution at Imperial College London.
He researches how highly impactful extreme weather is changing in severity and regularity in response to climate change with a focus on wildfires. Keeping’s work also investigates how intensifying extreme weather events are impacting human health, for example due to heat waves or smoke from wildfires.
Rodrigo Lois
Rodrigo Lois is a sports journalist from media group Globo (Brazil). He works as reporter and TV producer, specialised in international football. Rodrigo runs a section on the show “Redação”, from TV channel “sportv”, called “Clima em Jogo” (Climate in game). This section is about how sports, specially football, relates to climate change.
Rodrigo Lois has more than 15 years of experience covering the sports industry, mainly football. He was a TV correspondent in Berlin in 2014, for “sportv”. He has covered FIFA World Cups, Olympic Games and other sports great events. The journalist also did articles and lives transmitions about Chapecoense’s air tragedy, Covid-19 pandemic and burnings at Pantanal.
