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Daniel Cade is a leading expert in responsible decision-making with 15 years of international experience in sustainability and ESG. As a consultant for World Taekwondo, he has developed and coordinated the implementation of their sustainability strategy and recently produced their first sustainability report. Through his consultancy, Responsible Sport, Daniel advises on strategic sustainability practices and emphasises education to drive impactful change. He is also the creator of the Sustainability in Sport Online Course, developed in collaboration with Global Sustainable Sport.

Briony Latter is a climate change researcher focusing on people and society. She is a Research Associate at the UK Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) at Cardiff University where she recently completed a PhD. She has worked across freelance, organisational and academic research roles and has a background in the creative industry and communications.

Her work covers public engagement, social transformations across different sectors and scales, and arts, culture and sport. This has included projects about sustainable audience travel to live music events, co-design research with older people about healthy ageing, climate conversations between hairdressers and clients, and low-carbon culture and practices in universities. Briony is also the Environmental Officer for the Welsh Fell Runners Association (WFRA), where she has set up their Environment Awards and created climate and environmental guidance for the fell running community.

Sander van Stiphout is leading the innovation and advisory departments of the Johan Cruijff ArenA and is part of the stadium’s Management Team for many years.

What drives Sander is to contribute to a sustainable stadium with great fan engagement. Sustainability does entail ESG as well as financial sustainability to be able to continuously adapt to changing demands of any kind.

To achieve tangible goals for the stadium and its main stakeholders Ajax, KNVB and the City of Amsterdam he drives innovation among ecosystem partners such as large corporates, government, knowledge institutes, SME’s and start-ups, using the stadium as a field lab.

Sander has worked on stadium projects worldwide and was involved in projects related to all recent major tournaments, such as the Russia and Brazil World Cups. Sander was special stadium operations consultant to the Qatar Supreme Committee in relation to the FIFA World Cup 2022 preparations. Currently he serves as an advisor to the French Ministry of Finance supporting the operations tender of the Stade de France.

Jack is Head of Public Policy and Business Lead for Sustainability at the LTA, the national governing body for tennis in Britain, and has worked at the organisation for nearly four years. As well as leading on all policy and public affairs work for the LTA, he helped develop, and now supports delivery of, the organisation’s first ever Environmental Sustainability plan, which was published earlier this year.

Prior to joining the LTA, Jack worked for a small sport-focused public affairs consultancy, working across a range of different sports to provide policy and public affairs support.

Jack also sits on the Board of the Sport and Recreation Alliance as a non-Executive Director.

Libi Newell is Head of Corporate Sustainability within the Sustainable Golf team at The R&A. Libi directs the organisations work across operational sustainability and leads development and implementation of The R&A’s Greenlinks programme for sustainable championships, embedding meaningful action within The AIG Women’s Open and The Open, focused on themes of low carbon, circular economy, social value and nature protection. Recognising golf’s intrinsic relationship with the natural environment, and the responsibility and opportunities that poses biodiversity is a core focus of The R&A’s Sustainable Golf teams global work.

With a background in conservation and master degree in Ecotourism Libi has now worked in sustainability in sport over the past 12 years Libi’s previous experience includes the Olympic and Commonwealth Games as well as supporting a range sport organisations as a freelance consultant prior to joining The R&A at the end of 2022.

Monica is a Senior Manager with WM Advisory Services. She oversees a team of consultants who advise built facilities in the sports and entertainment industry while working closely alongside WM’s brand and sponsorship team to infuse the company’s sustainability values across its sports sponsorship portfolio. With more than a decade of experience in sustainability, including nine years of work in sports and collegiate sustainability, Monica specializes in program development for responsible procurement, materials management, and stakeholder behavior change.

Before joining WM, Monica co-founded an independent consulting group focused on increasing the presence of sustainability in sports sponsorships. She continues this work at WM, both internally and for their advisory customers. Monica played a key role in designing the sustainability execution side of WM and Major League Baseball’s latest official sustainability partnership. In addition to a BA in Geography and Environmental Studies from UCLA, she has received an MBA from University of Colorado Boulder. Monica is also a LEED Green Associate, TRUE Advisor, and Loyola University New Orleans Environmental Communications Fellow.

Simon Dawes is the Head of Net Zero and Circular economy within the Environment Agency. A thought leader and change maker, he is a recognised sustainability leader and has worked in the sector for over 20 years, delivering award winning sustainability and net zero strategies and behaviour change campaigns.

As a lover of outdoor sports and winter sports, Simon combines his two passions of sport and sustainability in his role as Chair of Protect Our Winters (UK). POW is on a mission to bring the outdoor sports communities together to drive systemic change to enable to the UK to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Matt is the joint managing director at Travel Places – leading travel management specialists to the sports, media and entertainment industries. Matt has over 20 years’ experience working with some of the world’s leading athletes, teams and brands, managing travel plans for organisations such as The Football Association, the England and Wales Cricket Board and Sail GP.

With a long heritage managing group travel for professional sports teams, Travel Places remains family-owned and run to this day. Placing people and planet and its heart, Matt heads up Travel Places’ sustainability management team aimed at increasing our positive impact on the world, and supporting its community of staff, local suppliers, and charities. He has successfully steered the business through the certifications for ISO 20121:2012 standard for Sustainable Event Management, which the business has held since 2022, and B Corp, which Travel Places received in 2023.

Kevin is a professor at the Department of Kinesiology of National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, R. O. C. He specialises in sports marketing, event management, and sports policy. He has been intensively involved in international multi-sport events, including the Kaohsiung World Games 2009, Taipei Deaflympics 2009, and the Taipei Universiade, and now is helping the World Master Games 2025. He and his team are also deeply passionate about environmental sustainability and committed to
taking concrete actions to mitigate climate change.

Jonny Wilkinson is widely acknowledged as one of the best rugby union players of all time.

He was an integral member of the England Rugby World Cup-winning squad, scoring the winning drop goal in the last minute of extra time to defeat Australia in the 2003 final.

He won two European Cups plus a top 14 Title with Toulon where he moved to in 2008 following twelve seasons in the English Premiership with the Newcastle Falcons. Jonny has also toured twice with the British and Irish Lions, in 2001 to Australia and in 2005 to
New Zealand.

Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2015, Jonny was named BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year in 2003 and IRB International Player of the year in the same year.

His converted penalty against Scotland on 8 March 2008, took him 3 points past Neil Jenkins record tally of 1090 test points and he also passed Ronan O’Gara to regain the overall points scoring record for the Six Nations during the 2010 tournament.

Jonny holds the all-time Rugby World Cup points scoring record with 277 and is the only player in history to score points in two Rugby World Cup Finals.

He is passionate about physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and the sustainability of the planet. He talks about wellbeing and sustainability at a number of levels including the opportunity for growth and the inherent relationship between performance and sustainability.

He is proud to be sharing a platform at the Sport Positive Summit with experts from RSK.