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For nearly fifteen years Kelli has been helping to inspire, support and champion sustainability and climate action in and through golf.  As Executive Director of the GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf, she manages organisation operations and the effective development and delivery of programmes and services to meet global stakeholder needs and the overall strategic vision for golf courses, tournaments, players and associations.  Prior to joining the sport and sustainability movement, Kelli was at Microsoft’s Seattle headquarters in product management and strategic relations.

In 2006 he published The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football – the definitive history of the game – and in 2019 brought it up to date with a successor, The Age of Football: The Global Game in The Twenty First Century. In between he published books on Brazilian football, the history of the Olympics, and in 2015 won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for The Game of Our Lives: The Making and Meaning of English Football. He has been described by Prof.Dominic Sandbrook of Oxford University, in the Sunday Times, as “not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been.”

He currently teaches for the Football Business Academy in Geneva, is a regular visiting Professor at Pitzer College, Los Angeles, and is an Honorary Fellow of the International Centre for the Culture and History of Sport at De Monfort University, Leicester.

His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Prospect, New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement and many other publications. He has won the sports story of the year at the Foreign Press Association Media Awards in London three times, In 2009, for the BBC World Service documentary Mathare United. which showcased the power of football for social development in the slums of urban Kenya ; in 2015 for “The Prison Where Murderers who Play for Manchester United” published in The Guardian, which reported on the role of a DIY English Premier League and Prison football association in turning Luzira, Uganda’s notorious high security jail, into one of Africa’s most humane and progressive prisons; and in 2018 for “Viktor Orban’s Reckless Football Obsession”, published in The Guardian, which featured the first interview with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban with a foreign newspaper for more than a decade. It was shortlisted for the European Media Awards in 2019.

In 2020 he published Playing against the Clock: Global Sport and The Climate Crisis and has been working and campaigning on these issues ever since.

Radzi is one of Britain’s most talented and experienced television presenters having started out his presenting career on the BBC’s landmark children’s show, Blue Peter. He has since gone on to be a regular face on our screens, presenting shows for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. January 2020 saw Radzi take on his latest challenge, as a contestant on series 13 of ITV’s Dancing on Ice. In addition, this year saw the launch of My World, a ground-breaking global news programme for young audiences, explaining the stories behind the headlines and combatting fake news, which Radzi presents. He was particularly thrilled to work on the show alongside executive producer Angelina Jolie.

His passion for Sport has led Radzi to present several major events throughout the years, from the London Marathon to the Boat Race, World Indoor Athletics Championships and the Snooker, Radzi is a regular face of sports broadcasting. Radzi is also a stalwart of the UK Wrestling scene working as a presenter for the WWE’s flagship show, NXT UK. It made history as the first ever UK-specific television series on the WWE Network starting in October of 2018 and he has worked as a vital part of the team ever since. His passion and knowledge for athletics was evident when he presented the BBC’s coverage of the World Athletics Championships 2019 in Qatar. And in January 2019 he joined the Sky Sports team, presenting the first NBA game of the year on Sky Sports, live from the O2 Arena and anchoring the weekly, live NBA highlights show every Sunday night. In addition, acting as a pitch-side reporter at the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup and hosting the 2019 World’s Ultimate Strongman competition, Giants Live on Channel 5.

 

Responsible for leading and influencing sustainable development, operations and events with a wide-ranging social, environmental and commercial programme that engages all parts of the Club – and CFG – and its work, its
fans, communities and partners, measuring and reporting the impacts transparently and consistently.

Pete has worked in the sport and leisure field since the mid 1970s with key roles in leisure management, sports development, health education, strategic regeneration and in sustainable development.

Working in the UK and overseas, Pete has developed his career to help build strong and successful organisational structures and responsible change and development.

Born and educated in Manchester; a swimmer and water polo player ‘by trade’, Pete attended his first Manchester City match in 1963. An alumni of Hulme’s Birley High School and (masters) of the University of Leicester.

A published author – a Mancunian through and through – Pete is confident that the spirit of industry, invention, innovation and change is alive and well – creating wide ranging benefits and opportunities with security in learning, health and wellbeing above all – so that we prosper – together.

Hattie Park is the Sustainability Manager at Wimbledon, leading their Environment Positive strategy. She is an environmental sustainability specialist with fifteen years’ experience developing and delivering corporate sustainability strategies. At Wimbledon she is involved in everything from integrating sustainability within long-term regeneration plans and emission reporting, to delivering Championship-specific initiatives. She joined the AELTC in February 2019 after 9 years as sustainability manager at the BBC.

David Garrido is a Sky Sports presenter with almost 25 years’ experience in the industry, and he is widely considered one of the leading communicators and content-makers for sport and sustainability in the UK and Europe. His documentary, ‘Football’s Toughest Opponent’, explores the relationship between the biggest sport in the world and the climate crisis, and his ongoing episodic series, ‘Playing For The Planet’, profiles elite athletes and their journeys in climate action. Recent guests include British men’s tennis number 1 Cam Norrie, Premier League footballer Ben Mee, double Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills and marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge.

Iris studied an MA in History and Sociology of the Middle East at the University of Erfurt (2019 to 2022) and the University of Saint Joseph in Beirut as well as an MA in Peace and Conflict Management at the University of Haifa (Topol Fellow) from 2018 to 2019. She is a passionate footballer who is responsible for social media, communication and workshop delivery for Spirit of Football’s “One Ball, One World” project. She especially likes to deliver workshops that inspire people and organisations to take sustainable action and to use social media to communicate participants’ stories and ideas. She co-led Spirit of Football’s global sustainability project “One Ball, One World” which took The Ball across 21 countries in 13 months – learning about and advocating for climate action.

Chris Broadbent has worked in senior roles in Olympic sport for 25 years. He is Founder and CEO of Planet Earth Games Trust, a UK-wide charity on a mission to inspire people to active and sustainable lives through the power of sport and physical activity. The charity has collaborated with scores of UK Sports Governing Bodies, professional sports clubs, non-profits and sustainable businesses to engage tens of thousands of people in community, education and workplace settings. Planet Earth Games has worked particularly closely with Youth Sport Trust, School Games and Association of Colleges, which led to the charity collecting the BASIS Sustainable Sports Award for Education in 2022. They are set to launch a new community plogging programme in November 2023.

Lydia Carrington is Sustainability Manager at Warwickshire County Cricket Club who leads Edgbaston Stadium on the venues sustainability strategy and targets. Through educating and inspiring change, she takes pride in encouraging interaction and engagement amongst spectators, fans and staff, whilst driving down the environmental impact of the Stadium’s emissions through the use of new technologies and verified data.

She has led Edgbaston Stadium to become the first cricket ground in the UK to gain the ISO20121 accreditation, highlighting their commitment to Sustainable Event Management. She also led the planning and delivery of the UK’s first sustainable international cricket matchday, the Go Green Game, held in September 2023. The event aimed to reduce operational emissions, whilst engaging and educating spectators and viewers from around the world using the sports industry platform.