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Spencer is Director of Strategy at CIMSPA (Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport & Physical Activity) where he leads on Education standards and Regulation, Partnerships (Education/Employers/System Partners), and Workforce Governance.

Rob Morini is Head of Sporting System at UK Sport, where he leads the agenda for growing a thriving sporting system. This includes driving and supporting Governance, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), wider Organisational Health in National Governing Bodies and system development.

Kristen is currently Head of Volunteering at Sport England and has held that role for five years. She has led their national Volunteering Fund and worked on developing insight and projects to explore new approaches to increasing diversity and innovation in sport and physical activity volunteering.

Chris leads the implementation of The Football Association’s Code of Governance for County FAs. He has extensive senior leadership experience as a former Chief Executive, Director and Company Secretary. With this combination of experience, he was the natural lead for regional governance reform at The FA.

Russell Seymour is a pioneer in Sustainability and Sport in the UK. With an academic background (with degrees in Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity Management) Russell started work in the sports sector through a convoluted career path. He soon realised that the sport sector had significant environmental impacts, was being impacted by environmental changes and, importantly, had an opportunity to raise awareness as a trusted, non-partisan ambassador by using the powerful influence of sport on participants and fans.

Savita is a Case Manager at Sport Resolutions. She has extensive experience working in safeguarding, child protection and case management in sport having previously worked in two English national governing bodies (specifically tennis and most recently football) and a Premier League football club.

Lynsey is Strategic Lead, Governance at Sport England.

Soon after joining the organisation seven years ago Lynsey was tasked with developing and implementing the Code for Sports Governance with governance colleagues at UK Sport. The Code set world leading standards for governance in sport and has effected significant change within the sport and physical activity sector in England and the UK.

Georgina was appointed as CEO of British Fencing in 2014 following a successful fencing career during which she won several Commonwealth medals for Scotland including individual gold in 2014 and competed for Great Britain at numerous World and European Championships.

Jeanette Bain-Burnett, Executive Director of Policy & Integrity, Sport England