Speakers

Patrick Gasser

UEFA Senior Manager en el área de Football and Social Responsibility. UEFA's Executive Committee has approved a new UEFA Social Responsibility partnership portfolio for the 2007-2011 period. The UEFA social responsibility programme includes Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), the Cross Cultures Projects Association (CCPA), Terre des hommes (Tdh), which works in eastern Europe against child exploitation and trafficking; Education 4 Peace, a programme targeting schoolchildren and fan clubs on the theme "Master Your Emotions", contributing to less violence in society; and the World Heart Federation (WHF) which promotes healthy, active lifestyles to prevent obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Fritz Polite

Assistant Professor of Sports Management at the University of Tennessee. Consultant for the NFL.Director of the Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Diversity in Sport. He was General Manager of Harlem Globetrotters and Sport Program Manager at Walt Disney World Sports. He was National TEAM Coach-Switzerland (Football), player and administrator at the professional level.

Hans Westerbeek

Chair of Sport Management at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) and also serve as a Chair of Sport Management at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). He has worked for more than 50 different (sport and non-sport) organisations. Co-authored more than 15 books in sport management, marketing and business including titles such as Sport Business in the Global Marketplace, Business Leadership and the Lessons from Sport.

Iain Lindsey

Lecturer in Sport Policy & Development at the University of Southampton. Iain’s research interests centre on issues in the local delivery of sport in a variety of contexts. His doctoral study concerned local partnership working in the delivery of youth and community sport programmes. He has also undertaken research on sport for development programmes in Zambia including examining partnerships with organisations addressing the HIV / AIDS pandemic. His work on sustainability in sports development encompasses a policy working paper for the Big Lottery Fund which led to subsequent publication in the Leisure Studies journal.

Plácido Rodríguez Guerrero

Professor of Economics of Escuela Universitaria at Oviedo University. He has published articles in the Journal of Sports Economics, European Sport Management Quarterly, International Journal of Sport Finance and International Journal of Sports Management and Marketing. Co-editor with Stefan Késenne and Jaume García of several sport economics books. Director Fundación Observatorio Económico del Deporte. He was President of Real Sporting de Gijón.

Dwight H. Zakus

Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business School (Australia). Has research expertise on: the social sciences of sport, physical education, leisure, and culture, political economy, ethics, and the Olympic movement and the International Olympic Committee. He has over 50 publications in journals like Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, European Journal of Sport Management, Quest, and Sport, Education and Society. He has written many book chapters on these topics and co-authored the book Sport Ethics: Concepts and Cases in Sport and Recreation.

George Gilligan

Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University. He has taught at the University of Cambridge, Exeter University and Middlesex University in the UK, and La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University in Australia. His research interests centre on: governance, and regulatory theory and practice, especially in relation to the financial services sector; white-collar crime; organised crime; and corruption. He has published more than one hundred articles, books and book chapters analysing these areas, including Regulating the Financial Services Sector (1999) and conducted numerous field research projects examining the praxis of regulation

Francesco De Zwart

Lecturer of the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Faculty of Business and Economics (University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia). His areas of teaching are business law and Australian company law. He worked as a solicitor for approximately four years at Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks mainly in the commercial, banking and finance areas. He has been published in journals like Monash University Law Review.

Sean Hamil

Lecturer in Management at School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck, University of London. Co-founder and member of Birkbeck's Birkbeck Sports Business Centre. He has published books like The Changing Face of the Football Business: Supporters Direct (2001) or Football in the Digital Age: Whose Game is it Anyway? (2000) with his colleagues Michie, Oughton y Warby.

Julia Hillebrandt

Assistant (100%) at the chair of Prof. Dr. Egon Franck, Institute of Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her field of study is Management and Economics. In 2007 completed her masters degree. Since 2008 working on her Dissertation Thesis Corporate Social Responsibility in Professional Team Sports. She is founder and managing director of the company Hillebrandt Immobilien e.K., Iserlohn, Germany.

Egon Franck

Chair of Business Management and Business Policy at the University of Zurich Vice-President of the University of Zurich. President of the Zurich Academic Sports Association. Egon Franck has published several books and a number of essays in specialized journals like Kyklos, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Sports Economics or Scottish Journal of Political Economy.

Helmut Dietl

Professor of Management at University of Zurich (Switzerland). He has published chapters of books and articles in specialized journals like International Journal of Service Technology and Management; Innovation: Management Policy & Practice; the Hitotsubashi Journal of Management & Commerce; Economic Systems; Journal of Sports Economics and European Sport Management Quarterly

Kathy Babiak

Assistant Professor in the Sport Management Department at University of Michigan (USA), School of Kinesiology. Ph.D. Her research interests centre in corporate social responsibility in sport. She has published in several scientific journals like Journal of Sport Management, European Sport Management Quarterly, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Journal of Business Ethics.

Jean-Loup Chappelet

Professor of public management at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP – Institut de Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique) associated to the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the IDHEAP Director since 2003. He is currently the director of the MEMOS (Master Exécutif en Management des Organisations Sportives - Executive Masters in Sports Organisation Management) programme supported by the European Olympic Committees, Olympic Solidarity and the European Union. he has edited a book entitled: “Sport Management: An International Approach”, published by the IOC in 1996. In 2002, he received the medal of youth and sport from the French Ministry of Sport.