Programme Committee
The board of Play the Game and the Danish Institute for Sports Studies appoints a Programme Committee for each conference.
The committee has two main tasks:
- to advise on themes and speakers for the conference
- to evaluate the conference
The members of the 2017 Programme Committee are (in alphabetical order, last name)
- Peter Barendse, Researcher, Knowledge Centre for Sport Netherlands, the Netherlands
- Koen Breedveld, Director, Mulier Institute, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Frank van Eekeren, PhD, Senior Consultant, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Judit Farkas, Quality Assurance and Accreditation Officer, University of Physical Education, Hungary
- Christopher Gaffney, Independent Scholar, USA
- Arnout Geeraert, PhD, KU Leuven/Play the Game, Belgium
- Aleksandra Goldys, Principal researcher, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Grit Hartmann, Freelance journalist, Germany
- Arno Hermans, Founder, Sport eXperience, the Netherlands
- Mogens Kirkeby, President, International Sport and Culture Association, Denmark
- Emiel Krijt, Senior Account manager Public Affairs, NOC/NSF, the Netherlands
- Jesper Frigast Larsen, Legal Manager, Anti-Doping Danmark, Denmark
- Mike McNamee, Professor of Applied Ethics, Swansea University, UK
- Osasu Obayiuwana, freelance journalist, BBC World Football, Nigeria
- Marjan Olfers, professor of sports law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Roger Pielke Jr., Professor, CU Boulder, USA
- Andreas Selliaas, Journalist, Academic Researcher, Norway
- Harry Arne Solberg, Professor, NTNU Business School, Norway
- Arnoud Strijbis, CEO, Dutch Archery Association, the Netherlands
- Tine Rindum Teilmann, Board Member, National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF), and member of the IOC Women’s Commission, Denmark
- Paulina Tomczyk, Policy Officer, EU Athletes, Poland
- Steven Vos, Professor at Fontys University of Applied Sciences & Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Jens Weinreich, Journalist and blogger, www.jensweinreich.de, Germany
- René Wijlens, Manager, Sports and Technology Foundation, the Netherlands