Mirna Rajle Brođanac (Osijek, November 14, 1974) is one of Croatia’s most successful rowers of all time. During her illustrious sports career, she won 48 Croatian national championship titles in various rowing disciplines. On the international stage, she regularly won medals and achieved notable results, including 6 medals at the World Championships and 9 medals in … Read more

Başak Nagihan Sönmez holds a PhD in Sports Management from Istanbul University–Cerrahpaşa, an MBA in Sports Management from Bahçeşehir University, and a Master’s degree in Football Business from Johan Cruyff Institute. She is a member of the Fair Play Commission of the Turkish National Olympic Committee (TMOK), where she is actively involved in various projects … Read more

Since 2021, Kasparas Sileikis has been working at the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee, currently serving as Director of Olympic Education and leading national Olympic education programmes. With academic backgrounds in BSc Sports Management gained at Southwestern Christian University in Oklahoma City and MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Kasparas Sileikis … Read more

Professor Ivan COSTE-MANIÈRE Programme Scientific Director, SKEMA Business School Honourly and distinguished Professor for some 65 universities in 25 countries in chemistry and luxury brand management, author of 10 books published by Elsevier, MacMillan and Springer, with more than 400 publications, and active in the sports domain: Lecturer, Institut de Développement du Sport par la … Read more

Laura Capranica is full Professor of Sport Sciences at the University of Rome Foro Italico, acting as Rector’s Delegate for Dual Career, a board member of Unisport Italia – the Italian Association of Universities interested in Sport, President of the “European Student Athlete” (EAS) Network, and a member of the Consultative Committee Bureau of EPAS … Read more

Thierry Zintz is an emeritus professor of Sports Organisations Management at the Faculty of Sports Sciences of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He was the Dean of the Faculty between 2010 and 2016. He was also Vice-President of the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee from 2001 until 2017 and is Past-President of the European … Read more

1989 – Employed at the University of Zagreb as a lecturer in Physical Education2000 – PhD, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Kinesiology2023 – Full Professor of Physical Education at the University of Zagreb2004 – 2005 – Deputy Minister for Sport, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia2007– 2024 – National dual … Read more