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Stilani “Ani” teaches various applied sport psychology and female athlete classes at the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science of the University of Thessaly in Central Greece. Her area of expertise is teaching mental skills to sport students, athletes, and coaches, but mainly helping them recognize and appreciate their full potential. She is also involved with competitive sports as a technical delegate for the International Ski Federation and the Hellenic Ski Federation. During her graduate studies at Springfield College (MA) and the University of Virginia (VA) she became interested in girls’ and women’s sport issues. Upon returning to her native country, she herself faced some issues being a woman teaching as adjunct faculty at male dominated Sport & PE departments. Currently she is working with Kari Fasting in an international project that explores gender relations in the world of sports based on the experiences of female athletes and sport students. Further, she is the lead-coordinator of an EC funded undergraduate program on gender and equity issues in which participate five departments from the University of Thessaly.

Laura Gajardo

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Takako Iida is Professor in the Graduate School of Human Sciences and the Faculty of Human and Cultural Studies at Tezukayama Gakuin University, Japan. She received her B.Ed. at Kyoto University of Education in 1970 and her Ph.D. at Kyoto Tachibana University in 2006. She serves as the President of the Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies since 2002. Further, she is an Executive Board member of the Osaka Society of Physical Education. From 2001-2004 she was on the Executive Board of the Meeting of Gymnastics Leader for All. Her research focuses on gender issues in sport. She has published a range of articles in the Journal of Sport and Gender Studies.

Janet Kabeberi-Macharia

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Gertrud Pfister

Gertrud Pfister has gained a PhD in history and sociology. From 1980 to 2000, she worked as a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. Currently she is professor at the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
From 1983 to 2001 Gertrud Pfister was President of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, from 2004 to 2008 President of the International Sport Sociology Association. Gertrud Pfister served as a guest professor at several foreign universities, and was invited as a keynote speaker to more than 30 international congresses. She is member of the editorial boards of 15 scientific journals and she served in several committees which evaluated sport faculties and departments.
Pfister won several awards for her scholarly work, among others, the Award of the International Society for Sport History and the Howell, the Howell Distinguished Lecturer Award of the North American Society for Sport History and the inaugural European Women and Sport Award (for research and leadership in the area of women’s sport). In 2007, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the Semmelweis University, Budapest.
The main topics of her research are sport history and sport sociology with a special focus on social class, gender and ethnicity, socialization, and international comparisons.
Pfister conducted several large national and international research projects, and is currently carrying out major research on doping and gender as well as on health and physical activities. The results of her projects are published in more than 200 articles in peer reviewed journals and several books.

Christine M. Shelton is a professor in the Exercise and Sport Studies Department and co-chair of the Project on Women and Social Change at Smith College. She is a past president and past executive director of the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) and recipient of the NAGWS Honor Award in 1993. In 1997, she was elected Vice President of the International Association for Girls and Women in Physical Education and Sport (IAPESGW) and served in that position until 2005. Chris is the representative for the Americas to the International Working group on women and Sport and to the Congreso Panamericano de Educación Física,two international sport organizations that help to network and develop leadership opportunities for women and sport. Christine’s recent research was done as part of a team with Loughborough, University, UK and the International Olympic Committee, evaluating contributions of newly appointed women to National Olympic Committees. Her research and theoretical work is on leadership issues that cross race, gender, and class and her scholarship is directed toward bridge-building contact between the women’s sport community and the academic community.

Anita White is an independent consultant working in the field of national and international sport policy and sports development, and a Visiting Professor at Loughborough University. She has wide ranging experience of sport: as an international player and coach, of working in the public sector in higher education and sports administration, and as an advocate for equality in sport in national and international circles.
Anita qualified as a PE teacher in the late 60s and taught in schools and teacher education institutions for 12 years. She then went on to gain Masters and Doctoral degrees before setting up the Sports Studies degree course at West Sussex Institute of Higher Education (now the University of Chichester) in 1982. In 1990, she joined the Sports Council as Head of Development and went on to become one of three Senior Directors of Sport England in 1995. During her time at Sport England she was responsible for the development and delivery of national policies and programmes for the development of sport at all levels.
A former international sportswoman, Anita captained the England Hockey team to victory in the World Cup in 1975 and has also coached at all levels. From 2002 - 2004 she was the President of the Great Britain Olympic Hockey Board. Anita is also an acknowledged leader in the international Women and Sport movement. A founder member and former Chair of the Women’s Sports Foundation (UK) she was responsible in her Sports Council role for the staging of the first international conference on Women and Sport in 1994. This resulted in the Brighton Declaration on Women and Sport that now has world-wide currency. She co-chaired the International Working Group on Women and Sport from 1994 to 1998 and continues to advise many countries and organisations on women’s sports development. She was awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to women and sport.
Consultancy work in the last seven years has included evaluation of the gender equality policy for the IOC, evaluation of the Dreams and Teams programme for the British Council, evaluation of pilot international development programmes for UK Sport, and compilation of a world wide progress report on Women and Sport for Sport Canada. Voluntary work has included serving on the Boards of the University of Chichester, the Golf Foundation, International Development through Sport (UK) and the International Working Group on Women and Sport.