Carol D. Rodgers is Dean of the College of Kinesiology at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to her position at the University of Saskatchewan she was on faculty (1993-2005), and Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Research (2000-2001; 2003-2005) in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto. During that time she also served as the inaugural director of the Center for Girls’ and Women’s Health and Physical Activity (1999-2001). Dr. Rodgers has also served as the Vice-President (basic research) of the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP) (1998-2000) and as the CSEP liaison to the Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine – Women’s Issues in Sport Medicine Subcommittee (2000 – 2001). She is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and served for three years as a member of its Strategic Health Initiative: Women's Health and Physical Activity Standing Committee.

Dr. Rodgers is an exercise physiologist whose research interests focus primarily on metabolic fuel interplay during exercise and disease states, with a particular interest in active girls and women. She has served as the exercise physiologist to Canada’s Senior Women’s Field Hockey Team and to the U of T Varsity Blues women’s ice hockey and field hockey teams.

Vice-President:
Carole A. Oglesby - USA

Carole Oglesby is a professor emeritus in sport psychology (2001) from Temple University and was Chairperson in Kinesiology at California State University Northridge 2003-2009. As a sport psychology consultant she has worked with Olympians and Pan American Games champions in rowing, cycling, paralympic cycling, and the USA Deaf Women’s VB team. To further her capacities, she completed earned PhDs in sport psychology (1969 Purdue) and Counseling Psychology (Temple 1999).

Carole was on the executive committee of the USA World University Games group 1972-1992, US Olympic Committee House of Delegates 1992-1996 and on the USOC Sport Psychology Registry for 12 years. She has presented papers and conducted training and leadership workshops in 31 countries; published pioneering works Women and Sport: Myth to Reality (1978), Black Women and Sport (co-edit, 1978); Encyclopedia of Women and Sport in America, 1998).

She has been President and Past-president of WomenSport International, past member of the International Working Group for Women and Sport, principal contributor to UN-DAW monograph Women2000 and Beyond: Women, gender equality and sport, 2009. She is a recipient of the Women’s Sports Foundation Billie Jean King award, AAHPERD R. Tait McKinzie award and C.D. Henry award for contributions to ethnic diversity, and the ICSSPE Phillip Noel Baker Research award. She received the Lifetime Award from Div. 47 of the APA for contributions in the public interest.

Past-President:
Kari Fasting - Norway

Dr. Kari Fasting is professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies of the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, in Oslo, Norway. She became the first elected chair of this institution and served as rector from 1989 to 1994. She was also the first president of the Norwegian Society for Sport Research. She is past president of the International Sociology of Sport Association, and one of the founding members of WomenSport International. Professor Fasting’s main research area is women and sport, and she has written more than 300 publications. During the last years her research has focused on sexual harassment and abuse in sport. She often is an invited speaker at international conferences.

In the 70’s she participated as an athlete on the national team in track and field. She has also been member of the executive board of the Norwegian Amateur Track and Field Association (1976-1980). From 1985 to 1991 she was a member of the Women’s Committee in the Norwegian Confederation of Sports representing this organization during the first 6 years of the European Women and Sports Group (1990-1996).

Secretary
Stilani Chroni – Greece

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.

Treasurer
Chris Shelton – USA

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.