FIFA announcement: High-profile speakers confirmed for Women’s Football and Leadership Conference
An impressive line-up of guest speakers and panellists has been confirmed for the FIFA Women’s Football and Leadership Conference to be held at the Home of FIFA in Zurich on Friday 6 March.
For this event, FIFA has invited a diverse group of speakers
from sport and wider society including: Ruth Maphorisa, Co-Chairperson
of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG); Amber
Steele, Director of Football and NBA Management at Coca-Cola; Ruth
Holdaway, Chief Executive of Women In Sport; Dr Petra Jantzer, Partner
at McKinsey & Company; Carolina Müller-Möhl, Müller-Möhl Group &
Foundation President; and Arnaud Simon, Eurosport Group TV Content
Director.
Speakers from within football
include: Hope Powell, former England international and head coach; Isha
Johansen, President of the Sierra Leone FA; Piara Powar, Executive
Director of Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE); Kelly Simmons, The
FA’s Director of the National Game and Women’s Football; and Sandra
Gage, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of the National
Organising Committee for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015.
Read more at: http://www.fifa.com
