Sport Resolutions Annual Conference 2023 in association with Winston & Strawn LLP

Jason MohammadPresenter

BBC TV and radio presenter Jason Mohammad is one of the most sought-after hosts in the events world. Best known for his role on BBC One’s fast live football scores FINAL SCORE and flagship football show MATCH OF THE DAY and MOTD2 Jason’s professionalism, warmth and humour makes him a massive hit with live audiences. Jason is also a very proud member of the BBC Radio 2 family lining up alongside Zoe Ball, Claudia Winkleman and Dermot O’Leary as one of their famous voices.

Jason presents GOOD MORNING SUNDAY on Radio 2 between 6am and 9am every weekend. The Cardiff-born presenter has also fronted some of the BBC’s biggest television output including the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, FA Cup finals, World Cup finals and the Six Nations.

He’s made films for The One Show and co-presented BBC One’s Crimewatch with Sophie Raworth and Kirsty Young.

Jason works between London, Salford and Cardiff and is a fluent Welsh speaker - appearing regularly on Welsh language television station S4C. He even has time for his own show on BBC Radio Wales - where he fronts a phone in show in the English language.

Jason has travelled the world with the BBC fronting TV coverage from Brazil to the United States to Australia and is equally at home interviewing Hollywood A-listers and music stars as he is chatting to the world’s biggest football names.

Jason co-owns a TV production company and has recently created his own media academy. He’s also a keen filmmaker having made TV documentaries on his faith in Mecca, his upbringing in Wales and historic architecture in Egypt.

Given his unique ability to chair, present and interact, some of the world’s biggest brands have booked Jason for awards and events including HP, UEFA, Mercedes and Maserati.

Baz MoffatSpeaker - Do women belong in sport?

After achieving a first-class honours degree and a Masters, Baz Moffat jumped into the boat and rowed straight onto the Great Britain national team. Over an impressive career she won several medals, including a silver at the 2007 World Championships.

After Baz hung up her oars she launched a successful international coaching business. Specialising in pelvic health, Baz has helped hundreds of women – from pro athletes to new mums – tap greater health and happiness by understanding mind, body and the interplay of the two.

Baz looks back fondly at her sporting career but recognises a lack of female-specific coaching limited her potential. Now a prominent voice in the women’s health movement, Baz wants to highlight and address the institutional gaps that stop women reaching their potential in sport and beyond. 

Baz is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Well HQ.

Dr Emma RossSpeaker - Do women belong in sport?

Scientist, researcher and practitioner Dr Emma Ross is the former Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport. She led the UK High Performance System’s first ever strategic approach to Female Athlete Health with the SmartHER programme.

Emma is behind several breakthrough initiatives that ensure active women - and their support teams - understand and support the female part of the female athlete. In 2021 she received the Sunday Times Sports Women of the Year Changemaker Award in recognition of her work to improve sport for women.

Chris LaveySpeaker - Trans athlete eligibility in sports: a snapshot in time

Chris is a solicitor advocate in Bird & Bird’s Sports Group in London. He advises clients - primarily international federations, governing bodies and event organisers - on a variety of sports regulatory matters. He has specialised expertise in anti-doping and in athlete eligibility for competition, including on the grounds of nationality, sex and gender, and the classification of para-athletes. In recent years, he has acted for clients in high-profile disputes before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and other sports disciplinary tribunals.

Chris has advised a number of national and international federations in relation to transgender athlete policies and regulations, and works closely with those federations to draft their rules. With Jonathan Taylor KC, he successfully defended World Athletics’ eligibility regulations for the female category before the CAS in the challenge brought by Caster Semenya.

Chris also advises clients in relation to commercial disputes and other regulatory and disciplinary issues, including regulatory investigations into possible rule breaches and unethical or improper conduct.

Paul StewartSpeaker - Latest developments and the future of safeguarding

Paul Stewart is a former premiership footballer who played for Man City, Spurs and Liverpool, he was also capped 3 times for England.

In 2016 Paul waived his anonymity and spoke about the physical and sexual abuse he endured at the hands of a youth coach as a 10 year old growing up in Manchester. Paul has joined the EFL’s Life skills team to raise awareness about the importance of Safeguarding. He has worked with the FA SFA and Premiership clubs delivering workshops to Academy Coaches/Parents/Players and his delivery whilst hard hitting also gives an insight into Safeguarding from a survivors perspective.

Savita Sohal Speaker - Latest developments and the future of safeguarding

Savita has extensive experience working in safeguarding, child protection and case management in sport having previously worked in two English national governing bodies (specifically tennis and most recently football) and a Premier League football club.  

Savita is a keen advocate for wellbeing and has previously acted as a Disciplinary Panel Member for a national governing body and Safeguarding Officer for London Youth Games. Savita most recently held the role of Lay Board Member for her Local Authority Safeguarding Adults Board and currently a Case Manager at Sport Resolutions specifically dealing with Safeguarding matters. 

Michelle North Speaker - Latest developments and the future of safeguarding

Michelle joined the Child Protection in Sport Unit in April 2013 and was appointed as Head of CPSU in April 2020. Prior to this she worked for the NSPCC Safeguarding in Education Service.

Before joining the NSPCC, Michelle was an Education Welfare Officer with over 10 years' frontline experience and later a Senior Manager with responsibility for prosecutions and case management for a local authority.

She is responsible for managing CPSU staff across England, Northern Ireland and Wales. She also manages relationships with the respective Sports Councils and with our key partners in sport and drives the strategy for sport for the NSPCC.

John Donnelly CBE Speaker - Latest developments and the future of safeguarding

John is the Head of Integrity at UK Sport, with a wide remit for wellbeing and conduct in the High-Performance System.  Also worked with: the FA on grievance and conduct issues for players coaches and officials, and its ‘Inclusion Policy’; Ulster Rugby on organisational values and culture; the ECB on increasing diversity of match officials; and Sport Ireland on its Culture Enhancement Programme.

Previously 36 years of fun, travel and danger as a soldier.  Served all over the World including: the Middle East and Iraq, the Balkans, Germany, Cyprus, Afghanistan, the Falklands, Africa, Hong Kong, Canada, the USA and Argentina, retiring as a brigadier. 

Held a range of operational command and leadership appointments, picked up a few medals along the way.   Finished as the Director of Personal Services for the Army, responsible for: discipline and conduct, grievance, inquiries, welfare, health, pay and pensions and compulsory drugs testing.

A keen sportsman, but ability fails to match enthusiasm; achievements include setting up the Army Elite Sports Programme and running the adaptive sports programme for injured soldiers.  Serious two-wheeled ‘Lycra-lout’ and supporter of Irish Rugby.

Married, with two ‘young adults’, three bikes, a rebellious Border Terrier, and never enough time.

Jayne MolyneuxSpeaker - Latest developments and the future of safeguarding

As Director of Welfare and Integrity Jayne has a wide remit of work which includes responsibility for leading Sport England’s work on safeguarding and welfare. Working with organisations including Sport Resolutions, Jayne played a key role in the development of the Case Management Programme which now supports 44 National Governing Bodies of Sport to access independent advice and guidance regarding safeguarding matters. Jayne also works with key partners, to support sporting organisations to improve their safeguarding provision and is working with British Gymnastics on their Reform 25 Action Plan following the Whyte Review.

Prior to working for Sport England, Jayne worked for the Youth Sport Trust, a national children’s charity as National Development Manager as well as several local authorities in the Northwest of England. Until recently she was Chair of Governors at her local secondary school also having responsibility for safeguarding.

In a former life, Jayne played rugby union for England and was capped 28 times; she was part of the squad who won the World Cup in 1994 and finished 3rd in 1998. Following retirement from playing she went on to coach England Students.

Dr. Russell Seymour Speaker - Impact of sports on the environment

Russell Seymour is a pioneer in Sustainability and Sport in the UK. With an academic background (with degrees in Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity Management) Russell started work in the sports sector through a convoluted career path. He soon realised that the sport sector had significant environmental impacts, was being impacted by environmental changes and, importantly, had an opportunity to raise awareness as a trusted, non-partisan ambassador by using the powerful influence of sport on participants and fans. Working at Lord’s Cricket Ground as the first Sustainability Manager at a major UK sports venue, Russell integrated sustainability principles into business functions across the venue.

With this in mind, he set up BASIS (the British Association for Sustainable Sport), the UK’s trade body for sustainability and sport, in 2010, with the intention of bringing together like-minded individuals at all levels of sport, to share ideas, experiences and strategies around sustainability. Russell became Chief Executive of BASIS in 2018 and is now Chair of the Board.

Russell is a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Sport Business at Loughborough University and a visiting lecturer in Event Management at the University of Greenwich. He is Principle Consultant at Seymour Associates. He sits on the British Standards committee SCP/1 on Sustainable Performance, Consumption and Production; and is part of the International Advisory Board for the Sport Ecology Group.

Sara KassamSpeaker - Impact of sports on the environment

Sara Kassam is the Sustainability Advisor at UK Sport.

Sara works across organisations to embed sustainability expertise and catalyse systemic change in operations and behaviours. She has worked in sustainability at different levels from strategic planning to practical implementation, in the higher education, local government, museum and charity sectors. She loves connecting people and ideas to make positive change happen. She is also the Climate Change Trustee for the Museums Association and a Scout leader.