Daryl Adair, PhD, is associate professor in Sport Management in the UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. A key focus of his research is the ways in which sport and culture interweave with indigeneity, race, ethnicity and gender. He also evaluates policies related to both performance enhancing drugs and illicit drugs in sport and physical activity settings.

Jorge Knijnik, PhD, has been with the School of Education and the Institute for Culture and Society at University of Western Sydney, Australia, since 2009. He was a recipient of the Building the Gender Equality Prize (2009) awarded by the Brazilian Research Council and UNIFEM. His research interests range from sport in society, culture, and history to gender and human rights in education, physical education pedagogies, drama studies, and fandom culture. His current research examines the socialisation process within football fans in Greater Western Sydney and how football...

Michelle is a PhD candidate at Nipissing University with a focus on the intersection of sport, culture and education. She teaches international health in the School of Human Kinetics and directs institutional planning at Laurentian University. She co-authored Public Private Partnerships in Physical Activity and Sport (Human Kinetics) with Norm O’Reilly. Michelle is an executive member of the Sudbury Rocks Race, Run, or Walk for Diabetes, a founding board executive for the Young Professionals Association, and the former athlete representative for Ringette Ontario. She is an avid...

Benoît is an associate professor of sport management, specializing in sport marketing at the University of Ottawa. His research on sponsorship, ambush marketing, and Olympic marketing has been published in a variety of international journals and co-authored in Olympic Marketing (Routledge). Benoît has extensive professional experience having held leadership positions with Diving Canada, Synchro Canada, Aquatic Federation of Canada, and as Assistant Chef de Mission for Canada’s team at the 2003 Pan American Games. He is a supervising professor at the International Olympic Academy (...

Rick is the award-winning David B. Falk Distinguished Professor of Sport Management in Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. He served as the chief marketing officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, where he directed the USOC’s partnerships for IOC and USOC sponsorship activation at the world’s largest sporting event. Rick was the Commissioner of the Sydney-based National Basketball League (a two-continent league with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore). During the last 20 years, his scholarly research and...