Good Governance in Sport: An International Perspective on Why, What and How International Fair Play Congress Baku, Azerbaijan, 7-11 October 2015.

Good Governance in Sport: An International Perspective on

Why, What and How

International Fair Play Congress

Baku, Azerbaijan, 7-11 October 2015

A brief introduction to Michael Pedersen

Internationally recognized expert and leader in good governance, transparency, ethics and integrity

Former Head of World Economic

Forum Partnering

Against Corruption Initiative

Founder of M INC. >

change the game, Change Agent, Integrity

Coach and Street

Volunteer

MSc degrees in international

relations, corporate

responsibility and global leadership

An athlete with passion

for sport

Michael Pedersen’s contributions to the sport community

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

•Speaking about sport governance at confe-rences •Facilitating sport governance training and workshops•Writing about evolving good governance practices in sport

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

PROJECTS

•Facilitating sport, country and issue specific projects in support of further raising sport governance standards to a best in practice, leadership level

VOLUNTEER WORK

•Supporting high-potential projects that evolve around sport, children, values and positive societal change

WHY? – Sport organizations’ business case for good governance

2. It builds GROWTH

by facilitatingincreased

participation and increased revenues

1. It builds TRUST by enabling strong relationships with

key stakeholders of sport

3. It builds PERFORMANCE by

attracting and retaining people fit

for the task, motivated and supported to

perform to their full ability

Appreciation: Sport leaders and athletes reflect society with all its beauty and flaws

Please help me illustrate, how sport leaders and athletes reflect

society

HOW? - Sport governance as comprised of four horizontal and three vertical dimensions

PREVENTIVE GOVERNANCE

Standards for adequate rules and procedures of

a sport organization

DETECTIVE GOVERNANCE

Standards for monitoring the adherence to the

rules and procedures of a sport organization

SANCTION GOVERNANCEStandards for deciding on and executing the sanc-tioning of proven

breaches of a sport organization’s rules and

procedures

‘SPORT IN SOCIETY’

GOVERNANCEIntegrity standards for pro-jects or separate entities

that a sport organi-zation is in charge

of

EVENT GOVERNANCE

Standards for sport event integrity in the context of

the events that a sport organization is in

charge of

ATHLETIC GOVERNANCE Standards for a leveled

playing field for athletes in the sport(s) that a sport organization

oversees

INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

Standards for the political and operational

integrity of a sport organization

Netball New Zealand: A Winning Model for Professionalizing the Boardroom?

Badminton World Federation: A Winning Model for Democratizing Sport?

United States Anti-Doping Agency: A Winning Model for Independence and Prevention in the Fight Against Doping in Sport?

[email protected]