Episode 11: Discrimination & Diversity in Sport

Nick De Marco KC is joined by leading voices on tackling discrimination, achieving gender equality, and building an atmosphere of inclusivity in sport from grassroots to elite levels.

Our expert panel comprises:

• Jane Purdon is the director of Women in Football, Chair of the Professional Game Academy Audit Company and a newly-appointed member of Premiership Rugby’s Sporting Commission. She has recently authored The Homecoming: The Lionesses and Beyond.
• Sanjay Bhandari is Chair of Kick it Out, football’s equality and inclusion charity. In this role, he is a frequent public commentator and recognised thought leader on issues related to discrimination and equality.
• Tom Mountford is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, where he has a broad practice across commercial litigation and arbitration, insolvency, company and partnership, employment and sports law as well as in the fields of public law, civil liberties and human rights. He is ranked as a leading junior barrister in the field of sports law and previously served as the Legal Secretary to the Ethics Board of the International Association of Athletics Federations.