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Catherine Ordway

Catherine Ordway, PhD

Catherine Ordway, has a Sport Management PhD from the University of Canberra in “Protecting Sports Integrity: Sport corruption risk management strategies.” Catherine is a sports lawyer with degrees from the University of Adelaide, a Graduate Diploma in Investigations Management from Charles Sturt University, and continues to consult to a range of sport organisations. Catherine holds several academic adjunct roles with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), School of Business, UNSW Canberra; Auckland University of Technology (AUT), AUT Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, New Zealand; and Charles University, Sports Ethics Research Centre, Czech Republic. Most recently, Catherine was Associate Professor (Sports Management) and Sport Integrity Research Lead at the University of Canberra, and a Senior Fellow with The University of Melbourne Law School.

Catherine has contributed to a range of sport integrity research publications and projects on topics ranging from anti-doping. match-fixing, corruption, gender equality and transgender inclusion policies. Her edited text, Restoring Trust in Sport: Corruption Cases and Solutions (2021) was published by Routledge. Catherine also co-authored the textbook, “Sports Management: Principles and Applications” (6th ed., 2022) with Russell Hoye, Katie Misener, and Michael L. Naraine. Routledge has commissioned the 7th edition of this textbook.

Catherine’s public engaged work is impressive where she instigated the evacuation of the Afghan Women’s Cricket team, administrators and their families to Australia following the occupation by the Taliban in August 2021. In 2025, Catherine was awarded the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) (ACT) inaugural Civil Justice Award, and, together with Melanie Jones OAM and Emma Staples, was awarded the MCC Spirit of Cricket Award, by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Lords.

Catherine is active in various international roles such as the World Anti-Doping Agency Social Science Research Expert Advisory Group, the International Cricket Council Independent Review Board, the International Canoeing Federation Arbitration Panel, the World Curling Federation Anti-Doping Hearing Panel, and the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities Council on Anti-Illegal Betting and Related Crime. In Australia, Catherine is a member of the National Sports Tribunal and the Victorian Government Racing Integrity Board.

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Annick Willem

Associate Professor

Dr. Willem holds a PhD in Applied Economic Sciences (Ghent University) and Master degrees in Applied Economic Sciences and in Law and Economics. She is Associate Professor in Sport Management at the Department of Movement & Sports Sciences at Ghent University and holder of the Olympic Chair Henri de Baillet Latour-Jacques Rogge. She is head of the Sport Management research group and the PrOFS (Prevention of fraud in sports) project. Her research is on management and policy in the sports sector, with a particular focus on social issues, such as Sport-for-All and ethics management. Annick teaches several sport management courses and is academic coordinator of the Belgian Olympic Academy.

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Bram Constandt

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Constandt's main research interests include ethics management, corruption, and gambling in sport as a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, Belgium. His research has been presented with the 2020 ESMQ New Researcher Award (NRA) of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) and has been published in such outlets as the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Leisure Sciences. He is co-managing the PrOFS research project on fraud prevention in sport while being a partner in two ongoing Erasmus+ projects on match-fixing (i.e., EPOSM and Integriball). He is also a board member of the Center for Ethics in Sport (ICES) and a member of the IRNOVIS network on violence and integrity in sport.

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Kathy Babiak

Associate Professor, Sport Management

Dr. Babiak is an associate professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan and director of the Michigan Center for Sport & Social Responsibility at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. Dr. Babiak’s main line of research focuses on sport and social impact. In this area, she explores how organizations devise social responsibility strategies to maximize the value and benefit to both organizations and to society. She has also explored strategic factors motivating sports organizations to enter into partnership relationships with other organizations in the non-profit, government, and private sectors.

Dr. Babiak has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE). She is an associate editor for the European Sport Management Quarterly and on the editorial board of numerous sport management journals.

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Clint Warren

Lecturer, Sport Management

Dr. Warren's primary research agenda broadly examines sport business strategy with an emphasis on sport marketing, sales, and fundraising. Whenever possible, he examines these, and other, topics in the context of soccer in North America. Most recently, Dr. Warren has authored two book chapters on the business and culture of soccer in the United States. His current projects seek to use service-dominant logic and service innovation theory to examine how sport organizations may best co-create value with spectators in a manner that can enhance community impacts. He is also currently conducting an international comparison of the business strategies of professional and amateur soccer leagues from the perspective of growing the game as a community asset.

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