Dr. Anna Bordiugova is a former professional track athlete, acted as athletes’ agent to Ukrainian track athletes. Fluent in four languages, she studied law in Kyiv and was called to the bar in 2009. She has 20+ years of practice as a sports lawyer on national and international levels, involving all kinds of dispute resolution, governance and regulatory matters, anti-doping, match-fixing etc. She has extensive experience in representing athletes, clubs and federations, she was involved in a number of working groups drafting laws and governmental acts pertinent to sport issues. She has significant experience as a panel member in a number of national and international sports bodies.

Anna is a lecturer in the Highest school of advocacy of Ukraine, and has published or co-authored several articles and books on sports law issues in leading law and sport journals in Ukraine.

She is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (General and Football Lists) and a member of the World Athletics’ Disciplinary Tribunal.

Ian Mill KC is a leading silk, who has appeared frequently in substantial, high profile contractual and intellectual property disputes in the Chancery Division, the Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal, offshore in the BVI, Bermuda and Cayman and in international and domestic arbitrations.

Ian also sits regularly as an arbitrator in relation to high value commercial and company disputes, including disputes in the areas of media and entertainment and sport, and in relation to regulatory and disciplinary actions brought domestically and internationally by various sporting Governing Bodies. In particular, since 2014 he has acted as an Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer for world tennis; he sits as a Steward of Appeal of the British Boxing Board of Control; he has chaired International Tennis Federation Anti-Doping cases, PGA Disciplinary Panels, WPBSA Disciplinary Commissions and ECB Child Protection appeals, as well as numerous FA Rule K and FA Premier League Panels.

Ms. Guo Cai oversees the International Law and Sports Business practice, Jin Mao Law Firm, the first Chinese law firm to establish a practice dedicated to the sports industry. Ms. Cai graduated from Harvard Law School and China University of Political Science and Law. She also held an LLM in Human Rights (distinction) from the University of Hong Kong. Admitted to practice in China and the US (New York), Ms. Cai specializes in international dispute resolution and sports law, with the aspiration to grow with the Chinese sports industry and connect international best practice with sports in China.

Ms. Cai’s involvement in sport dated back to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, for which she served as a professional volunteer. The case of IOC v. Xinyi Chen in the 2016 Rio Olympics motivated her to specialize in the sports sectors so as to make quality legal services available to Chinese athletes where needed. Ms Cai has successfully represented sportspersons, national and international sports associations in disputes at both domestic and international level, with particular strengths in new, unsettled areas. In 2020, Ms. Guo Cai contributes to the debut of Annual Review on Sports Dispute Resolution in China (2020) published by the Beijing Arbitration Commission, the first time that sports has been broken out from entertainment for separate discussion. She is the co-author of this inaugural volume.

Beth French is the Head of Commercial Projects at FIFA, with a diverse background that combines legal expertise and strategic leadership. She previously served as a lawyer at FIFA, where she gained in-depth knowledge of the organization's commercial structures and key partnership frameworks before transitioning into her current role in commercial projects. Prior to her time at FIFA, Beth worked as a legal and business advisor in the gambling industry for a number of years, specializing in regulatory compliance, corporate strategy, and business & commercial development for major gambling companies.