About

WiF interim chair Ebru began her professional career in New York, as a financial analyst in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley, and served as a senior manager at Citibank and AIG between 1992-2000.

After joining in 2001, Ebru has held several senior positions at Galatasaray. Following the merger of football, stadium and marketing companies in 2010, she was appointed as the General Manager of the merged entity, Galatasaray Sportif A.S.

Ebru was the first woman to be elected to the Executive Board of European Club Association in September 2010 and she served as the Vice Chairwoman of Institutional Relations Working Group.

She was the recipient of the “Executive of the Year Award 2011” by Stadium Business Awards.

In October 2011, she was appointed as the General Secretary of Turkish Football Federation. After leaving TFF in 2012, she joined in FIFA’s Development Program as a consultant, became mentor at FIFA Female Leadership Development Program and UEFA Women in Football Leadership Programs and also served as a consultant at UEFA between 2016-18.  

Ebru is currently a Senior Advisor at J Stern & Co, Non-Exec?tive Director at Doublepass BV and MNT Healthcare, a member of the Scottish FA Equality and Diversity Advisory Board and is also a founding member of the 30% Club Turkey.

Ebru is a graduate of Brown University, with dual degree in Economics and International Relations and Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Jean is head of corporate and commercial law at the law firm she founded, Bevan Kidwell LLP. Jean’s practice covers the full range of corporate commercial work – specific expertise includes acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and shareholder issues, as well as customer facing documents such as standard terms. Industry expertise includes the financial and regulatory sector (in particular spread betting, CFDs, FX and financial services).

Sue directs the Centre for Sports Business at Liverpool University. She has worked in business and football education for over 20 years. 

She designed and directs the League Managers’ Association football manager Diploma and is a Non-Exec Director of the LMA's Institute. She has taught around the world for clients including FA Wales, Qatar FA, Qatar Stars League, Portuguese Football Federation, Azerbaijan FA. 

Sue has run research projects in sport and football for the LMA, PFA, FA, Women in Football, Sport England, Department of Culture, Media & Sport. Sue is on the UEFA Research Grants and Awards Jury. She is the author of books including Football Brands, Football Management and written articles on topics including football sponsorship, women in football, football leadership and football employment.

Ben is UK Marketing Director at Just Eat, a leading global marketplace for online food delivery. As a member of its Senior Leadership Team, Ben is instrumental in driving Just Eat's continued growth and has responsibility for consumer and restaurant marketing programmes across the UK.

Prior to joining Just Eat, Ben had an impressive track record, building impactful marketing strategies and driving the success of some of the UK’s fastest growing digital brands, including Betfair and most recently Notonthehighstreet.com where he established the brand as a lynchpin of the online retail landscape.

Liz is the Head of the Sports Law practice at Mishcon de Reya Solicitors. She is a trusted advisor to football clubs, sports promoters and governing bodies. She has represented clients in cases before FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport, as well as domestic disciplinary hearings. 

Liz has been an FA Licensed Players Agent since 2004 and is a member of The Football Association's Agents Panel. In 2013, Liz was featured in the FA's "20 Years, 20 Careers" project, which aims to encourage women to pursue careers in sport. As well as Women in Football, she is a member of the British Association of Sport and Law (BASL), and the Women's Sport Network.

Anna has been writing about sport for The Observer since 2004, and The Guardian since 2008. Her work has taken her around the world covering Olympic Games in Athens, Beijing and London 2012, as well as World Cups and World Championships. She has interviewed some of the biggest names in sport.

In 2007 Anna co-founded the Women in Football network with Shelley Alexander. Mother to her two own mini-WiFs, Anna hopes to help make football a more welcoming environment for future generations of women wanting to work in the beautiful game.

She was awarded an MBE for services to journalism and women’s sport in the 2016 Queen’s birthday honours list.

Lungi has worked in professional football for over 5 years, supporting the board of directors and senior management, she is efficient in planning, organising and working collaboratively to influence, design and deliver initiatives, essential to the accomplishment of the business.

She is currently the HR Manager at Charlton Athletic Football Club and has led on a number of projects, including the implementation of the EFL BAME Regulation 111 and the completion of the EFL Equality Code of Practice.

A graduate in Psychology, Lungi is especially interested in developing people and believes in the balance of diversity and representation at all levels of football.

Vikki has been a staff football writer with The Sun since 1995, the first female appointment of its kind by a tabloid in this country.

Her work has since taken her from the Conference to European Championships and World Cups.

Prior to that she covered football at weekends for the Daily Mail – where her first report for a national newspaper was Arsenal v Norwich, the day the Barclays Premier League was launched in August 1992. She has also covered four Olympics, six World Athletics Championships, three Commonwealth Games and more than a dozen Wimbledon tennis championships as well as the French Open at Roland Garros.

A long-suffering Sheffield United fan she blames Bramall Lane legend Tony Currie for being responsible for a life spent watching football matches - and getting paid for it.

As a Public Policy MSc graduate from the University of Glasgow, with previous postgraduate qualifications in Law, Equality and Discrimination, Hala is a keen equalities campaigner who is passionate about football and female participation.

She is currently working as Accessibility & Diversity Manager at FIFA following a spell at the Scottish FA as an Inclusion and Diversity Officer. Hala specialises in using sport to progress needs-orientated sustainable community engagement, development and coordination of social inclusion and integration programmes working with disadvantaged and marginalised communities.

An example of her recent projects has been the development and coordination of cultural and religious awareness workshops to grassroots sports clubs in the West of Scotland, in line with the UEFA Captains of Change programme.

Hala is a member of several equalities groups and most recently sits on the British Council’s Scotland Advisory Committee and is the Founder and Chair of Inspiring Women Scotland, a female led organisation promoting empowerment and leadership for multicultural young women.

Jo is an Executive Producer and Talent Manager with 15 years experience in the industry. She is CEO of Tongue Tied Media- a sports agency and production company.

She was the Editor of flagship BBC football programmes such as 606 and documentaries with Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho and is ingrained in and passionate about the world of sport.

She started her career at the BBC aged 21 as part of BBC Talent. During her time there, while working on programmes such as Wright and Bright, Fighting Talk and BBC1's Inside Sport, she set up a project with funding from the Football Foundation to teach sports reporting to young homeless people across Great Britain. While working for the World Service Jo spent time in Africa teaching media skills to footballers and journalists. She is a Director and Trustee of the Jason Roberts Foundation.