Jin Yuanpu is Executive Director of Renmin University’s Humanistic Olympic Studies Centre (HOSC), founded by Beijing Municipal Government and supported by the Beijing 2008 Olympic Organizing Committee. Under Jin’s direction and guidance, the HOSC has conducted extensive research into the Humanistic Olympics - one of the three themes of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the others being Hi-tech Olympics and Green Olympics. The HOSC also annually organizes and hosts the International Olympic Forum, bringing together Olympic experts from China and around the world, and has established good relationships with both the IOC and numerous international universities and agencies focusing on research about the Olympic Games.
Jin Yuanpu is also a renowned expert on Chinese and international literature at Renmin University and Vice Secretary-General of the Chinese Association of Sino-foreign Literary Theories. A prolific writer, Jin has had over 150 articles, essays and books published, including the 2004 and 2005 Olympic research annuals, and a recent book entitled ‘The torch carries people’s love.
Richard Cashman is an Adjunct Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Richard has published a number of books, including 'Staging the Olympics' (1999), and articles on the staging and legacy of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. He has also presented numerous papers on these subjects at international conferences. Before and during the Sydney Olympics, Richard played many related roles, including directing a Centre for Olympic Studies from 1996, organising Olympic forums, teaching Olympic courses, contributing to public debate on the Games, acting as a researcher in the Main Press Centre, writing for the official post-Games Report, and even running with the Olympic torch. Richard Cashman is also a prolific writer on sports history and sport in culture.
Dr Louis Lemkow is Professor of Environmental and Urban Sociology and Sociology of Health at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a public university with over 40,000 students.
Prof Lemkow holds degrees in Sociology, Environmental Sciences and Geography, and was Vice-Rector of the university from 1994 to 2002. He is involved in a number of ongoing research and technical cooperation projects based in the EU, Central Asia, and South Korea, and his current research focus is on the perception of environmental and technological risks. He has been an advisor/consultant to both the World Health Organisation and the European Commission.
Dr Eleni Theodoraki is an academic specialist in sport management and lecturer of Loughborough University's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. For her contribution to the development of sport and Olympism she has been honoured with the 2001 International Year of Volunteers IOC Diploma. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1969 she was under 18 National Rowing Champion and received her PhD from Loughborough University in 1996 for an organisational analysis of British national governing bodies of sport. Her research on sport organisations and the Olympic Games has been published widely and she was strategic planning consultant to the Athens 2004 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
Gavin Poynter is Head, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies. He published 'Restructuring in the ServiceIndustries', Mansell 2000 and has written extensively on work, society and technological change. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick since 1995. He has given keynote speeches and papers on work, society and technological change in Turkey, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Holland and elsewhere. Recently he has written on the relationship between education and work contributing to edited books on the McDonaldisation of Higher Education (Routledge 2002) and the Falmer/Routledge series on Key Debates in Education.
Professor Phil Cohen is director of the London East Research Institute and a Professor of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London. He is the co-author of 'Carrying the Torch' and responsible for developing LERI's research programme on Thames Gateway regeneration and the Olympics. Over the last 20 years he has carried out numerous research and educationalprojects related to the impact of economic change on East London, specifically from the vantage point of groups who are being marginalised or excluded by this process. His books include 'Knuckle Sandwich - growing up in the Working Class City' (Penguin), 'Rethinking the Youth Question' (Palgrave) ,'New Ethnicities,Old Racisms' (Zed Books) and the forthcoming 'Questioning Ethnographies'.
Dr Beatriz García is a Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow Centre for Cultural Policy Research and a member of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games’ Culture and Education Advisory Committee. Dr Garcia is an active researcher in cultural policy and event-led regeneration. Between 1998 and 2000, she was awarded a Mobility Grant to undertake research in Sydney, surveying the planning, implementation and short term impacts of the cultural programme for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. In 2001, she was awarded one of the three annual post-graduate research grants of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, with support from the International Olympic Committee, to investigate the potential for further developing a cultural policy of the Olympic Movement.
In May 2002, the North West Cultural Consortium commissioned Dr Garcia to evaluate the North West Cultural Programme of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. In 2004, she was awarded a grant from the British Academy to conduct research at the Athens Olympic Games. Dr Garcia took up her current post at the University of Glasgow in January 2002 and is co-founder and editor of the online magazine ‘Culture @ the Olympics’ www.culturalolympics.org.uk.
David Powell runs a research and development company, DPA, which is active in the arts and cultural issues and in the wider creative economy. Its work covers the development of arts and creative projects, comment and research, and the establishment and review of policy, strategic and action programmes. David Powell is Thames Gateway London Partnership’s strategic advisor on creative and cultural industries. With DPA, he developed the Joint Cultural Framework for the 5 East London Olympic Boroughs and worked with London 2012 developing plans for the London Olympic Institute. DPA has researched the creative and cultural sectors and developed strategies and programmes for EEDA in the East of England, SEEDA in the South East, Brighton & Hove and at Kings Cross. Earlier projects included the programme and operational development of BALTIC - the catalyst for regeneration in Gateshead - from flour mill to gallery and the Brighton Festival’s successful takeover of the Brighton Dome.
David Powell is Visiting Professor in Cultural Policy and Planning at the University of East London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Forum on Creative Industries.
Loraine Leeson is a visual artist, a Visiting Research Fellow of the London East Research Institute at University of East London, and director of cSPACE.
In 1981 she co-founded and directed the Docklands Community Poster Project, followed by The Art of Change in 1991 and cSPACE in 2002, instigating project work with communities around a variety of issues including regeneration, identity and education. Her current work uses the arts, media and cyberspace to support young people in the expression of visions, dreams and aspirations to feed into processes of social change. In recent years this has involved innovative use of digital technologies and the forging of creative links between higher and further education, and local schools. Loraine’s Cascade project has worked at opening out the research and educational resources of such institutions for the benefit of young people around issues of local regeneration, and has recently focused on the potential impact of the 2012 Olympics. Her work has been widely shown and published in the UK and abroad, and was recently the subject of a retrospective exhibition in Berlin documenting 30 years of her work.
Mary Tebje is Director of TourEast London, a destination marketing organisation aimed at attracting visitors to East London. Mary has extensive experience of working in tourism, marketing, and communications. She has worked for over ten years in various premier London visitor attractions, building considerable skills and experience in marketing, PR, management, new business development, the MICE sector, retail, and visitor services. Mary has been especially busy since 2001. Not only has she started her own business, TourEast London, but she also continues to work for clients in both the public and private sectors and regularly writes technical articles and monthly columns for clients abroad.
Harmander Singh is a policy officer in the Chief Executive's office of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
He studied at North East London Polytechnic (now University of East London) and became a local government officer on graduating in 1983. He has worked at the Greater London Council, London Borough of Hackney as Project Officer in Management Services, as Senior Organisation Analyst in Management Services with London Borough of Lambeth. He has held various policy posts in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets since 1989 where he is now Policy Officer (Faith) in the Chief Executive’s Office and Convener for UNISON.
In a voluntary capacity, he has worked as an an adviser on faith policy to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Office, is a London Civic Forum Member, co-founder of Sikhs in England, and has written two books on capacity building in faith organisations. He is active in several charities, a Justice of the Peace and School Governor. Harmander is a keen marathon runner, having run 21 consecutive London Marathons.
Cllr Clyde Loakes became the Leader of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in July 2003 and is charged with turning around the performance of the borough, which was rated ‘poor’ in the 2002 CPA assessments. After syeady improvement, Waltham Forest is now a 1 star authority categorised as ‘improving well’. He has been a Councillor since 1998 and was Cabinet Member for Environment for a year prior to becoming Leader. He has a particular interest in the engagement of young people, and in issues around inclusion.
Ian Henry is Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University, where he is also Professor of Leisure Policy and Management. Prof Henry’s research interests are focused on issues relating to leisure policies, politics, and governance at the trans-national, national, urban and regional levels, and in relation to Olympism. Recent research topics include comparative sports policy analysis in a variety of countries, and recent commissioned projects include Women and Leadership in the Olympic Movement (commissioned by the IOC, 2002-4) , Sport and Multiculturalism, and Sport and the Education of Elite Young Sportspersons (both commissioned by the European Commission in 2004).
Jane Glanville has been the director for London Higher since April 2002. Her earlier career spanned public, not-for-profit and private sectors. She joined London Higher from KPMG, where she had worked for nearly 4 years on the firms' national public sector advisory practice. She had a senior manager position for KPMG as specialist consultant to the higher education sector. Before KPMG she worked for 10 years in different roles for the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council. Since joining London Higher, Jane has worked closely with the elected Chairman and Steering Committee to develop and implement a proactive agenda for the organisation. This has included the preparation and implementation of London Higher's business plan, profile raising for the organization, and building mutually beneficial partnerships with identified key stakeholders.
Professor Michael Driscoll has been Middlesex University Vice-Chancellor since 1996. An economist by training, he is one of the youngest Vice-Chancellors in UK higher education. He is also a prominent exponent of equal opportunities and plays an active role in many areas of significance to modern universities. Michael Driscoll is Chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities; sits on the Board of Universities UK (the main campaigning body for UK higher education); sits on the Steering Committee of London Higher, sits on the Board of North London Learning and Skills Council; and chairs the Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability.
Professor Thorne has a first class honours degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of London and a PhD from Birmingham. He has published widely both in print and on radio and television. He spent the first half of his academic career in the universities of London and Wales. He then became a Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Sunderland and then moved to Napier University as Vice Principal. He has served on a number of government committees and is currently a member of the board of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation. He is also a board member of the Broadway Theatre Trust, Newham College of Further Education, and is chair of East London E-Learning, the largest UfI-hub in London.
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