Vincent Ven is a Swiss/Hong Kongese sports lawyer who has undertaken several roles within football governing bodies since 2012. From 2017 to 2020 he held the position of Head of Integrity at FIFA and in August 2020, Vincent joined UEFA as Head of Anti-Match-Fixing.
His and his unit’s core responsibilities and activities are to promote and preserve the integrity of European football matches and competitions. More specifically, Vincent’s role is to develop UEFA’s anti-match-fixing strategy through preventive measures, integrity related investigations and the establishment of integrity programs in coordination with various stakeholders such as the 55 UEFA National Associations, international organisations and law enforcement agencies.
Besides, Vincent has been elected as a member of Tennis Europe Ethics Commission in 2023.
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Viviane Hoffmann is Deputy Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture in the European Commission, since 2018.
From 2014 to 2018, she worked as Director in the Commission's Directorate-General for Communication.
She previously was Deputy Head of Cabinet of former Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding (Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship). She was also Mrs Reding's Deputy Head of Cabinet during her mandates as European Commissioner for Information Society and Media (2004-2010) and for Education and Culture (1999-2004).
In 1997-1999, Viviane Hoffmann worked as assistant to the Director-General for Health and Consumer Protection in the European Commission. In 1996-1997, she was an assistant to the Secretary-General of the European Commission, after having worked in the Commission's Secretariat-General since 1988.
Viviane Hoffmann studied political science and international relations at the "Université Libre de Bruxelles".
Viviane Hoffmann speaks Luxembourgish, French, German and English.
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Wanda Wendel-Vos, Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (born 1972)
Wanda is senior researcher in the field of Sport, Physical Activity and Health and has been working in the field of public health for over 20 years. Her PhD thesis was entitled ‘Public Health Aspects of Physical Activity’. Many of her projects have a multi-disciplinary character, connecting the field of health with other fields such as transport, environment, education and sport. Her main areas of work are determinants of physical activity, monitoring of sport and physical activity, physical activity promotion, epidemiology of physical activity and physical activity assessment. Within her institute she is the program coordinator for sport and physical activity. For the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport she coordinates a broad set of key indicators describing sport and physical activity.
She represents the Netherlands at the EU-level as HEPA Focal Point and is the current vice chair of the WHO HEPA Europe Network.
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