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Panel Speakers
Todd Beane – International Director, Johan Cruyff Institute of Sport Studies
M.A. in Education, Stanford University, USA B.A. in English, Dartmouth College,
USA Rotary Scholar at the University of Sussex, England USISL Professional Soccer
Player, USA United States Soccer Federation “A” Licensed Coach. Areas of
expertise: Leadership Management Principles, Educational Training and Coaching.
Todd Beane is International Director of the Johan Cruyff Institute of Sport Studies. He has vast educational
experience, both as a professor and manager. He was Faculty Director of the Native Vision Program at the
Johns Hopkins University in USA, and served as Director of Cloud Forest School in Costa Rica. He is invited
to perform as keynote speaker at international congresses, such as the conference of the European Association
of Sport Management, the National Congress of Education in the Netherlands and the Global Sport
Forum in Barcelona. He has published various articles on Total Athlete Development and contributes to
books, such as “Contemporary Sports Management”, Parks Quarterman Thibault.
Sandra Benveniste – Freelance CSR Consultant
With a degree in Economic Law from the University of Deusto, and a Master’s
degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics,
Sandra lived in Latin America for five years, working as project officer of the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Mexico and as Director of the Foundation
for Sustainable Development in Guatemala. In Spain she has worked as Programmes Director of the Ecology
and Development Foundation and was the Spanish Representative of the AVINA Foundation. Sandra
currently works as a free-lance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) consultant, working mainly for Johnson
& Johnson Iberia, and teaches CSR courses at several business schools and universities. She is also a
board member of Creas.
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