Sarah Townsend has been on the Board of EGLSF (European Gay & Lesbian Sports Federation) since 2016 and is currently co-president. She sits on the ENGSO Equality Within Sport Committee (EWS) committee, which advises the Executive Committee on equality matters, and was one of the 15 experts of the European Commission High Level Group on Gender Equality in Sport. Sarah has represented the French LGBTQI sporting federation – FSGL - at international level, and is a delegate with the Federation of Gay Games. Sarah enjoys outdoor activities – hiking, open-water swimming, cycling, rowing – and co-founded Activ’Elles04, to promote women’s sport and to offer women living in a rural setting the opportunity to access these activities.

Kairis Ulp joined the European Commission in 2020, having previously served as the Head of the Estonian Sports Register, the Estonia’s state information system for sport, at the Estonian Foundation of Sports Education and Information. During the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2017, she was the Chair of the Working Party on Sport and in 2018-2020 member of the European Commission’s Expert Group “Skills and Human Resources Development in Sport”. In addition, Kairis has extensive experience in international sport, as she was the member of the FISU Executive Committee in 1999-2019, where in 2008-2014 she chaired the Winter Universiade Supervision Committee.

Ms Floor van Houdt works in the European Commission since more than 25 years. She is currently active as Head of Unit in charge of EU Sport Policy. Prior to this, she worked on several EU policies, including youth, maritime affairs, entrepreneurship and research. Originally from the Netherlands, she studied law and European Studies in the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium before moving to Brussels to start her career in European policy.