Board Members 2025-2028 / EASM Office

Aila Ahonen (FIN)

President

Public engagement

JAMK University of Applied Sciences
http://www.jamk.fi/en/

Tim Ströbel (GER)

Vice President

University of Bayreuth

https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en

Irena Valantine (LIT)

Treasurer

Finance matters

Lithuanian Sport University
http://www.lsu.lt/en/

Anton Behrens (GER)

Secretary General

Finance matters | EASM Office

anton.behrens@uni-leipzig.de

Leipzig University
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en

Claudio Rocha (BRA)

Board Member | Co-Lead of the working group on strategic priority 3 ‘Research and knowledge dissemination’

University of Stirling (UK)
https://www.stir.ac.uk/

Kostas Alexandris (GRE)

Board Member | Co-Lead of the working group on strategic priority 3 ‘Research and knowledge dissemination’

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

https://www.auth.gr/en/

Kathy Babiak (USA)

Editor ESMQ

Journal | Research 

University of Michigan
https://umich.edu/

Thomas Junod (SUI)

Board Member | Co-Lead of the working group on Sport Business Industry Connections

UEFA
https://uefaacademy.com/

Ioannis Konstantopoulos (GRE)

Board Member | Co-Lead of the working group on Sustainability and Safeguarding 

University of Lausanne (SUI)
https://www.unil.ch/unil/en/home.html

Grzegorz Botwina (POL)

Board Member | Co-Lead of the working group on EU-Projects, Teaching Matters and EASMentorship Programme

University of Warsaw (POL)
https://en.uw.edu.pl

Ashlinn Walsh (AUS)

Student Representative

Hanze University of Applied Science (NLD)
https://www.hanze.nl/en

EASM Office

Celina Gaedeke (GER)

EASM Office Manager

Leipzig University
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en

Julia Zierl (GER)

EASM Office Assistant

Leipzig University
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en