Eleni Theodoraki

Eleni is professor of sport management in UCD's School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science.
During her elite rowing career she was under 18 national champion. Between 1986-1990 she pursued undergraduate studies in Physical Education, Sport Sciences and Sport Management in her native Greece and in 1996 she competed her PhD at Loughborough University, UK, under the supervision of professor Ian Henry and funded by a Greek state scholarship.

Her subsequent academic work career includes lectureships at De Montfort University 1995-1996, Loughborough University 1996-2008 and an associate professorship at Edinburgh Napier University 2008-2020. In the last 25 years she supervised and co-supervised nine PhD students to completion and conducted externally research to the value of £225,540 as principal investigator.

Between 2010-2013 Eleni served as commissioner in the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 where she was appointed by the then Mayor, now British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Since 2013 she acts as academic expert to UNESCO. She speaks native Greek, fluent English, has limited working proficiency in Italian and German and elementary level French, Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin).

Eleni has held visiting professorships/lectureships at:
LUMSA University’s Masters programme in Event Management, Rome, Italy, 2009-2016.
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Masters' Programme: Management des Organisations Sportives, Lyon, France, 2005-2009.
Post Graduate Seminar of the International Olympic Academy, Olympia, Greece, 1999-2008.
MEMOS MSc. Programme, the International Olympic Committee, 2001-2002.
Programme in European Leisure Studies MA programme taught between Universities of Tilburg, Loughborough, Brussels and Bilbao, 1996-2000.