“I studied Sport Science at the German Sport University and Social Sciences at the University in Cologne. I did my PhD in Gender Studies in 1998. Since 2003 I am the Deputy Head of the Institute of European Sport Development and Leisure Studies and I am responsible for the research activities in the fields of Sport Policy, Sport for Development, Social work, and Sport. I give lectures in the MA International Sport Development and Politics, MA Sport Management and the MA Sport Tourism and I am also Lecturer in the European Master Programme “Health and Physical Activity” at the University of Rome. I edited more than 20 books and published around 70 articles in the area of Sport Policy, Sport for Development, Sport and Social Work, and Sport and Gender. I am a member of the Editorial Board of different international journals (such as the “International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics” as well as the “Journal of Sport for Development”). Since 2002 I am board member (President from 2017 – 2019) of the European Network of Sport Education (ENSE).”