Dr Sheila Nguyen

• Sport
• Major Events
• Sustainability
• Infrastructure
• Operations

Dr Sheila Nguyen’s 20+ years of professional life can be understood as service to our natural world- via sport.  For her work, Sheila was given the Honorary Lifetime Member award from the British Association for Sustainable Sport (BASIS) and recognised as an Australian Financial Review Top 100 Women of Influence (2019).

She has contributed to research, SXSW 2023, TEDx 2015, &  COP21 in Paris (2015), the first-time sport has been invited to the climate agreement discussions.  Sheila was the invited Chair & MC for the Sustainable Innovations in Sport Forum in Amsterdam (2018) (Ajax Stadium) and was the co- MC and Chair for Sport Positive, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Sport for Climate Action Framework signatories supported forum every year since its inception.

Sheila is a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Associate and sits on a number of boards and advisory committees including as an Independent Director on the World Lacrosse Sustainability Committee, member of both the technical and revision committees for ISO 20121: 2012 Event Sustainability Management Systems, and recently served as a judge for both the British Association for Sustainable Sport (BASIS) Awards 2023 and SailGP’s Impact League Awards 2024.

She successfully delivered the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Sustainability Strategy as the tournament’s Head of Sustainability, and is the Co-Founder and an NED of the Sports Environment Alliance, the coalition of sport & planet leaders in Australia and New Zealand working to protect the places where we play so we can continue to do what we love- watch and play sport.