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The Austrian Veronika Muehlhofer is one of the leading figures in the sport of rugby today. She is the CEO of the Swiss Rugby Union, the national federation for the sports of Rugby in Switzerland, she sits in the Board of...

It hasn’t been easy. In the midst of an unprecedent global pandemic, the 20th edition of the FIFA Master has faced immense challenges in the past months… and they have overcome them all!

This Friday, 17 July 2020, the...

The Autralian-Italian James Kitching recently joined FIFA as its new Director of Football Regulatory. He graduated from the FIFA Master in 2012, and one could say that his career in sports career skyrocketed since then.

The American Betsy Maxfield is another great example of an outstanding professional graduated from the FIFA Master. Betsy started working in the sports industry straight out of university, when she joined, as an...

Before joining the 12th edition of the FIFA Master, the Moroccan-Canadian Rhali El Amrani worked as a corporate banker, but his dream had always been to work in the football industry.

According to Rhali, the knowledge,...

The first ever Princeton Soccer Conference, which was supported by the FIFA Master Alumni Association, was held last weekend, on 7-8 December, at the prestigious Princeton University, in New Jersey, USA.

Within the...

The American Ashley Ehlert started working in sport while still studying at University of Central Florida. She supported the (American) football team, dealing with NCAA compliance issues related to recruitment. She remembers...

The Austrian Martin Kaswurm, 33, co-founded the sports marketing and events agency Chaka2 ten years ago – that was a few years before enrolling in the FIFA Master, in 2013. Through his agency’s activities and his work with...

On September 1st, Emma Twigg (FMA ’15) competed in the World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. Among the crowds screaming from the stands were members from three editions of the FMA. Emma put in an outstanding performance...

A few weeks ago, Martin Kaswurm (Class of 2014), currently the FMA Committee President, presented at the TEDx MCInnsbruck about his visionary endeavour: the creation and promotion of Snow Volleyball, and how that sport may...

On Friday, 12 July 2019, the 19th edition of the FIFA Master graduated at a ceremony at Neuchâtel's Castle.

This years's patron was Brazilian football legend, Leonardo de Araujo, 1994 FIFA World Cup winner, and...

The Spaniard Francisco Porras Lima is yet another example of a successful professional leaving a positive mark in the sports world who has come from the ranks of the FIFA Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport. A...

A sports management course which attracts students from all over the world has been named the best of its kind in Europe for an unprecedented seventh year running.
The FIFA Master International MA in Management, Law and...

On Saturday, 30 March, FGV, Brazil’s most important think-tank, and CIES jointly held their ninth seminar in sport management – this time the theme was “Successful Career Paths in the Sports Industry” – as it celebrated the...

The Brazilian Gustavo Oliveira Vieira is a pioneer. He is one of the 20-plus young professionals who, in 2001, graduated from the first ever class of the International Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, a.k.a....

David Fowler (42), who hails from Scotland, is an experienced marketer with a notable career in the sports industry. An alumnus of the fifth edition of the FIFA Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, he recently...

On 31 January 2019 and 1 February 2019, alumni from Asia and Oceania met in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to attend the first FMA Asia-Oceania gathering.

Abu Dhabi proved the perfect location given that there are...

Last week, Brazil’s President, Michel Temer, sanctioned a new ground-breaking legislation on sports betting, which may alter the fate of all sports, but primarily football, in the country. That event was motivated by the...

THE FMA COMMITTEE WISHES YOU VERY HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A GREAT 2019!

The Brazilian Marcelo Cordeiro, 42, is yet another good example of an accomplished professional who came to impact the sports industry following his graduation from the FIFA Master. The “carioca” (natural...

The Canadian Caroline Anderson is another accomplished sports professional graduated from the renowned FIFA Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport. Currently at FIFA’s Internal Communications, she’s been working in...

Last week, two FIFA Master alumni took the centre stage at the prestigious global football convention, Soccerex, which took place at the Marlins Park in Miami, USA.

FIFA Master Alumni Pedro Trengrouse, Academic...

The Chinese-Canadian Xigang (David) Tang, 46, has had an outstanding career in sports management, since graduating from the 3rd edition of the FIFA Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, in 2003. He recalls: “Right...

On 29 June 2018 to 1 July 2018, the FIFA Master Alumni Association (FMA) held its eighth World Gathering in the Russian capital… and it was remarkable.

More than 80 alumni representing all 17 editions of the...

Moscow, 1 July 2018 - On Friday, 29 June, global leaders in the sports industry took part in the “HSE CIES FIFA Master Alumni Conference: Sport and Future”, in the Russian capital.

The event was organised by the Higher...

The 2018 SportBusiness International global rankings have named the FIFA Master International MA in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport as Europe’s No.1 ranked Postgraduate Sport Management course for a record sixth time....

The Argentinian Jair Bertoni has always been crazy about football – and that love for the game led him to pursue a career in football administration, first enrolling in the FIFA Master, which led him to work at the European...

The Canadian Hannah Burns is another example of a strong and accomplished woman that started to make a difference in the sports industry after graduating from the FIFA Master. Currently the Head of...

This week, FIFA Master alumnus Court Jeske (FMA’04) was featured in the session “Forty Under 40” of the prestigious publication SportsBusiness Journal.

Congratulations, Court!

Forty Under 40: Court Jeske

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 Angelo Rigopoulos is another FIFA Master alumni with an outstanding career in sports. The Italian-Greek lawyer – currently the Head of National Associations Governance at UEFA - has been in love with the game of football from...

February 13th 2018 was a big day for FIFA Master Alumni, and Committee member, Martin Kaswurm (FMA’14) – the creator of snow volleyball, a new discipline recently endorsed by the International...

British-Canadian, born and raised in Toronto, father of a baby girl and a football-lover. That’s Matt Davidson, Senior Director of Global Brand Communications Football at adidas - arguably the biggest soccer brand in the world...

Hi, everyone! A quick update about me. I’m a bit outside the Sports Industry this year. After the experience as Venue General Manager in the last Summer Olympic Games, I took a year off to dedicate to creative projects.

As of 2nd October 2017, the International...

 The Brazilian Andre Zanotta, 37, has risen quite fast to high ranks of club football management in Brazil, since his graduation from the FIFA Master, in 2010. Currently the sport director of Gremio FBPA, one of the country’s...