Fiona Chambers is one of Europe’s leading academics working in the field of Sport, Education and Innovation.

She has been a senior leader in higher education for more than 30 years with a real focus on sport and innovation.

Over that time she has also developed expertise across many areas of business including in strategic design in multinational educational environments and human-centred innovation.

In April 2020 she founded the Global Design Challenge for Sport and Physical Activity, drawing in ideas on improvement from around the world.

She has been a Senior Lecturer in Education at University College Cork and sits on the Sport Ireland Coaching Committee. In October of this year she was elected as Vice President of CEREPS the European Council for Physical Education.

She was awarded the Federation of Irish Sport / KPMG Women in Business in Sport award in May 2023.

Prior to her work at UCC she worked at AIB for six years and as a secondary school teacher in Cork for ten years.

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See who else has been included so far on the list for 2023

This is the 11th edition of our Sport for Business listing of 50 Women of Influence in Irish Sport.

Read more about the list and nominate who you think should be a part of it in 2023.

We are proud to publish the list in partnership with AIG, an organisation that has pledged its commitment to equality in its partnerships with Gaelic Games, Tennis, Golf, and more, for whom “Effort is Equal” and with whom we have ambitious plans to extend the reach of this annual celebration of the Women who are making a difference.

This year’s list will be drawn as before from the worlds of leadership, partnership, storytelling, and performance.

We began this journey in 2013 when challenged that we would never be able to produce a list of twenty Influential Women in Irish Sport. The 20 stretched to 30, then 40 and 50 and it still does not do justice to the talent that is out there.

This year once more, to keep things fresh we will step up again, raising the number of new entrants to at least 40 percent of fresh names from last year.

It will be the hardest part to have some names replaced but if it was too easy it would be of less value.

The list we will build over the coming weeks is a snapshot of those women who are making a mark on how sport is played, consumed, grown, and delivered.

They are part of making the role of women in sport unexceptional by being exceptional in what they do.Â