Professor Leigh Robinson

Chair & Founding Board Member

Leigh Robinson is the Pro-Vice Chancellor: Student Education at the University of Roehampton, having strategic oversight of the learning experience and environment, which helps students achieve their academic potential. 

Based in Cardiff, Leigh has a global reputation for her work in the governance of developing sport nations. She has worked with a range of organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee, the British Olympic Association, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee and the Malaysian Government, providing governance management training and consultancy.

Leigh is a founding member of the Board of Cymru Women’s Sport and has been a member of sport Boards for the last two decades. She is the Chair of the Central South Active Partnership, in South Wales and has been a member of the Board of Sport Wales, Commonwealth Games Scotland and Sportscotland. She is an advisor to Olympic Solidarity, the Education Commission of the International Olympic Committee on their management education programmes, a role she has held for the past 20 years.