Advancing the global Fair Play movement across the AmericasU.S. 501(c)(3) · Est. 2015
International Fair Play Committee leaders at the 2025 Fair Play Awards

Our team

People of principle.
Leaders in action.

Meet selected leaders helping the worldwide Fair Play movement turn integrity, respect, and human dignity into action across sport and society.

Leadership across borders

One movement.
Many perspectives.

Fair Play Americas belongs to a worldwide family of athletes, educators, officials, and advocates who believe that how we compete matters as much as the result.

The people featured here bring together the International Fair Play Committee’s global leadership and Fair Play Americas’ regional operations. Their experience connects the Americas to a worldwide network working to make ethical excellence visible, teachable, and enduring.

Executive leadership

Experience that serves
a greater purpose.

The officers guiding the International Fair Play Committee unite institutional stewardship, international perspective, and a shared conviction that true excellence must include character.

Sunil Sabharwal speaking at a Fair Play eventUSA

President

Sunil Sabharwal

Elected President in 2025 after more than two decades as Treasurer and Secretary General, Sunil is leading the movement toward a more global, representative, and connected future. He brings experience from elite sport, international finance, and public service.

Leadership focusGlobal growth · Partnerships · Ethical leadership
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Bert van de Flier receiving a Dutch royal decorationNED

Acting Secretary General & Treasurer

Bert van de Flier

A distinguished international fencing administrator, Bert has served the Fair Play movement since 2012 and as Secretary-Treasurer since 2015. An FIE Hall of Fame member, he has built lasting bridges between governance, education, and fair play in fencing.

Leadership focusGovernance · Stewardship · Fencing
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Erdoğan Arıpınar receiving the Fair Play Service Honorary AwardTUR

Vice-President

Erdoğan Arıpınar

A veteran sports journalist and long-serving advocate for ethical sport, Erdoğan also leads the Turkish Olympic Committee’s Fair Play Commission. His work has helped turn fair play into visible national programs, awards, education, and public action.

Leadership focusPublic engagement · National action · Recognition
Read Erdoğan’s story
Hanna Wawrowska speaking at a Polish Olympic Committee eventPOL

Vice-President

Hanna Wawrowska

Elected Vice-President in 2025, Hanna champions gender equity and women’s participation in sport governance. As Chair of the Polish Olympic Committee’s Fair Play Council, she connects Olympic values with education, recognition, and cultural change.

Leadership focusGender equity · Olympic values · Education
Read the leadership announcement

Council, legacy & Americas operations

A wider circle of leadership.

Selected people extending the movement through athlete leadership, institutional memory, and the digital work that connects Fair Play Americas with its communities.

Portrait of Dr. Jenő KamutiHUN

Permanent Honorary President

Dr. Jenő Kamuti

An Olympic fencer, physician, and lifelong advocate for sportsmanship, Dr. Kamuti served as President from 2001 to 2025. His stewardship helped carry fair play from an honored sporting tradition into a living global movement.

Leadership focusLegacy · Olympic values · Human dignity
Read the Nemzeti Sport profile
Emma Terho speaking beside the Olympic flagFIN

Council Member

Emma Terho

A three-time Olympic ice hockey medalist and former Chair of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, Emma brings an athlete-centered voice and a commitment to fairness, respect, and equal opportunity.

Leadership focusAthlete voice · Olympism · Equal opportunity
Read the Council announcement
Paul Tergat at an Olympic eventKEN

Council Member

Paul Tergat

The Olympic silver medalist, former world record-holder, and IOC Member brings the insight of a legendary athlete committed to clean, ethical sport across generations and continents.

Leadership focusClean sport · African leadership · Next generation
Read the Council announcement
Portrait of Nicolas SabharwalUSA · Fair Play Americas

Online Operations

Nicolas Sabharwal

Nicolas supports the digital systems and online operations that help Fair Play Americas share its work, connect with communities, and keep the movement accessible across the region.

Leadership focusDigital operations · Access · Connection

Profiles and photography sourced from the International Fair Play Committee, International Fencing Federation, Polish Olympic Committee, and Nemzeti Sport, with additional team photography supplied by Fair Play Americas. This is a selected team presentation, not a complete list of Council members or regional representatives.

How we lead

Principle becomes powerful
when it becomes practice.

01

Listen widely

Build with athletes, young people, educators, sporting bodies, and communities across the Americas.

02

Act visibly

Celebrate courageous choices and make positive examples powerful enough to shape culture.

03

Think beyond the podium

Advance systems in which fairness, dignity, and opportunity are part of how success is defined.

Join the work

Bring your perspective.
Strengthen the movement.

Fair play advances when committed people and organizations choose to lead it—wherever sport is played, taught, governed, or celebrated.

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