Ammar Alrefaei

Dean of Sports Law and Governance

Ammar Saeed Alrefaei is an academic at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah working on sports law and the governance of sports institutions, and is listed by the conference organiser as Dean of Sports Law and Governance. The university engages this field through its College of Law, which has convened a Sports Law and Investment forum on the legislative framework for investment in sport, the governance of federations and clubs, and financing routes. At the summit he speaks on ownership of athlete data, covering the legal and ethical ownership of tracking data and medical records across clubs, federations and vendors, athlete consent and data portability, the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law and where international sports bodies have settled on data governance.