Carol Cunningham is the Head of Volunteer Management for parkrun APAC. parkrun is a global movement that supports communities to deliver free, weekly events every weekend, enabling people to volunteer, walk, run or spectate in order to improve their health and happiness. Carol, who herself was the founding volunteer Event Director of Australia’s third parkrun in 2011, supports a network of more than 155,000 amazing volunteers at parkrun events across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. Carol is passionate about supporting more people to understand and experience the range of benefits that volunteering provides for them and their community. Carol believes volunteering should be promoted as a hugely positive experience that can have a transformative impact on many people’s lives — not as a sacrifice, rather as fun, positive and life-affirming. A fellow Chartered Accountant, Carol is originally from Hull in the UK and has worked in cities such as Melbourne, Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore. She is now based in Sydney.

Lindsey has extensive experience in Policy and Strategy, Research and Evaluation, specialising in Sport and Physical Activity. Within her current role as Director Sport Programs, Lindsey oversees the Australian Sport Commission national participation investment programs and leads Industry sector strategy including Physical Literacy, and National Sport Volunteering. Lindsey is Chair of the National Sport Volunteer Coalition. Lindsey is also an Affiliate Academic of the University of Sydney, where her research focuses on the promotion of physical activity and sport at a population level to promote health and wellbeing. At the forefront of a paradigm shift, Lindsey’s most recent academic work focuses on re-defining the meaning and value of sport, working at the intersection of academia, policy, and practice. Lindsey global leadership in this space is reflected through her sport advisory role with World Health Organisation, the parkrun global research board as well as being a founding executive member of the Asia-Pacific Society for Physical Activity.

Richard has been CEO of Water Polo Australia since 2019. He is a generalist and brings an eclectic range of experiences from over 25 years working across many dimensions of sport from grassroots to elite, country to metropolitan, domestic to international, across genders and across sports. Through roles ranging from volunteer coach, referee, and club president through to national coaching roles, leading high-performance programs and now as a CEO, he has developed an empathy for the challenges faced across sport. He is genuinely passionate about creating inclusive and enjoyable environments for people from all backgrounds and of all abilities to share in the value of sport.