Ali is the Chief Executive at the Youth Sport Trust, a UK charity devoted to building a brighter future for young people through the power of sport. She is a passionate leader, committed to system development, and has a 30-year career in education and sport. Ali joined the Youth Sport Trust in 2004 as a member of the senior leadership team and became the CEO in 2016. Prior to this Ali was the Deputy Director of Sport at the University of Bath having joined as the course leader for the Physical Education Initial Teacher Training programme. Before this Ali was Head of PE at Millfield School, having started her career as teacher in Essex. Ali is a Trustee of both the ‘Youth United Foundation’ and 'The Wave Project' and sits on the Board of the ‘Sport for Development Coalition’ . In 2019 Ali received an honorary doctorate of the University of Bath and in 2020 was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list with an MBE List.

Jax Compton is a proud Traditional Custodian of the Nara Jira Para clan of the Wuthathi peoples (East Cape York). She is also a Zenadth Kes (Thursday, Badu + Moa Islands) woman, mum, daughter, aunty, niece, cousin + cousin sister. She is the current Senior Advisor, First Nations Capability at the Australian Sports Commission working in the Diversity, People + Culture team. Jax is a cultural woman, a holder of a Masters in Cultural Leadership, and an ambassador for her peoples. Her family are cultural practitioners, sportspeople, artists, leaders, and hard workers. Values of work ethic and unwavering contribution to our communities is the lineage Jax continues in her work each day. Not for recognition, or credit, but so when the tide rides, all the boats rise. Her professional career to date, such as Cultural Manager at Teams Mills Foundation and Indigenous Basketball Australia, representing First Peoples at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, in Geneva, on the protection of traditional cultural practices and knowledges, and co-founding Muggera Cultural Enterprise, an Aboriginal cultural education and performance business – for almost 10 years, has enabled Jax to gain knowledge, expertise and skills to design and deliver programs and policies that centre First Peoples, and in doing so honour her Elders. These Elders have taught Jax the importance of finding a passion and purpose and using her skills of her generation to make an impact on the next. Jax values her identity and community throughout her work, as she embodies the values of authentic cultural leadership through the centering of First Peoples knowledges and the unwavering promotion of cultural safety.