Simon Shibli, BSc, ACMA, MILAM
Position: Director of the Sport Industry Research Centre, Sheffield
Hallam University
Simon Shibli is a CIMA qualified management accountant whose specialist
areas of interest are the finance and economics of the sport and
leisure industries. His recent work has been focused on five key
areas:
" The evaluation of major sport and cultural events;
" Athlete development systems and performance measurement in
elite sport;
" Participation data in sport and other cultural pursuits;
" The evaluation of community based sport programmes; and
" Monitoring the performance of local authority sport and leisure
facilities via the Sport England National Benchmarking Service
Simon has a long track record of conducting monitoring and evaluation
exercises for UK Sport, Sport England, national governing bodies,
local authorities, Regional Development Agencies and private sector
clients. He has a detailed knowledge of major sport and cultural
events and has been involved in their evaluation since 1997. Recently
Simon has developed expertise in conducting community based interventions
following his evaluations of Sport England's Everyday Sport campaign
and the Community Sport Programme in Northern Ireland. He is a regular
presenter at major sport and leisure conferences and has also had
numerous articles published in peer reviewed journals.
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