Michele Uva

UEFA Director Social & Environmental Sustainability

Michele Uva is a sports manager with skills in the areas of company restructuring, business development and sustainability coupled with a strategic focus on complex organisations, including processes of transparency and accountability. He was UEFA Vice-president. Author of six books on the sport and football industry and speaker at COP28, WEF in Davos, UN Global Refugee Forum. He is currently the UEFA Director of Social & Environmental Sustainability, appointed in January 2021 and author of the organisation’s Football Sustainability Strategy 2030 “Strength through Unity”. He has dedicated his entire career to professional sport across several contexts, disciplines and environments. He has performed the role of CEO in sports organisations such as the Italian Football Association (FIGC), the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), professional football clubs (Parma and Lazio), basketball club (Lottomatica Roma) and volleyball clubs (Bologna, Treviso and Matera). He has also operated as international expert consultant in sports management and company reorganisations. In 2017 he was elected as a member of the UEFA Executive Committee, becoming a UEFA Vice-president and acting as Chair of Club Licensing Committee and member of Finance, Club Competition, Strategic Steering, Professional Football Strategy, and Women Committee.

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