Frank Huisingh
Founder / coordinator
Frank founded Fossil Free Football after a career with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He works on it full time: organising campaigns, involving more and more people, coordinating the team and speaking to the media about the need to make football fossil fuel free. He supports Ajax.
Tessel Middag
Star Player
Tessel currently plays professional football for Rangers FC in Scotland. Previously, she played for ADO Den Haag, AFC Ajax, Manchester City, West Ham United and Fiorentina. She also played 44 matches for the Dutch national team and was active at the 2015 World Cup. She's also an historian, with a focus on the history of women's football. Tessel is a member of the player's union in both Scotland and the Netherlands. She is very concerned about the climate crisis and convinced that football can play a major role in social change.
Zach Lubin
Volunteer
Zach recently graduated with a master's in International Relations from the University of Glasgow. Originally from Los Angeles, he played at a high level growing up and joined teams in Scotland and South Korea during his studies. He is now pursuing a career in global environmental governance and sustainable development. During his free time, he helps Fossil Free Football with research focused on football in North America. He supports Manchester United.
Vitas Carosella
Volunteer
Vitas is a young professional with a master’s degree in International Relations. He is American, but has spent many years living all across Spain. He is committed to environmental causes and the restructuring of football in a sustainable manner. He fell in love with football watching Zinedine Zidane and is a Real Madrid fan.
Patrick Caskie
Volunteer
Patrick is a master's student at the Global Development Institute, studying migration and global development. He also works in the recruitment side of the football industry and is a fan of Glasgow Rangers. He sees a crucial need for football to become more environmentally conscious, equitable and sustainable, viewing fossil-free football as the perfect platform and coalition of voices to promote this message.
Ali Hines
Volunteer
Ali has over ten years experience in campaigning, investigations and advocacy, working on environmental and human rights issues. She has held senior policy and campaigns roles within the non-profit sector, most recently at Global Witness working on land and land and environmental defenders, and now works as a freelance consultant based in Edinburgh and London. She believes in the power of football for structural and progressive change. Supporting Leicester City has given her the belief that the unachieveable is, in fact, achievable.
Bas Bijlsma
Board president
Bas has worked for a more sustainable world in different roles: as an activist, diplomat and political advisor. He saw how the climate crisis has a huge impact on the most vulnerable people around the world. He is keen to make sure football is no longer used to promote big polluters.
Peter Crisp
Campaigner
Peter is a football fan and campaigner who has always loved sport and the natural world. He wants to ensure that football is a source of positive change by communicating Fossil Free Football's message to audiences everywhere. He is a Manchester United fan, from the U.K and Australia, and now lives in the Netherlands.
Daniel Lissoni
Volunteer
Daniel works as a Communications Officer for an environmental NGO in Brussels. In his free time he helps FFF by developing communication materials. He supports AS Roma.
Christian Kuitert
Volunteer
Policy advisor by day, musician by night and always an FC Twente fan. Although this sentence already dedicates too many words to his career at the very bottom of the Dutch football pyramid, Christian is dedicated to making sure the multi-billion industry at the top becomes more sustainable and operates responsibly.
Samran Ali
Volunteer
Based in Philadelphia, Samran is a data analytics professional at an environmental nonprofit. An Arsenal supporter, he recognises a critical need to eliminate fossil fuel dependency in football. He believes in leveraging data analytics to drive this transformation and aims to be part of a growing coalition of voices advocating for a greener, more equitable future for football.
Diederick van der Linden
Volunteer
Diederick is a young professional. He believes it's time to stop listening to money in our most beloved game. Unfortunately, it has become a platform for sponsors who add nothing to society and have a negative effect on people. If the football world can set an example, the rest of society will (hopefully) follow suit.
Eric van de Giessen
Board treasurer
Eric always loved to play football. Now he manages a youth football team in Utrecht. He enjoys witnessing how football strengthens players' creativity, perseverance and cooperation skills. Each player has her or his own added value on the pitch. This translates to the global climate crisis: we all need to do our part - and cooperate effectively - to tackle this huge problem together.
Roy Blokvoort
Board Member
During working hours, Roy is mainly preoccupied with the remnants of the Second World War. Outside of office hours, he is a football junkie, who has watched more football than he ever played (unless you count games on Football Manager). He did play football, non-professional in every sense of the word, in the youth teams of Focus '07 & the 6th team of King's College Football Club. He supports FC Twente & Tottenham Hotspur, and supports the Fossil Free Football-cause as secretary of the board.
Nori Spauwen
Board Member
Nori is an activist-turned-diplomat-turned-activist-again. She deeply cares about climate change, equal rights for women and queer people, and fighting racism. The highlight of Nori's years as a diplomat in Paris, was being able to attend every game of the Women's World Cup, where the absolute love of her life - the Oranje Leeuwinnen - álmost won. Still trying to get over that lost final, she decided to join the board of Fossil Free Football to make sure our beloved game does not wreck the earth. On the side, Nori is a coach and trainer for activists, and writes a book about healthy activism.
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