Kirsty Burrows is Associate Director Safe Sport, Health, Medicine and Science at the International Olympic Committee, leading the IOCs commitment, strategy and approach to addressing interpersonal violence in and through sport and the protection and promotion of mental health and well-being across the Olympic Movement. A recognised authority in athlete welfare, Kirsty co-authored the IOC Mental Health in Elite Athletes Toolkit (2021) and authored the IOC Safeguarding Toolkit (2017). She has contributed to key academic works, including the Routledge International Handbook on Athlete Welfare, and served as Academic Director for the IOC Certificate: Safeguarding Officer in Sport programme (2021–2024). Kirsty represents the IOC on the Board of the International Safeguards for Children in Sport and is a member of the Council of Europe’s Pool of Experts in Safe Sport. She holds a first-class honours degree in Physiotherapy, an international master’s in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, and is currently completing a PhD in Athlete Human Rights at Canterbury Christ Church University.
