Dr Trisha Leahy

Dr Trisha Leahy, PhD, JD BBS is the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Sports Institute. Dr Leahy has also previously worked at the Australian Institute of Sport, and was awarded the Australia Medal for services to Olympic sport in 2000. She was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission’s expert consultative group on the prevention of abuse in sport from 2007, 2016. She was also a member of a UNICEF expert working group advising on research and policy to prevent violence against children in sport from 2007,2009. She was the Founding Co,chair, and is a Board Member of Safe Sport International, a UK, registered NGO focused on safeguarding in sport. From 2015 to 2017, Dr Leahy was a Board member of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation, an international, USA, based organisation focusing on the development of women’s leadership around the world.

Dr Leahy served on the Hong Kong SAR Government’s Women’s Commission from 2011,2017; the Equal Opportunities Commission from 2013,2019, where she was the Convener of the Legal and Complaints Committee from 2017,2019; is currently a Member of the Hotel, Catering and Tourism, Board of the Vocational Training Council; and of the Hong Kong University Grants Committee’s Education Panel, for the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Sports Science and Physical Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

Dr Leahy was awarded the HKSAR Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) in 2014 for her services to the community and to sport.