Tine Vertommen

Dr. Tine Vertommen is a renowned expert in safeguarding and preventing violence in sports, with a strong academic and consulting background. She leads the Safeguarding Sport and Society research team at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences in Belgium and serves as a visiting professor at Ghent University. Dr. Vertommen is director of Arch Safeguarding and also a trusted external expert for the Safe Sport Unit at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), where she collaborates on developing evidence-based policies and tools to ensure safer sports environments worldwide. Her mission is to build safer communities by bridging research, policy and practice.