Dr Kari Fasting is a professor emerita at the Department of Sport and Social Sciences, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. She is a founding member, and past president, of WomenSport International (WSI) and past president and honorary member of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA). She started publishing in the area of sexual harassment and abuse about 25 years ago and is one of the pioneers with respect to prevalence studies on sexual harassment in sport. Recently she carried out the first larger study about violations of athletes in Norwegian sport. She is often an invited speaker at international meetings and conferences. Dr Fasting is an expert consultant in the prevention and safeguarding for the Norwegian Olympic, Paralympic and Confederation of Sports. She has also done research and worked with UNICEF, the Czech Olympic Committee and the Olympic Committee of Zambia. Professor Fasting has provided expert input to the International Olympic Committee’s work on preventing and responding to harassment and abuse since 2006, primarily in relation to the three consensus statements (2007, 2016, 2024). Kari Fasting is a member of the Council of Europe’s pool of international Experts on Safe Sport, and a founding member of Safe Sport International (SSI).
