Ginous is a social entrepreneur with nearly two decades of hands-on, grassroots experience in pioneering new fields for human rights transformation, including online, in business, within sport and among faith-based communities.

As Director of Sport and Human Rights with the World Players Association, she founded the World Players CARE Program, including the CASES Project, to end abuse in sport. She has advanced global recognition of the rights of athletes, as people, workers and human rights defenders. Ginous previously led the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA), a global coalition of NGOs and trade unions, and served as interim governance committee member in forming the Geneva-based Centre for Sport and Human Rights. She facilitated the inaugural Sporting Chance Forum in 2016 at the U.S. State Department, where she was special advisor in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

For her Master’s in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, Ginous wrote her thesis on FIFA’s human rights responsibilities and the Swiss government’s duty to enforce them, drawing on the cases of reprisals against female players for filing their gender discrimination class action complaint in connection with the 2015 Women’s World Cup.