Hitesh, who will take up the role in early May, joins the Coalition from the UK Civil Service where a large part of his career focused on sport at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as Head of International Sport, Major Sports Events and Sports Integrity.

The Coalition is a growing UK-wide movement of more than 230 charities and organisations over-arching thousands of projects and programmes intentionally using sport and physical activity to generate positive social outcomes – as articulated in its new Open Goal campaign which is being launched on April 6th, the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. The Coalition is supported by Sport England, Comic Relief and Laureus Sport for Good.