Janice Shardlow

Biography

Janice is a solicitor and has extensive experience in governance, both in the commercial and sporting contexts, and as a non- executive director and an audit committee member.

For 11 years she acted as General Counsel at the British Equestrian Federation (BEF) – the national governing body for equestrian sports - where she set up a comprehensive legal support system providing advice to the equine Olympic and Paralympic teams and across all grass roots activities, including horse welfare.

She spearheaded the GB campaign to change the international equestrian federation’s (FEI) approach to anti-doping and controlled medication following the Beijing Olympic Games, designed and implemented the new national anti-doping and controlled medication system introduced in 2011-12 and has worked since to influence the FEI to continuously improve equine welfare standards in international sport.

Janice is a lawyer who specialises in governance, assurance and integrity issues. She acts as a consultant and as a non- executive director and audit and risk committee member, both in the regulatory and sporting contexts.

She was previously General Counsel at the British Equestrian Federation (BEF) – the national governing body for equestrian sports - where she set up a comprehensive legal support system providing advice to the equine Olympic and Paralympic teams and across all grass roots activities, including horse welfare. She spearheaded the GB campaign to change the international equestrian federation’s (FEI) approach to equine anti-doping and controlled medication following the Beijing Olympic Games, designed and implemented the new national anti-doping and controlled medication system introduced in 2011-12 and has worked since to influence the FEI to continuously improve equine welfare standards in international sport. She also sat on the first Board of the new UK national anti-doping organisation, UKAD, for over 8 years and acted as Chair of its Audit Committee.

She currently sits on the Board of the FEI and is Chair of its Audit and Compliance Committee, She is a member of the Audit and Assurance Board of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (responsible for UK national policing) and Legal Director of the governance consultancy, Governance United. She is President of the International Paralymic Committees’s Independent Anti-Doping Tribunal, and is a Sports Resolutions UK Arbitrator, Specialist Member and a member of the National Safeguarding Panel.

Committee membership

•  Audit and Risk Committee