Mili joined London Sport in the summer of 2026 as Director of Place, Programmes and Delivery. In this role, she leads major work through Sport England’s national Place Partnership investment, building long-term partnerships with organisations across sectors, including local authorities, the NHS, neighbourhood groups, schools and charities.

With more than 20 years of experience across national and local government, she has worked with numerous senior Members of Parliament, providing high-level political advice and strategic support. As Deputy Leader of Brent Council, she oversaw a wide range of major projects and initiatives, from housebuilding and council tax setting to securing investment in open spaces and parks.

She also successfully led a campaign to tackle gambling-related harm, helping to drive changes to legislation aimed at reducing the over concentration of high-street adult gaming centres in areas experiencing high levels of deprivation.

Passionate about empowering individuals and communities, she is committed to bringing people and organisations together to create lasting improvements in people’s lives and the places they live.

Emily Robinson has served as Chief Executive Officer of London Sport since February 2022, where she focuses on increasing physical activity and improving health outcomes across the capital. In this role she also sits on the London Partnership Board chaired by the Mayor of London, as well as various health and sport related working groups. Emily is an independent member of the nature charity’s WWF Impact committee.

She previously held senior roles at UK Anti-Doping, including Interim CEO and Director of Strategy and Education, and earlier was Deputy Chief Executive at Alcohol Concern, where she founded the highly successful “Dry January” behaviour change campaign, now undertaken by 17 million Britons each year.

Apart from her professional experience in health behaviours, Emily also likes trying new sports, having tried five a side football a couple of years ago for the first time, Emily is now trying to take up tennis!

David joins us from London Youth Rowing (LYR), where he worked as COO for the last 9 years. As well as operations, during his time with the charity he also supported fundraising, governance and delivery of annual competition and fundraising events, both virtual and in-person.

Prior to working at LYR, David completed the On Purpose Associate programme, designed to help people move from corporate careers into the charity and social enterprise sector. As part of the programme David worked at Ealing Community Transport, an accessible transport charity and Big Society Capital, an organisation set up to kickstart the UK’s social investment market. Prior to On Purpose, David worked in Financial Services at Goldman Sachs and Fidelity, initially helping to open new offices across Europe and the Middle East and then working in the Institutional Asset Management teams at both organisations.

David studied Engineering at the University of Cambridge and has a Masters in History from Birkbeck College, University of London. To keep active, he runs regularly and plays five a side football.

Tanya joined London Sport in 2021 and leads the organisation’s communications, public affairs and advocacy work to influence policy, shape public debate and build partnerships that help tackle inequalities in access to sport and physical activity across London.

A senior communications and social impact leader, Tanya has an extensive track record of developing purpose-led campaigns, strategic partnerships and advocacy initiatives that drive measurable social change.

Before joining London Sport, Tanya worked with leading brands including Lloyds Banking Group, Aviva, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Reebok and Samsung to develop partnerships that increased participation, engagement and long-term community impact.

Tanya is passionate about the power of sport and physical activity to improve lives, and outside of work when not out running or walking the dog, she’s ferrying her son to his many sporting activities.

Jade is an experienced senior leader having worked in leadership roles across digital, data, insight, operations and education for National Governing Bodies, Active Partnerships and Local Authorities.

She leads the Insight and Impact Directorate, ensuring that all London Sport delivery is led by research and data and contributes towards our strategic outcomes.

The work that Jade leads at London Sport contributes towards the strategic direction and progress of data and impact initiatives across the sports and physical activity sector. She has contributed significantly to the progress of the Open Active initiative, having previously been a member of the national steering group. Having previously held NED positions in sports, she is currently a member of the Moving Communities strategic Board.

Jade is a graduate, ex facilitator and ongoing supporter of the Women’s Sports Leadership Academy. She is a graduate of Brunel University and the Sport England Future Leaders Programme at the Cranfield School of Management.

Outside of work she is a mum of two busy boys, enjoys swimming, playing netball, countryside pursuits and having fun with friends and family.