Anna Chanduvi manages sports media partnerships for Facebook across EMEA. She helps sports broadcasters leverage Facebook and Instagram to drive commercial objectives for their FTA, PayTV, digital-born or linear broadcasting businesses. Having been at the forefront of sports media trends, Anna enjoys passing on her knowledge to students as a part-time professor of sports media at the Football Business Academy and has guest lectured at universities including Loughborough and Birkbeck.

Prior to her role at Facebook, Anna managed content strategy and rights acquisition for beIN Sports around the world and had a dream career start at the NBA, having grown up being a fan and player of the sport throughout school and university.

 Anna is also very passionate about advancing gender equality in the sports industry and is the founder of WBR Network – a digital-first production company sharing stories of women breaking records in sports. In recognition of her professional and personal talents she was also selected as a Sports Industry Next-Gen Leader in 2019 an impressive feat she accomplished before turning 30.

 In this episode of In Her Corner, we talk to Anna about the pivotal role that unrelenting perseverance played in breaking into the sports industry, the positive influence that her mixed heritage and upbringing have had on her professional success and the work she’s doing through her WBR Network to advance gender-equality in the sports industry.

You can listen to the trailer for Anna’s episode using the player below:

Anna’s full episode will be released at 1pm GMT on Wednesday 24 March and will be available to listen to on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other major streaming platforms.

Podcast theme track by Wayne Urquhart  and Mix Engineering by Nick Murphy.