Directors

Roselle Gonsalves is a strategic Governance Professional and PhD with over 15 years of experience advancing institutional transformation, stakeholder relations, and strategy across corporate, academic, and community sectors.

Gonsalves served as a Governor and Board of Curling Canada from 2021 until 2026.

Robin Niven from Scotland was elected to the World Curling Board in September 2021 for a four year term. This initial term was extended by one year following the Board election restructure.

Niven is a Rural Entrepreneur with business interests ranging from farming, renewables, hospitality, retail, and sports all hosted on the family farm unit.

He is the past Director and Chair of Royal Caledonian Curling Club, and more recently Chair of British Curling, the Great Britain Olympic and Paralympic Curling Programme.

Niven was re-elected to the Board at the World Curling Congress in 2026.

Jill Officer from Canada was elected to the World Curling Board in 2024.

In 2018, Officer was an elected to the Athlete Commission. Then in 2021 was elected to the role of Chair and originally sat on the Board in that role.

As an athlete, Officer represented Canada at seven World Women’s Championships, winning two gold medals and world titles, one silver medal and one bronze medal.

Officer represented Canada at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, winning Olympic Gold with a perfect 11-0 record.

Officer is the High Performance Director of CurlManitoba

David Sik, from Czechia, was elected to the World Curling Board in September 2024 for a four-year term.

Sik was Czechia’s Representative to World Curling for 11 years, from 2013 until his election in 2024. And Czech Curling Association President from 2013 until 2024.

As an athlete, Sik represented Czechia in seven European Championships and two World Senior championships.

Karen Wauters is a chartered account professional who is the Board Effectiveness Chair and member of the  Nominations and Sustainability Governance Committee, ILA (Luxembourg Institute of Governance).

Wauters was a founding member of the World Curling Nominations Committee and World Curling Structural Review Working Group.

Andrew Ryan MBE, from England, joined the Board following his time as the Executive Director of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) based in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 2006 until the end of 2024. 

His career prior to that role saw him working as a national coach in England, Norway and France in the sport of badminton, then at the Badminton World Federation from 1994 to 2005 where he was Chief Operating Officer. 

Ryan brings extensive experience of the Olympic movement to the Board, following almost 20 years as a member of the International Olympic Committee Programme Commission. He was involved in various Evaluation Commissions covering several editions of the Olympic and Youth Olympic Games, and was also a member of the Coordination Commission for the Commonwealth Games. 

Ryan was awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Queen’s Honours List. 

Zhang Hong, from China, joined the World Curling Board as its second Independent Director, in August 2025.

As well as being an Olympic champion in Speed Skating, Zhang boasts an accomplished career contributing to the Olympic movement, including most recently chairing the Coordination Commission at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games between 2020 and 2024.

In addition, Zhang brings valuable experience to the World Curling Board as a member of several International Olympic Committee (IOC) commissions, including the Evaluation Commission for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the Athletes’ Entourage Commission, the Athletes Commission and the Future Hosts Commission.

She is also a current member of the Olympic Council of Asia’s Advisory Committee, an Executive Board Member of the World Olympians Association (WOA) and a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Harri Lill from Estonia was elected to the position of Athlete Commission Chair in 2026.

As an athlete, Lill has represented Estonia at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games Mixed Doubles Competition and nine World Mixed Doubles Championships, winning a silver medal in 2024.