
Dr. Julie Gabriel serves as one of WFDF’s two Safe Sport Integrity Officers. Julie has served as the President of the Federation Internationale de Savate (FISav) since 2010. She has also served since 2015 as a member of the board of the Alliance of Independent Recognised Members of Sport (AIMS), the umbrella organization for the international sports federations that are members of GAISF but not yet recognized by the IOC. Julie is one of the founders, and an honorary vice-president, of the Great Britain Savate Federation which was created in 1999. Since 1988 she has been a Director and Senior Instructor of the Cambridge Academy of Martial Arts and Savate Cambridge, in the UK, and has instructor qualifications in martial arts including Savate, Canne de Combat, JKD, Kali/Eskrima, Sombo, and Hapkido. She was also the Training Manager at the Cambridge Women’s Resources Centre from 1988 to 2010. As a competitor, Julie was a member of the Great Britain team in the World and European Savate Assaut Championships from 2005 to 2009, and a European Bronze medalist. Julie received her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Biology from the University of York in 1979 and her DPhil in Zoology/Animal Biology from the University of Oxford in 1983 and she currently resides in the UK’s Greater Cambridge Area.

