POWER WOMEN

decade, most recently led Animal Planet, one of the company’s biggest channels.

CHALLENGING TIMES

Dinnage arrives at the Premier League amid a time of great change, however; with media consumption habits changing, she will be charged with figuring out a strategy to keep the money flowing as consumption of Premier League matches — in Britain, but also in places as far afield as Bangkok and Boston — increasingly shifts to online platforms.

In two decades at the Premier League, Scudamore managed to keep the competition together amid rising tension between its richest teams — wealthy northern clubs like Manchester United, Manchester City, and Liverpool, and the London powerhouses Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham — and the rest.

The most powerful clubs’ battle for a greater slice of league revenue most likely will intensify in the coming years, as will new threats. Earlier this month, for example, leaked documents obtained by a consortium of European news media groups showed that some of the continent’s top teams, including Premier League giants like United and Liverpool, had been involved in discussions about a possible breakaway competition.

Dinnage’s tasks also will include figuring out a way of keeping the Premier League, one of Britain’s biggest international success stories, prospering if the country follows through on plans to exit the European Union.

Dinnage will not assume her new role until 2019, the league said, as her start date will depend on coming talks with Discovery. But Discovery’s president, J.B. Perette, endorsed her for the new role.

“She has been a fantastic teammate for all of us at Discovery, and we are delighted that she has been given this unique and groundbreaking opportunity to lead one of the world’s pre-eminent sports organizations,” Perette said in a statement released by the league. FATMA SAMOURA NATHALIE DE LA TOUR INDRA NOOYI CLAIRE WILLIAMS JEANIE BUSS

AFP Dinnage is senior executive at Discovery Communications. A look at women currently in positions of power in sports. The French executive was elected president of France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) in November, 2016.

Daughter of LA Lakers owner Jerry Buss, the 57-year-old is now the controlling owner of the basketball team.

The former Senagalese diplomat took over as the secretary general of FIFA in June, 2016.

Claire became deputy team principal and commercial director of the Williams F1 team in March, 2013.

Former Pepsico chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi was named the first female director of ICC in February this year.