MBus (UNSW) 2016
Born in 1986, Jessi is a former World Junior Champion Surfer and was on the WSL Women’s Championship Tour for 6 years before succumbing to injury. In 2012, aged 25, she retired after 10 years of professional surfing with her highest ranking being 4th in 2006. During her competitive career, Miley-Dyer also took on the Surfers' Representative role, allowing her the opportunity to help grow the sport as an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Board Member and Director.
Jessie received the Ben Lexcen Sports Scholarship to study at UNSW and undertook a Masters in Business at UNSW, graduating in 2016.
Since joining the WSL in 2012, Miley-Dyer has been integral to professional surfing's growth, particularly in developing the women's Tours. Jessi Miley-Dyer is the Chief of Sport for the World Surf League (WSL), the global home of surfing. In this role, Jessi oversees the entire competitive landscape for the WSL’s Tours and competitions, including the Championship Tour, Challenger Series, Qualifying Series, Pro Junior Series, Big Wave, Longboard, and specialty events/series.
Miley-Dyer has led milestones for professional surfing through her work with the WSL. In 2022, the WSL hosted the first fully-combined men's and women's competition schedules for the Championship Tour and Challenger Series. Miley-Dyer was key in the WSL's groundbreaking 2018 announcement to award equal prize money to male and female athletes for every WSL-owned and operated event from 2019 onwards, becoming the first and only US-based, global sports league to do so. Miley-Dyer also introduced the WSL Rising Tides program, a community engagement program to inspire the next generation to take to the surf. Her work has received worldwide recognition for surfing and women's sport. Most recently, she was honored as a 2022 Sports Business Journal (SBJ) Game Changer for her groundbreaking work at the WSL. She was inducting into the UNSw Sport Hall of Fame in 2018.
