Von Toggenburg, who has coached and played ultimate frisbee, currently works for the United Nations on the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

She has been playing the sport in Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and the United States since 2003 and competed at the European Ultimate Championships in 2007 in Southampton.

Von Toggenburg also founded the Lebanon Flying Disc Association when she moved to the country in 2015.

"I would like to thank the WFDF Board of Directors for entrusting me with the role as WFDF sustainability officer," she said.

"My vision for this role is to develop transparent assessment mechanisms with practical recommendations to ensure activities carried out by WFDF and its members are done in a sustainable manner. 

"I am excited about combining my profession and passion in order to mainstream sustainable practices into all aspects of flying disc sports worldwide."

WFDF President Robert Rauch welcomed Von Toggenburg into the role and says her appointment will improve the governance of the organisation.

"The appointment of Johanna von Toggenburg as our first ever sustainability marks another important step in fulfilling our commitment to stage sustainable world events and make sure that WFDF operates under best of class governance procedures," he said.

"We will now be better equipped to apply our sustainability evaluation tools like the Sustainable Sport Event Toolkit provided by our partner AISTS and ensure that sustainability issues are considered when reviewing applications for our development grant projects."