Our Board

The Board provides the Think Tank’s broad strategic guidelines. Its functioning and powers are set out in Sport and Citizenship’s articles.

It gathers personalities whose expertise and authority are recognised in their fields and who contribute to the legitimacy of the association.

Members of the executive Board

Trustees 

European affairs department

Trustee
Jonathan HILL / @brusselsrred
Lobbyist

Trustee
Alexandre Miguel MESTRE
Lawyer, Doctor of Law
Former secretary of State for Youth and Sports, Portugal

Trustee
Rose-Marie REPOND / @RoseMarieRepond
Special Counsellor
Berne University of Applied Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM
Former EUPEA’s President
(European Physical Education Association)

Trustee
Thierry WITSEL / @ThierryWitsel
MP
Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Trustee
António SILVA MENDES
European Commission’s former Director of Youth and Sports

Trustee
Marc TARABELLA / @marctarabella
MEP
Co-president of European Parliament’s Sport Intergroup

Development Department

Trustee
Arnaud JEAN
UFOLEP President

Trustee
Didier POULMAIRE / @DidierPoulmaire
Lawyer

Trustee
Victoriano MELERO / @victomelero
General Secretary
Paris Saint Germain

Trustee
Bernard Amsalem
Administrator of the CNOSF and former president
of the French Athletics Federation

Trustee
Frédéric EBLING / @FREDERICEBLING
Director of Public Affairs for France and Southern Europe
AccorInvest

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Editorial Department

Vice-President
Editorial Department
Andrzej ROGULSKI / @rogulan
Governance network project team leader for the Sahel at AFD
(French Development Agency)

Trustee
Roselyne BIENVENU / @rosanjou
Sport Elected member
France Urbaine

Trustee
Sophie DION / @SophieDion74
Director of the Master 2 Sports Law programme, Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne

Secretary General for Legal Affairs
Lilia DOUIHECH / @LDS_journalist
Journalist

Trustee
Tatiana VASSINE / @avocatsport
Lawyer
RMS Avocats

Trustee
Cédric ROUSSEL / @CedricRoussel06
French MP of Alpes-Maritimes

Trustee
Pr Martine DUCLOS
Endocrinologist and physiologist
Chief of the Sport Medicine service at Clermont-Ferrand’s Hospital

Trustee
Anna GERKE / @sportcluster
Associate professor
Audencia Business School

Trustee
Mohamed MOULAY / @mkmoulay

Vice-President for sport
Centre-Val de Loire Region

Trustee
Emmanuelle BONNET-OULALDJ / @EOulaldj
FSGT Co-president

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Reputation Department

Vice-President
Reputation Department
Géraldine PONS / @ponsgeraldine1
Head of Eurosport France

Trustee
Nathalie DECHY / @natdechy
Membre du Comité de Direction, Rolland Garros (Open de France)

Trustee
Ayodele IKUESAN / @AyodeleIkuesan
Olympic athlete Deputy Mayor for Health Paris 18th
Member of the CNOSF and AFLD High Level Athletes Commission

Trustee
Marie-Amélie LE FUR / @mariealefur
President of the Paralympic and Sports Committee
Triple Paralympic champion

Sarah HANFFOU / @HanffouSarah
Former Table Tennis Player
Sports Law Lawyer

Trustee
Jean-Jacques LOZACH /  @SenateurLozach
Creuse Senator
Member of the committee on Culture, Education and Communication

Trustee
Aurélie BRESSON / @aureliebresson
Founding and President of Les Sportives magazine,
President foundation Alice Milliat

Trustee
Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND / @Yann_A_B
President of the GoodPlanet Foundation

Trustee
Yanis BACHA / @yanisbacha
Project Manager, France 2023 endowment fund, Journalist

Trustee
Sophie GUILLON-MOREL
Director of APC, Public Affairs Consultants

Trustee
Régis JUANICO / @Juanico
MP, Co-chair of the Paris 2024 JOP working group

Trustee
Marie PATOUILLET / @MariePatouillet
Doctor, Double Paralympic medalist in para-cycling

Trustee
Gérard PERREAU-BEZOUILLE
Co-president, French Federation of Omnisports Clubs

Trustee
Gaëtane THINEY / @Gaetane Thiney
National Technical Advisor, Member of the France Football Team

Trustee
Laëtitia BERNARD / @loeildelaetib
Journalist, Multiple French para-equestrian Champion