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

Président
European Affairs department
Laurent THIEULE
Directeur, Committee of the Regions
Former President, Havas Sport.

Vice-President
Development Department
Amel BOUZOURA / @AmelBouzoura
Sponsoring and Sport partnership Director
FDJ / La Française des Jeux

Vice-President
Reputation Department
Nathalie IANNETTA / @nathiannetta
Communication Consultant

Vice-President
Editorial Department
Andrzej ROGULSKI / @rogulan
Cooperation and Cultural action
French Institute of Madagascar Director

Secrétaire Général Nicolas GYSS / @NGyss Ancien membre de la Direction Générale CONNECT, Commission européenne. Ancien consultant, Cabinet d’études Kern European Affair

Secretary General
Alexandra FOURNIER-BIDOZ / @AleksandraFB
Sport Senior Consultant
Deloitte

Secretary General
Nicolas GYSS / @NGyss
Consultant
Former member of DG CONNECT
European Commission

Treasurer
Pierre-Hervé GAUTIER
President-Founder
Robert Abdesselam Foundation

Trustees

European affairs department

Président
European Affairs department
Laurent THIEULE
Directeur, Committee of the Regions
Former President, Havas Sport.

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
Virgine ROZIERE / @VRoziere
MEP
Vice-President of European Parliament’s Sport Intergroup

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

Trustee
Thierry ZINTZ / @ThierryZintz
Professor at Leuven’s Catholic University
Vice-Président of the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee
President of the European Observatory of Sport and Employment (EOSE)

Trustee
Roberto PELLA / @roberto_pella
Italian MP
Member of the Committee of Regions

Trustee
Cyrielle Sénéchal-Chevallier / @cyrielle_sc
Consultant
Deloitte France

Trustee
Laurent PETRYNKA / @lpetrynka
President
International School Sport Federation

Development Department

Vice-President
Development Department
Amel BOUZOURA / @AmelBouzoura
Sponsoring and Sport partnership Director
FDJ / La Française des Jeux

Trustee
Bruno BARBIER / @ba2bru
Consultant

Trustee
Laurent DAMIANI / @LaurentDamiani
Entrepreneur et investor Sport and Innovation
SPORSORA’s President of Honour

Trustee
Yves Hinnekint / @HinnekintYves
General Director – Opcalia

Trustee
Victoriano MELERO / @victomelero
General Secretary
Paris Saint Germain

Trustee
Emmelyne RAVIER / @EmmelyneRavier
Head of institutionnal and International affairs
French Football Federation

Trustee
Bernard Amsalem
Vice-president
French Olympic Committee

Trustee
Emmanuelle ASSMANN / @E_Assmann
Former president
French Paralympic Committee

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

Trustee
Antoine HAYS / @antoinehays
Olympic and Paralympic Project manager
Lacoste

Editorial Department

Vice-President
Editorial Department
Andrzej ROGULSKI / @rogulan
Cooperation and Cultural action
French Institute of Madagascar Director

Trustee
Roselyne BIENVENU / @rosanjou
Sport Elected member
France Urbaine

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

Trustee
Lilia DOUIHECH
Temporary teacher and researcher
Sport Law PhD Student
Paris Dauphine University

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

Reputation Department

Vice-President
Reputation Department
Nathalie IANNETTA / @nathiannetta
Communication Consultant

Trustee
Nathalie DECHY / @natdechy
Steering Committee Member, Rolland Garros (French Open)
Co-director of ENGIE Biarritz Open

Trustee
Ayodele IKUESAN / @AyodeleIkuesan
French Sprint Athlete

Trustee
Mathilde GUENEGAN / @mguenegan
JournalistTrustee

Sarah HANFFOU
Former Table Tennis Player
Sports Law Lawyer

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

Trustee
Arnaud SIMON / @arnaudsimon
Vice-President Content and Production Sport
Eurosport / Discovery Group