4 02 PARIS 24 .6BIOGRAPHIES Tony Estanguet Etienne Thobois Paris 2024 President Paris 2024 Chief Executive Officer aks aks ©Rudy W ©Rudy W An ESSEC Business School graduate and former slalom canoeist, Formerly France’s number one badminton player, Étienne Thobois Tony Estanguet is the only French athlete to have won three gold represented his country at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. medals at three different Olympic Games: Sydney 2000, Athens A graduate of the ESCP Europe Business School, he has held 2004 and London 2012. Also a three-time individual world and management positions for a number of major sporting events, including European champion, Tony Estanguet was France’s flagbearer at Director of Finance and Spectator Services at the 2003 World Athletics the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and was elected a member of Championships in Paris and CEO of the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. the International Olympic Committee in 2013. He also sat on the IOC Evaluation Commission for the 2016 Olympic In 2015, he co-chaired, with Bernard Lapasset, the Paris Bid and Paralympic Games and is a member of the Badminton World Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Federation’s Executive Committee. became the president of the Organising Committee after the city Thanks to his career as an elite athlete and his experience as an was awarded the Games in Lima.. administrator, he possesses an excellent knowledge of French and global sporting issues. The CEO of Paris 2024’s successful bid, Etienne Thobois was subsequently appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Organising Michaël Aloïsio Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Chief of Staff of the Paris 2024 President Anne Descamps Director of Communications aks ©Rudy W A former elite taekwondo fighter and graduate of Kedge Business School, the Sorbonne and ESSEC Business School, aks Michaël Aloïsio worked for the French Taekwondo Federation for ten years, from 2000 to 2010. He then joined the staff of the then ©Rudy W French Minister for Sport, Chantal Jouanno, before becoming an S Olympic attaché to the French embassy in the United Kingdom A public law graduate from the Université Paris II Panthéon Assas and the E for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Paris Institute of Political Studies, Anne Descamps was as a consultant at M A In 2013 he was appointed an executive representative of the communication consultancy Euro RSCG and then Havas before working N G French Committee of International Sport, created by the French for the Secretary of State for the Budget, Christian Eckert. She later joined E National Olympic Committee (CNOSF) and the Ministry for Sport the staff of Emmanuel Macron during his time as French Minister for the P 4 O to define a national strategy for international sporting relations. Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs, taking up position as a press and 2 In 2015, Michaël Aloïsio was named deputy CEO of the Paris communications officer. Her next post was as Director of Development and 0 S 2 2024 Bid Committee and then chief of staff to Tony Estanguet, Communications for the political party La République En Marche. I president of the Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Anne Descamps was then appointed Director of Communications for the R A Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. P 48