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