PARIS 2024 OPEN GAMES PARIS 2024 50 Thierry Reboul Brand, Creativity and Engagement Executive Director Lambis Konstantinidis Director of Planning and Coordination, IOC/IPC Relations and IKM Sophie Lorant International Relations Director Anthony Piqueras Director of Venues and Infrastructures ©Rudy Waks ©Rudy Waks ©Rudy Waks ©Rudy Waks A graduate from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and a former Head of Advertising at Air France, Thierry Reboul founded the events company Ubi Bene in 2000. Under his direction, Ubi Bene became one of the most creative and innovative companies of its kind, organising a number of spectacular events, including the projection of the image of French basketball player Tony Parker jersey on the Statue of Liberty and a Perrier-sponsored zipline off the Eiffel Tower. Thierry Reboul also designed a number of events for the Paris 2024 Bid Committee, such as the installation of a floating athletics track on the Seine. He was then appointed Brand, Creativity and Engagement Executive Director for the Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A graduate in international relations from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Grinnell College and the School of Advanced Studies – Johns Hopkins University, Lambis Konstantinidis began his career as the head of relations with African and French- speaking countries for the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. He then worked as an organiser/consultant for the Turin 2006, Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010, London 2012 and Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games, offering his expertise in international relations and athletes services. From 2013 to 2015, he was Director of International Relations for the Toronto 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games before joining the Paris 2024 bid as its Head of Sport and Paralympic Integration. In 2015 the Governing Board of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) appointed him a member of the Paralympic Games Committee. Lambis Konstantinidis is the Director of Planning and Coordination, IOC/IPC Relations and the International Knowledge Management (IKM) Programme for the Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A graduate from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Sophie Lorant started out in humanitarian aid and then worked as a journalist for TF1 and France Télévisions before setting up an audiovisual production company. In 2007 she became the parliamentary advisor to Fadela Amara, the then Secretary of State for Urban Policies. She then joined the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as the Continental manager for the National Olympic Committees of Africa. After London 2012, she became the Head of NOC Services at the Baku 2015 European Games Operation Committee in Azerbaijan. Sophie Lorant joined the Paris 2024 Bid Committee as International Relations Director, and, following the success of the French bid, took up the same position with the Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Today she is in charge of NOC NPC relations and services, Protocol, Olympic and Paralympic family services, language services and International cooperation. An engineering graduate from the ESTP Paris, France’s leading school of civil engineering, Anthony Piqueras embarked on his career at management consultancy firm Algoé, where he helped organise the 2007 America’s Cup and the French pavilion at Expo Shanghai 2010. He then moved to Keneo (now MKTG Paris), a sports marketing agency specialising in the provision of support services to the organisers of sports events, where he was responsible for France’s bid to host the 2019 Women’s Football World Cup, and the Swiss bid to host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne. Initially a technical consultant to the Paris 2024 bid, he was appointed its Technical Director in 2015. Anthony Piqueras was then appointed Director of Venues and Infrastructures for the Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.