Sportconference 2005

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[b]Roy Bahat[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/bahat.jpg' align='left'/>Roy Bahat is director of International Strategy, NYC2012 and coordinated the strategy and day-to-day activities of NYC2012's international relations group.  Since the completion of the Olympic bid, he has been working as a management consultant in New York and Washington, DC.

Prior to joining NYC2012, Roy was a Senior Policy Director in the Mayor's office of the City of New York. On behalf of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, he coordinated New York City's role in rebuilding Lower Manhattan after the attacks of 9/11 and was a liaison to the United Nations. Before entering city government, Roy was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in New York.

Roy graduated from Harvard College, and earned a graduate degree in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

[b]Fred Coalter[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/coalter.jpg' align='left'/>Fred Coalter is Professor of Sports Policy at the University of Stirling. Recent work includes The Role of Sport in Regenerating Deprived Urban Areas (Scottish Executive), Realising the Potential of Cultural Services (Local Government Association) and Sport and Community Development: A manual (sportscotland). He is responsible for compiling Sport England/UK Sport’s Value of Sport Monitor. Current work includes a project for UK Sport developing monitoring and evaluation approaches for sport in development.

He has been a member of several committees and working groups, including: the Council of Europe’s Working Group on Sport and Social Exclusion, the Sports Advisory Board of the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Sport England’s Working Group on Performance Measurement for the Development of Sport.

Currently he is a member of the Scottish Executive’s Scottish Physical Activity and Health Council and adviser to the Department of Culture and Leisure in Northern Ireland on sports strategy. He is also Chair of Edinburgh Leisure Ltd and is a member of the editorial board of Managing Leisure: An international journal.

[b]Chris Gratton[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/gratton.jpg' align='left' />Chris Gratton is Professor of Sport Economics and Director of the Sport Industry Research Centre (SIRC) at Sheffield Hallam University.  He is a specialist in the economic analysis of sport markets.  He is co-author (with Peter Taylor) of six books specifically on the sport and leisure industry, and has published over 100 articles in academic and professional journals.  Their first book , ‘Sport and Recreation: An Economic Analysis’ was generally regarded as one of the leading texts in the economics of sport. It has been completely rewritten and was published as: ‘The Economics of Sport and Recreation’ in August 2000.   Since 1996, when SIRC carried out the economic impact study of Euro 96, SIRC has become the recognised leader in the UK for economic impact studies of major sports events, carrying out studies of over 30 major events since then.  SIRC also specialises in measuring the economic importance of sport in national and regional economies and the role of sport in economic regeneration.

[b]Johann Koss[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/koss.jpg' align='left'/>Johann Koss is one of the greatest winter athletes of all time. The four-time Olympic Gold Medalist in speed skating made world headlines when he won three Gold Medals at the 1994 Lillehammer Games in the 1500, 5000 and 10,000 metre events.  Over the course of his career, he broke a total of 11 world records, won three World All-round Championships, and numerous World Cups and National Championships.
Johann’s achievements on the ice have since been eclipsed by his efforts on behalf of “Right To Play”, a humanitarian organization committed to improving the lives of the most disadvantaged children through sport and play.  Johann first became involved with Right To Play (then known as Olympic Aid) in 1993 when he visited the African country of Eritrea. He was profoundly moved by the plight of the children. At Lillehammer, Johann donated the prize money from his 1500m victory to Olympic Aid and challenged other athletes to do the same.

[b]Winy Maas[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/maas.jpg' align='left' />Winy Maas studied landscape architecture at RHSTL in Boskoop and then architecture and urban development at TU Delft. In 1991, after winning EUROPEAN 2, he started MVRDV with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape design. The first projects of MVRDV, such as Villa VPRO in Hilversum, the “WoZoCos” and the Dutch pavilion for the EXPO2000 in Hanover attracted a lot of attention world-wide.

[b]Berend Rubingh[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/rubingh.jpg' align='left' />Manage to Manage is an International operating consultancy firm, specialized in management of change, with offices in the Netherlands and Australia.
Berend is consultant and interim manager in several branches and with Governmental organisations. He is specialized in Sport and sport related areas, in which he finished several management and consultancy projects. He was one of the founders of the subject area ‘Sport Management’ in Europe, and he is honorary President of the European Association for Sport Management.
Berend is also lecturer and staff member at the University of Groningen, VLEKHO Business School in Brussels, Hanze Institute for Sport Studies in Groningen, The Netherlands Academy for Sport Strategy and Management and the University of Northumbria in Newcastle. He is Co-Author of two books: Strategic Sport Marketing and Sport Facility and Event Management. He is also author of several chapters and articles on sport management, leadership and sport marketing.

[b]Marcel Sturkenboom[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/sturkenboom.jpg' align='left' />Marcel Sturkenboom finished Movement Sciences at the Free University in Amsterdam. Specialized in “Body Orientated Psychotherapy” and “Policy, Organisation and Management”. He continued his education at Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program) and Nijenrode (Marketing).
He is active in sports since many years. Worked in Healthcare and after that for the Ministry of Welfare, Health and Culture, taskforce Elite Sport. After playing volleyball on top level (43 caps) and working as a coach he had a number of positions at the Netherlands Olympic Committee*Netherlands Sports Confederation. Since 2004 he is Managing Director for Sports. As a member of the Team de Mission he was closely associated with the Olympic Games of Atlanta 1996, Nagano 1998, Sydney 2000, Salt Lake City 2002 and Athens 2004. NOC*NSF is busy with the preparations of the Olympic Games in Torino 2006 and Beijing 2008. At this moment Marcel is leading the discussion about the (im-)possibilities to organise the Olympic Games in the Netherlands.

[b]Michel Sudarskis[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/sudarskis.jpg' align='left'/>Michel Sudarskis is the Secretary General of INTA, the International Urban Development Association since 1987. He hold PhDs in Economics and Political Sciences. Before joining INTA he taught on international co-operation and foreign affairs as Associate Professor with several Universities (Strasbourg, Paris, Nice and Lille) and served with international organisations in Italy (1971-1974) and Belgium (1974-1984). Michel Sudarskis writes and speaks regularly on urban issues.

[b]Carole Thate[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/thate.jpg' align='left'/>Carole Thate (33 years) is director of the Johan Cruyff Foundation and former hockeyplayer of the Dutch National team (played 3 olympics, 2 worldcups and captained the team from '96 till '00). She received a masters degree in Child Psychology at the Free University of Amsterdam. Since 2005 she is board member of the organization called Stichting Topsport Amsterdam.

Since 1999 she is working for the Johan Cruyff Foundation. At the moment the Cruyff Foundation consists of a team of 7 people and their aim is to support and stimulate sports projects for children with or without a handicap in Holland and abroad. In 2003 the Cruyff Foundation opened the first Cruyff Court in Lelystad, named after the former soccer player Aron Winter. In 2005 the aim is to open 14 new Cruyff Courts and in 2006 hopefully another 20 or so. The Cruyff Court Orange Field in Rotterdam is one of a series of three. All donated by the players of the Dutch National Soccer Team, who are heading to the World Cup next year. The other two Orange Fields are in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.

More information about the work of the Johan Cruyff Foundation: [url]www.cruyff-foundation.org[/url]

[b]Alexandros Tsiatsiamis[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/tsiatsiamis.jpg' align='left'/>Alexandros Tsiatsiamis is the Chief Executive Officer of AEDA since 2003. He is also Chief Executive Officer of the Municipality of Athens Vocational Training Center and of the Athens Consortium for the Upgrating of the Buildings Facades “New Image for Athens” and the PROSOPSI project. He has also been appointed General Manager of the Municipality of Athens  Operational Center for the Olympic And Paraolympic Games 2004. He is Special Advisor to the Mayor of Athens, Mrs. Dora Bakoyianni.
Mr. Alexandros Tsiatsiamis holds a MA in Marketing, European Advertising Strategy and BA in Business Administration and Organisation.

[b]Bart Zijlstra[/b]
<img src='/images/content/speakers/zijlstra.jpg' align='left'/>Bart Zijlstra is deputy director and head of the top-class sport department of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.
The Dutch government aims at a sportive society in which people both actively participate and enjoy sport. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport therefore promotes the positive values of sport and finances sport activities, both recreational sport and top-level activities, in order to enable everyone to engage in sport and enabling The Netherlands to compete at an international level. It also combats undesirable aspects of sport such as sport injuries and doping. In the new sport policy document 'Time for sport: 2006-2010’, the national government focuses on three major themes in the field of sport being 1) sport and health, 2) integration through sport and 3) top-level sport.

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