Executive committee & Scientific committee

Professor Ivan COSTE-MANIÈRE

Programme Scientific Director, SKEMA Business School

Honourly and distinguished Professor for some 65 universities in 25 countries in chemistry and luxury brand management, author of 10 books published by Elsevier, MacMillan and Springer, with more than 400 publications, and active in the sports domain:

Lecturer, Institut de Développement du Sport par la Formation (2016 – Present), Besançon, France.

Project Leader, Business Plans Courses, Wimbledon and Key Biscayne, ATP / WTA Tennis Professional Associations (2016 – Present), Wimbledon, Miami, Florida.

Activities

• President of the Sports, Youth and NGO commission for the Region Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur since 2023
• Member of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (Lausanne, Switzerland) since 2021
• Research Officer International Olympic Academy Participants Association (Olympia, Greece) since 2022
• Lifetime Member of the International Society of Olympic Historians (USA) since 2018
• Spécial Advisor of the Président of the Fédération Française de Hand ball since 2021
• Member of the Board Musée National du Sport Gladiateurs, since 2019
• Vice-Président Comité Français Pierre de Coubertin, since 2020
• Member of the French National Olympic Academy, since 2017
• Member of the National Olympic Academy of Mauritius, since 2019
• Commission de Concertation Académique de l’Enseignement Privé CCAEP Académie Aix Marseille, since 2021
• Conseil Académique de l’Education Nationale Académie Aix Marseille CAVL, since 2021
• Vice-Président Comité Olympique Sportif Région Sud Sport Haut Niveau Collectivités Territoriales, since 2021
• Administrateur délégué Conseil Social du Mouvement Sportif, since 2020
• Administrateur délégué Union Nationale des Employeurs de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, 2020
• Altagama Gamma3 Council, 2020
• Member of the Academic Committee for Private Education. Académie Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, 2020
• Member of the Board of the Commission Régionale du Fonds pour le Développement de la vie associative, 2018
• Vice-Chairman of the Association of the Olympic Academies of the French Speaking Countries, since 2017
Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Association of the French Speaking Countries Olympic Academies, 2014 – 2017
• Conseil Economique Social et Environnemental Région Sud Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, since 2017
• President of the Regional Olympic Committee (CROS Côte d’Azur), 2014 – 2017
Special Advisor of the President of the Olympic Committee, 2008 – 2014
• Member of the Board of the Association of the Economic and Social and Environmental Council of the French Republic, Palais d’Iena, 2014 – Present
• Olympic Committee (Alpes Maritimes) Vice Président, 2013 – 2017
• Chairman of the Aéro-Club of Saint Raphaël Est Varois (Cannes Mandelieu) Private Pilot, 2012 – 2022
• President, Alpes Maritimes Committee Federation for Track and Field, 2000 – Present
• President of Celebrities for Sports and Charities (SAS Prince Albert Monaco), 2005 – Present
• Herculis Monaco IAAF Diamond League Meeting, Head of event, international referee, 2000 – Present
• Vice Chairman Nikaïa International Track & Field Meeting (GP Mobil, IAAF, World Athletics …), 1995 – 2002
• Section Member (Economies Régionales et Aménagement du Territoire) of the Economic and Social Council (Palais d’Iena) of the French Republic, 1993 – 1996
• Special Assistant: Plan de Grasse, City of GrASSE, France, 1989 – 1995
• Member of the Board FRENCH RIVIERA TRACK & FIELD ASSOCIATION, since 1979
• President of the Action Humanitaire Pays de Grasse since 1995

Awards:

• Gold Medal of the Ministry of Sports Youth and Education of the French Republic 2017
• Officier des Palmes Académiques Ministry of Higher Education 2014
• Paul Harris Fellow Rotary International 1995
• Gold Medal Pierre de Coubertin 2015 (CFPC), and Federation Nationale Joinvillais 2017
• Best Professor Marketing World Education Congress 2012 (Mumbaï, India)
• Gold Medal Track and Field Federation 2010
• Iris Award National Fair Play Committee 2023
• 5 times awarded international Olympic Academy (Olympia, Greece)
• Prix Gabriel Tiacoh, Jeux de la Francophonie, Abidjan 2017