Sebastian Coe

2 February 2012

Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG), will be speaking at the 4th edition of the Global Sports Forum Barcelona next 7-9 March.

Seb will be able to give us more insight on the London Olympic Games 5 months before the event and 20 years after Barcelona 1992.

Career

Sebastian Coe is Chair of the Company, having previously been Chairman of the London 2012 bid company.

Seb is a double Olympic Champion and 12-time world record holder in athletics. He won gold in the 1500m and silver in the 800m at both the Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 Games. He retired from competitive athletics in 1990 and became a Conservative MP and Private Secretary to William Hague. In 2002 he was made a Peer – Lord Coe of Ranmore. He received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List.

Seb is also a Vice-President of the International Association of Athletics and controlling shareholder of The Complete Leisure Group, a non-executive director of AMT-Sybex Group, and Chair of the Sport Honours Committee.