Lord Sebastian Coe

Chairman · Old Trafford Regeneration Mayoral Development Corporation

Sebastian Coe has been President of World Athletics (formally International Association of Athletics Federations) since 2015 after serving as a Vice President since 2007 and was elected to become a member of the International Olympic Committee in July 2020. He currently serves as a Non-Executive Director of Fortescue Metals Group, a Non-Executive Director of Allwyn Entertainment LTD and Non-Executive Director of Allwyn International AG. He is an advisor of the Wasserman Group and Special Advisor to Vitality Health & Life Group of Companies. Seb is the former Chairman of the British Olympic Association and was Chairman of The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Game Limited, having previously been Chairman of London 2012 Limited, the London 2012 bid company. He studied Economics and Social History at Loughborough University and in 2017 he became Chancellor of Loughborough University. Seb set 12 world records during his athletic career. At the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 he won Gold in the 1500m and Silver in the 800m a feat that he repeated in Los Angeles in 1984. After retiring from competitive athletics in 1990 he became a conservative MP and Private Secretary to William Hague, MP, The Leader of the Opposition. In 2002 he was made a Peer. He received a Knighthood in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List and received a Companion of Honour in the 2013 New Year’s Honours List.

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