Fabre elected top exec for Val d'Isere 2009 effort

Jean-Luc Fabre has been elected as the director general and president of the board of directors for the organizing committee of the 2009 World Alpine Ski Championships in Val d'Isere.

JEAN-LUC FABRE has been elected as the director general and president of the board of directors for the organizing committee of the 2009 World Alpine Ski Championships in Val d'Isere.
    The committee's surveillance council unanimously supported the appointment of Fabre, who will now be the executive head of the organization. Proposed for his new role by Roselyne Bachelot Narquin, the French Minister for Sport, Health and Social Affairs, and Sophie Dion, chief sports advisor to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Fabre succeeds Jean-Paul Pierrat, who remains a member of the board of directors.
    The organizing committee also was rocked by the resignation of Jean-Claude Killy as president of the board of directors earlier this summer. Fabre will be counted on to provide stability to the Val d'Isere 2009 effort.   
    Fabre, a lawyer by training, is currently secretary general at the Prefecture of Maine and Loire. He is also an experienced mountain guide and indeed his two children are qualified ski instructors. Fabre will participate in the next Val d’Isere 2009 FIS Coordination Group meeting in Zurich later this week.
    FIS President Gian Franco Kasper commented: “We welcome the appointment of Jean-Luc Fabre in Val d’Isère. It is crucial for the championships that the focus can now be firmly on the work in hand and we fully expect with the structural and personnel changes this will now be the case. There are less than 100 days to the first FIS World Cup races on the new course for the ladies that will serve as key test events and an ideal opportunity to showcase the championships.”