Think Football 2018: Fatma Samoura, FIFA secretary general, guest of honour on 01/02/2018

Fatma Samoura, the secretary general of FIFA, is the guest of honour at the second edition of Think Football, organised by News Tank Football at the University of Paris-Dauphine on Thursday 01/02/2018.

"Technology: Transforming the Economy of Sport" is the theme of this one-day Think Football 2018 event, whose ambassador is, as in 2017, Gérard Houllier, a former coach, manager, and national technical director, and the current head of global football at Red Bull.

Fatma Samoura will take part in the opening address of Think Football 2018, and she will then participate, at the end of the morning, in a debate about the next major international competitions organised by FIFA (2018 World Cup in Russia and 2019 Women's World Cup in France, in particular). She will be joined in this panel by Brigitte Henriques, deputy vice-president of the FFF, and Erwan Le Prévost, director of the local organising committee of the 2019 Women's World Cup. This debate will moderated by Nathalie Iannetta, who has just left UEFA, where she was "chief advisor", to join, since late 2017, a consulting agency in…