Former IOC director of communications Giselle Davies has become the chief executive of a new company designed to look into whether Dubai should bid for the 2020 Olympics.
Falcon and Associates will run a study into the feasibility of bidding for the 2020 Olympics but also the 2020 Paralympics and the World Expo, which is being known collectively as the Dubai 2020 initiative.
The company was established by vice president of the UAE and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, and is designed, according to state news agency WAM, to allow Dubai to achieve “inward and outward social, economic and trade-related goals.”
Giselle, daughter of former BBC TV football commentator Barry Davies, joined the IOC in 2002 and has been widely praised for her performances during the Beijing Olympics, widely acknowledged as a difficult Games for the Olympic Movement following the concerns over China's human rights record.
She retired from the IOC last year and since then has spent most of her time in Dubai.
