Doha Goals Fourm to promote transformational agenda for sport

The Doha Goals Forum, the premier platform for world leaders to advance social and economic change through sport, will be returning for a third successive year from 3rd to 5th November.

Last year, the Doha Goals Forum was attended by 1,500 participants from 70 countries, including 150 speakers and 30 sporting champions.

Past years have included prominent speakers such as former President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy; FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, and Olympic medalists including Lord Sebastian Coe, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Mark Spitz, Hicham El Guerrouj, Marie Jose Perez and Nadia Comaneci.

To be held at Qatar’s Aspire Academy, the 2014 Fourm will feature tennis legend Boris Becker along with star athletes Wilson Kipketer, Tegla Loroupe and Jonathan Edwards.

Commenting on the success of the Doha Goals Forum, event Executive Director Sheikh Faisal bin Mubarak Al Thani stated “to watch initiatives go from ideas in discussion to concrete programs implemented across the globe is a remarkable experience, one which fills us with pride.

“(The) Doha Goals Forum helps build the very foundations for youth development and provides means for support in the community.

“Sport is one of the most powerful tools to instil proper values and build character, through our initiatives we create opportunities unique which would otherwise not exist for many young athletes."

Doha Goals Forum Executive Producer Richard Attias adds “sport is a powerful game changer (and the) Doha Goals Forum is a real community of leaders who share this vision and at the 2014 edition we will go beyond this vision and implement impactful initiatives and actions with the support of the private and public sectors.“

Last year, the Forum’s first Ministers of Sport summit yielded the Doha Goals Accord while the Forum itself produced three concrete social initiatives.

1. The Doha GOALS Sport Fields Initiative

2. The Doha GOALS Prosthetics Program

3. The Doha GOALS Sport Solidarity Fund

This year, the Forum endeavours to take stock of those initiatives and determine how best to implement them at the national and community level as well as launch new innovative initiatives and programs.

2014 will again see the Doha Goals Forum again inviting 400 students from across the globe to engage with the forum as part of Student Ambassadors program.

The Forum will also be introducing the Global Watch initiative, an international effort to erase racism and discrimination from the field and playground, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Tokyo Sexwale Foundation.

For more information and to register, contact Richard Attias Associates on + 971 44 230 717, E: dohagoals@richardattiasassociates.com, www.dohagoals.com

17th August 2012 - DOHA GOALS FORUM SET FOR DECEMBER