Michal Buchel

The CEO of the International SAMBO Federation (FIAS) since 2013, Michal leads the delivery of services to national SAMBO federations and handles liaison with Olympic Movement stakeholders to guarantee the recognition and development of SAMBO worldwide. Michal is also a AIMS Council Member and the Vice-Chair of the EPAS consultative committee.

From 2005 to 2011, he worked for FISU in Brussels in the preparation, operation and delivery of the games sports programme, including venue planning, coordinating venue inspection visits and optimising event logistics for the Summer and Winter Universiade.  

From 2011 to 2013, Michal joined SportAccord as the multi-sports games unit manager and consultant, in charge of coordinating the organisation of multi-sport events, managing knowledge transfer to future event organisers and the preparation of bidding documents for SportAccord.

As a consultant, he also provides expertise in games coordination and event operational planning, having assisted the organising committees of the Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan, EYOF Tbilisi 2015, Asian Games 2018 and others.