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Sports betting and corruption: How to preserve the integrity of sport
Pim VERSCHUREN – Researcher, IRIS
Pim Verschuuren has worked with IRIS on international sports issues since 2010. He contributed to
Pascal Boniface s book La Coupe de Monde dans tous ses Etats (The World Cup in all its States)
(2010) and coordinated the research program on Sports Betting and Corruption together with Sarah
Lacarriere.
Pim Verschuuren is also jointly responsible for the basic education diploma (Master 1 level) at IRIS
Sup . More broadly, his areas of expertise relate to aspects of defence and international security. He
completed an internship at the European Commission s Directorate-General for External Relations,
where he worked on EU relations with the countries of East Asia.
Pim is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Rennes. His dissertation was on French nuclear
doctrine since the end of the Cold War. He also spent one academic year at the University of
Queensland, in Australia, where he studied international relations in North East Asia, before obtaining
a Master 2 degree in "Law and Politics of International Security" at the University of Amsterdam.
Alexandre TUAILLON, Deputy Director, IRIS
Alexandre Tuaillon, a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lille and the University of Lille 2
Faculty of Law, joined IRIS in 2001. Prior to this he worked for various local authorities (City of
Villeneuve d'Ascq ) and companies (EDF, Eurostar).
Alexandre Tuaillon was Communications Officer at IRIS (2001-2006), after which he was appointed
Director of External Relations (2006-2009), and became Deputy Director in 2009. Having managed
the process leading to IRIS recognition as a public interest body, he is now in charge of corporate
relations (civil sector) and civil contracts with international institutions. Alexandre also manages
IRIS professional training programs (in-house and corporate) and is responsible for the management
of the IRIS Board of Directors. Alexandre Tuaillon is an elected local representative (for the town of
Montreuil and the Communaute d agglomération Est Ensemble, Seine-Saint-Denis).
University of Salford
David FORREST - Professor of economics, university of Salford, UK, and Honorary Professor, Macao
Polytechnic Institute
David Forrest studied Economics at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada. He is an economist
and econometrician, and specialises in two areas: sports and gambling. Over the past decade, he has
published some 50 academic articles and authored official reports on corruption in sport and child
gambling in Britain. He acts as a consultant to various British regulatory bodies and is an experienced
commentator in the media.
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