Christophe Ait-Braham (2022-2026)
President, 2018-2026 (France)
Secretary, 2014-2018
Christophe Ait-Braham discovered the magic of the Games in the late 80’s during the preparation of the Albertville Olympics.
He joined the Association Française des Collectionneurs Olympiques et Sportifs (AFCOS) in 1994. Two year later, their board asked him to serve as Administrator of AFCOS for their publication, Esprit : Sports et Olympisme, and participate in the memorabilia group. He continued as vice-president from 2003 and 2005, then as General Secretary since 2005.
In 2014, Christophe became the first Secretary of the International Association of Olympic Collectors (AICO), an organization recognized by the IOC, before serving as its President since 2018.
Christophe has been involved in various sports and collecting organizations. For example in 2002, he was Commissioner General of the Olympic Collectors Fair in Albertville for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the organization of the Winter Olympics in Savoy.
In Paris in 2023, he presided over the organization of the 27th World Olympic Collectors Fair and in 2024 he launched, with the two organizations (AICO and AFCOS), the first House of AICO dedicated to fans and enthusiasts of the Games, in the heart of the Paris 2024 Parc des Nations, with an international exhibition “24 héritages olympiques” with the label “Olympiade Culturelle par Paris 2024”.
He has also been involved in the operational organization of several Olympiads (Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Rio 2016, Paris 2024) in voluntary programs, on protocol functions.
His other interests include mountains and Olympic philosophy. He is the author, in 1996, of a Masters thesis on the subject published in Paris’ La Sorbonne Nouvelle. He collects Olympic objects in general and especially mascots and the items around the look of the Games.
He has participated in various written publications, articles, television programs on the Olympic Games, Olympic culture through the prism of collections, including recently “Olympism – A History of the World”, catalogue of the eponymous Exhibition at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris (2024).
Graduate of the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises de Paris, today he works in an international institution on educational programs.
His passion for sport and events is reflected in the participation in running in numerous marathons in the major capitals.
He was awarded the Bronze Medal of Youth and Sports of the French Republic.
