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28, 2008 (Thursday) |
Breakfast Briefing: An Insider’s View of the 2008 Summer Olympics in China
featuring Charles H. Battle, Jr., Chairman, SCIS Board of Trustees; Of Counsel, Miller & Martin PLLC; and Past Managing Director, International Relations, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games.
Charles H. Battle has served as a key figure in the Olympic Movement for the past 20 years. Mr. Battle enjoyed a distinguished career as a municipal finance lawyer at King & Spalding before his profession took another path. In 1987 he volunteered as one of the “original nine” to secure for Atlanta the designation as the U.S. city to bid for the 1996 Olympic Games by the United States Olympic Committee. He served as Executive Vice President of the Atlanta Organizing Committee and took a leave of absence from law to travel around the world lobbying members of the International Olympic Committee and attending various Olympic meetings to promote Atlanta’s candidacy. He left King & Spalding to join The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) and served as its Managing Director for International Relations.
Mr. Battle was awarded the Olympic Order by the International Olympic Committee for his outstanding contributions to the Olympic Movement. In 2004, Mr. Battle served on the IOC Evaluation Commission for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and was a part of the IOC Sports for All Commission. Thanks in part to his consultation, Beijing won the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, Vancouver won the bid to host 2010 Winter Olympics, and Sochi, Russia won the 2014 Winter Olympics bid. He presently serves as Senior International Advisor for the Chicago 2016 Bid Committee.
In 1997 Mr. Battle became President of Central Atlanta Progress and in 1999, became Executive Director of both the WestPoint Stevens Foundation, a corporate foundation and the Holcombe and Nancy Green Foundation, a private foundation.
Mr. Battle received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964 and his J.D. with highest honors from Emory University School of Law in 1970. He remains active with both schools through many roles and was honored with Emory Law School’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.
He participated in Leadership Georgia and is currently a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Center for International Studies.
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Southern Center for International Studies
320 West Paces Ferry Road, NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
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7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 9:15 a.m. Program
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SCIS Members: $15
Non-Members: $20 |
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