A delegation from the Automobile et Touring Club du Liban (ATCL) is taking part in the FIA General Assembly in Paris this week. It includes club president Sheikh Fouad El Khazen, vice-president Nabil Karam, secretary-general Camille Edde, FIA MENA coordinator Imad Lahoud, board member Mario Chalala and national sporting committee director Suleiman Khattar.
Top of the agenda is the election of a new FIA World Council on Friday, December 8, when current president Jean Todt of France is due to be re-elected.
For Lebanon, Lahoud, born in 1976, is set to take two important new international posts. He will become a vice-president for the Middle East and North Africa region, where the UAE’s Mohammed Ben Sulayem is due to be elected FIA Vice-President for the region in place of Qatar’s Nasser Khalifa Al-Attiyah, who did not stand. Lahoud will also be named president of the FIA Hill Climb Commission at the request of President Todt.