Brian Cookson
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Brian Cookson OBE |
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Brian Cookson OBE
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22 June 1951 Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Salary | 340.000 CHF (per annum) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | briancookson |
Michael Brian Cookson OBE (born 22 June 1951) is the president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), having been elected to the post in September 2013 at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.
Cookson previously served as president of British Cycling from 1997 to 2013, after becoming a member of an emergency committee to rescue it from insolvency in 1996. He has been credited with turning the sport around since taking on his unpaid role as president and under his presidency, British cyclists have won 19 Olympic Gold medals, 28 Paralympic Gold medals, the Tour de France four times, and multiple World Championship titles in disciplines of Road, Track and BMX.
Graduating in 1973, Cookson retired in March 2013 from his mainstream career, where he was employed by Pendle Borough Council as Executive Director (Regeneration) having gained wide experience in strategic management of multi-facetted organisations, and of managing teams of staff engaged in major programmes of urban regeneration and renewal.
Cookson is married to Sian, has 3 children and lives in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
Administratively, Cookson has held the following offices; Division Road Race Secretary, 1981-5; Division Vice Chairman 1984-7; Division Chairman 1993-7; BCF Racing and Executive Committees 1984-93; BCF Executive Committee/Board 1996–present. He has represented cycling at the British Olympic Association since 1996.
Cookson qualified as a UCI International Commissaire (i.e. judge/referee) in 1986, working on events such as the Tour of Britain, the Milk Race, the Warsaw-Berlin-Prague Peace Race and stage races in Australia, South Africa, Germany, Spain, France. Brian has also been involved in World Championships in France, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the Barcelona Olympic Games.
Internationally, he was elected to the UCI Management Committee in 2009, and was appointed as President of the UCI Cyclo-Cross Commission from 2009 to 2011, then President of the UCI Road Commission from 2011 to present.
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