Luca Baracchi

Founder & CEO at LBSE Consulting

Speaker

Luca Baracchi is an internationally recognized advisor with over 20 years of sporting events and exhibitions experience leading strategy, operations, and capacity-building programs across the world’s largest and most complex events, including Olympics, Paralympics, World Expos, Summits and major international sporting competitions and events/sports agencies.

Italian of origin, he speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. A passionate advocate for professional growth and inclusive practices he brings a people-first, governance-driven approach to upskilling event professionals of the future.

Author (re. Sport Governance), Italian Sport Eco-System Associate (ASSI), Founder/CEO at LBSE Consulting and Non-Executive Director at WEESVA.org, he has empowered thousands of professionals and volunteers through training, stakeholder engagement, event operations and protocol excellence worldwide.

He holds various certifications in PMP, Prince2, ISO 20121 and Sustainable Supply Chain Studies from Cambridge Institute and he has overseen multi-million-dollar budgets, cross-functional teams, and high-level diplomatic coordination to enhance events and national goals.

Trained on sports like Judo, Kayaking, Archery and Water-Polo, he has been driving Sport Development and Olympic Integration under the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) leading on projects like YOG2014 and Rio2016 and UIPM Para-sports regulation and classification under IPC supervision.