MAGAZINE OF THE EUROPEAN LOTTERIES, 2011, SEPTEMBER ...
MAGAZINE OF THE EUROPEAN LOTTERIES, 2011, SEPTEMBER ...
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has developed a comprehensive guideline on Risk<br />
Management for the Lottery sector in Europe.<br />
The purpose of this document is to assist risk managers<br />
and/or operation managers of Lottery organisations<br />
to be proactive and identify risks before they<br />
occur. Guidance is given on how to avoid or limit the<br />
impact of a risk occurring and its effect on the business<br />
activities.<br />
The content of the document reflects current European<br />
trends in risk management and helps to ensure<br />
that Lottery organisations take appropriate steps<br />
to inform and protect themselves against risks that<br />
might affect their operation. It also helps in enabling<br />
the organisation to limit the frequency and impact<br />
of such risks. Much of the information contained in<br />
the document is the “pooled” experience of EL Mem-<br />
AURELIO MARTÍNEZ ESTÉVEZ<br />
PRESIDENT <strong>OF</strong> “SOCIEDAD ESTATAL LOTERÍAS<br />
Y APUESTAS DEL ESTADO, S.A.”<br />
On March 11, <strong>2011</strong>, the Council of Ministers appointed<br />
Aurelio Martínez Estévez as President of<br />
the “Sociedad Estatal Loterías y Apuestas del Estado<br />
(SELAE)”, the company assuming the assets and the<br />
duties carried out until today by the state gaming<br />
operator, the public undertaking “Loterías y Apuestas<br />
del Estado”. Already in February, Mr. Martínez<br />
had been appointed as President - Managing Director<br />
of “Sistemas Técnicos de Loterías (STL)”, the preliminary<br />
stage to his nomination to the Presidency<br />
of SELAE.<br />
EL ACTIVITIES<br />
bers, and specifically addresses the types of games<br />
common to European Lottery organisations: e.g.<br />
• Internet gaming: games results are instantaneous;<br />
• Sports betting: prizes are won according to the result<br />
of sport, live betting, etc…;<br />
• Poker: online poker games;<br />
• Draw-based games;<br />
• Scratch cards.<br />
It is anticipated that the guideline will be completed<br />
and published towards the end of <strong>2011</strong> and will be<br />
available for Lottery Members to use to the benefit<br />
of their business.<br />
Thierry PUJOL<br />
Director of Security and Risk Management, La Française<br />
des Jeux<br />
& Chair of the EL Security and Risk Management Working<br />
Group<br />
Born in Zaragoza on April 7, 1947, Aurelio Martínez<br />
is Professor of Applied Economics and Doctor of<br />
Economic and Social Sciences at the University of<br />
Valencia.<br />
He was President of the Institute of Official Credit<br />
(ICO) until July 2009 and of the public institution Navantia<br />
(leader in the shipbuilding industry in Spain)<br />
before joining STL. Prior to ICO, he was Director at<br />
the International Economic Conditions Observatory<br />
(OCEI), Director of the Economic Structure Department<br />
of the University of Valencia and Director General<br />
for Economics and Financial Policy of the Generalitat<br />
Valenciana.<br />
He also held a number of positions within both the<br />
state and autonomous administration. In 1991, he<br />
was appointed Director of the Economics Department<br />
of the Office of the Presidency of the Government.<br />
He held this position until 1993 when he took<br />
up his new duties within the Department of Economics<br />
and Finance of the Generalitat Valenciana.<br />
He was also President of the Finance Institute of Valencia.<br />
He previously held several different positions<br />
in the banking sector, in particular those of Vice-President<br />
of the “Caixa d’Estalvis Provincial” of Valencia<br />
and Secretary General of the Valencian Federation of<br />
Savings Banks.<br />
Aurelio Martínez published and co-wrote thirty publications<br />
and over fifty articles about economic and<br />
financial issues, including:<br />
“Reflexiones en torno a la crisis económica de los años<br />
70”; “Dinámica exportadora del País Valenciano”;<br />
“Estructura industrial y generación de empleo en la<br />
economía murciana”; “Coyuntura y crisis económica:<br />
apuntes para su interpretación” and “Economía internacional.<br />
Diez años de crisis”.<br />
25 NEWS 37 <strong>SEPTEMBER</strong> <strong>2011</strong>