IOC Session re-elects HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein to Executive Board

IOC Session re-elects HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein to Executive Board

Mumbai, India, October 16, 2023: The 141st IOC Session today (Monday) elected two members to the Executive Board.

 

HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein (Jordan) was re-elected to the IOC EB for a second four-year term. Prince Feisal was originally elected to the Executive Board in 2019.

 

Meanwhile, Ms Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe), who previously served on the Executive Board from 2018 to 2021 in her capacity as Chair of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, was elected for a four-year term.

 

On the same occasion, and following a vote, seven IOC Members coming to the end of their eight-year term, following their election or re-election in 2015, were re-elected for another eight years, with the age limit being taken into consideration for the end of their terms (80 years for those elected before December 1999 and 70 years for those elected after that date).

 

The Members were Mrs Nawal El Moutawakel (Morocco, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1962, elected in 1998), HSH the Sovereign Prince Albert II (Monaco, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1958, elected in 1985), and HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1955, elected in 1998). All were elected for another eight-year term.

 

Meanwhile, taking age limits into consideration, Mr Valeriy Borzov (Ukraine, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1949, elected in 1994) was re-elected to serve until the end of 2029; Mrs Gunilla Lindberg (Sweden, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1947, elected in 1996) was re-elected to serve until the end of 2027; Syed Shahid Ali (Pakistan, Independent Individual, year of birth: 1946, elected in 1996) was re-elected to serve until the end of 2026; and Mr Nenad Lalović (Serbia, membership linked to his function as President of United World Wrestling (UWW), year of birth: 1958, elected in 2015) was elected to serve until the end of 2028.