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lawyer (1973); doctorate (1977)
Work experience:
• Independent lawyer at the Neuchâtel Bar;
• President of the Bar in the Canton of Neuchâtel (1990-1993);
• Judge at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS);
• Legal consultant;
• Director of the International Center for Sports Studies (CIES); and
• Professor at the University of Neuchâtel
Criminal issues: None reported
Charity: None Reported
“Olympic Values”: After 2012 London ticket scandal said publicly that those selling tickets on the
black market “These people should no longer belong to the Olympic movement.”
“If I remember there has been - I cannot say at every Olympics, but probably at every Olympics - such
cases in the past...I don't know why these people still accept this kind of wrongdoing. It is always the
poorest countries who are affected...If you have one or two cases from 204 NOCs you could say 'I
understand it may happen'. But I am surprised so many were involved...It indicates the problem is more
severe than we would think...The IOC itself was not implicated. That's a good thing in a way.”
“We will ask for the documents and the tapes, whatever is existing from The Sunday Times. If this is
confirmed then sanctions must be taken...For me [banning them from distributing tickets in the future]
would not be enough. These people should no longer belong to the Olympic movement...But,
depending on the result of the inquiry, there could be a sanction that people are no longer accepted in
the Olympic movement and therefore they should have no link with sport in their own country.”
He also said, “If you know you are breaking the rules and still do it, it is unacceptable...It is an attitude
which is not acceptable and which is why I am sure the IOC want to take this very seriously and take
appropriate sanctions.” He believes the scandal will force the IOC to overhaul their ticket distribution
system before Rio 2016.
Is currently on a short list of candidates to take over the presidency of the IOC in 2013. Others include
IOC vice-president Thomas Bach of Germany, and executive board members Richard Carrion of Puerto
Rico, and Rene Fasel of Switzerland. At the IOC Executive Board (EB) meeting in 2011 in Lausanne
one of a broad range of decisions that was made included augmented text for the Directions Concerning
the Election of the IOC President. The original guide was drafted in March 2001, and would be
updated and modernized to better reflect the realities of the present day.
Awards:
• Winner of the Swiss sports merit prize for teams (1968);
• French Sports Academy Prize (2003)
• Doctor honoris causa in law, De Montfort University, Leicester (GBR) (2011)
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