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Mr Mario Pescante: Italy<br />
2011/12 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index Italy’s ranking: 61 out of 179 countries<br />
2011 <strong>Transparency</strong> International Corruption Perception Index Italy’s ranking: 69 out of 182<br />
countries<br />
IOC Membership: 1994- present<br />
Member of Executive Board (2006-2009) <strong>and</strong> was one of four of the IOC’s Vice-Presidents until he<br />
resigned this position in April 2012 (2009-2012).<br />
Member of the following Commissions:<br />
• Olympic Programme (1992-1993)<br />
• Marketing (1995-2001)<br />
• Women <strong>and</strong> Sport (1996-2001)<br />
• Coordination for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens in 2004 (1998-2004)<br />
• “IOC 2000” (1999)<br />
• Olympic Solidarity (2002-2006)<br />
• International Relations (2002-2007)<br />
• Chairman of the International Relations Commission (2007-)<br />
• IOC Permanent Observer at the United Nations (2010-)<br />
Olympic sporting background: none<br />
Sports administration background:<br />
• President of the Sports University Centre of Rome (1959)<br />
• Manager <strong>and</strong> Technical Assistant, Sports Department of the Italian Track <strong>and</strong> Field Federation<br />
• Founder of the “Bruno Zauli Memorial”, an international track <strong>and</strong> field meeting (1964)<br />
• Attaché to the Italian Olympic Team in Mexico City in 1968<br />
• Chef de Mission of the Italian team at the Mediterranean Games in Algiers in 1975, Spalato in<br />
1979, Casablanca in 1983, Damascus in 1987, Athens in 1991<br />
• Chef de Mission of the Italian Olympic Team at the Games of the Olympiad in Montreal in<br />
1976, Moscow in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984, Seoul in 1988 <strong>and</strong> at the Olympic Winter Games<br />
in Innsbruck in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, Sarajevo in 1984, Calgary in 1988<br />
• Secretary General of the CONI (Italian Olympic Committee) (1973-1993) then President (1993-<br />
1998)<br />
• Secretary General of the European Olympic Committees (EOC, former Association of the<br />
European National Olympic Committees) (1989-2001), then President (2001-2006)<br />
• President of the EOC European Union Commission<br />
• Member of the Executive Board of the Association of the National Olympic Committees<br />
(ANOC)<br />
• Vice-President of ANOC (2001-2006)<br />
• Member of the Technical <strong>and</strong> Financial Commissions of the ANOC<br />
• Member of the Executive of the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games<br />
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