Richard Pound O.C., O.Q., Q.C., F.C.A. (Canada)
Richard Pound is best known as a long-time Executive Board member and Vice President of the International Olympic Committee where he was responsible for all Olympic television negotiations, marketing and sponsorships, up to and including the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and as Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which was created in 1999 to eradicate improper drug use in sports. As part of his International Olympic Committee career, Mr. Pound was also the Chairman of the IOC's Co-ordination Commission for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, and Director and Member of the Executive Committee of the Organizing Committee for the XVth Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988. Currently he is Chairman of the Olympic Games Study Commission and Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

As an athlete, Mr. Pound was a double Olympic swimming finalist at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, and won four medals at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Australia. He won several Canadian national swimming titles from 1958 to 1962, supporting his membership to the Canadian Swimming Hall of Fame and the Canadian Amateur Athletic Hall of Fame. He will be inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale.