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Richard Pound is the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and a member of the International Olympic Committee.
As head of WADA, he has overseen a strengthening of the anti-doping movement and has been at the forefront in expanding the work of WADA beyond the Olympic movement.
Prior to his career within sports administration, Pound represented Canada as a swimmer at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1962 Commonwealth Games where he won a number of medals.
Retiring from swimming, he accepted a role with the Canadian Olympic Committee and eventually became its president. In 1978, he was elected to the International Olympic Committee and put in charge of negotiating television and sponsorship deals. Pound revolutionized the Olympic movement using such deals to transform the IOC into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
He is an outspoken critic of corruption within the IOC, and was appointed head of the inquiry into the scandals surrounding the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1993 was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
Pound has also served as Chancellor of McGill University since July 1999 and is a partner in the law firm of Stikeman Elliott LLP in Montreal, where he practises tax law.
In 2005, Pound was included in Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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