FEI President and IOC member Ingmar De Vos (BEL) has been re-elected on the Council of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF). The election took place on 31 May on the occasion of the 47th ASOIF General Assembly held in Lausanne (SUI), and was opened with a speech by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach who congratulated ASOIF on their achievements and the indispensable role of International Federations delivering and modernising the Olympic Games. Other items on the agenda included decisions on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games International Federation revenue share scheme, ASOIF Statute amendments and membership admissions.
This is President De Vos’ second term as ASOIF Council member. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) Governance Taskforce, and was first elected to the ASOIF Council in 2019 for a four-year term, which ended this year. The second term runs from 2023 to 2027. The ASOIF Council is composed of eight individual members – all leaders of Summer Olympic International Federations (IFs), and the ASOIF Executive Director (ex officio without voting rights) – see here for more information.
Ingmar De Vos was elected FEI President in 2014, re-elected for a second term in 2018 and re-elected for a third and final term in 2022. He was elected as a Member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in September 2017 and is a member of the following IOC Commissions: Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad Los Angeles 2028 (2019 – ); Legal Affairs (2018 – ); and Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (2019 – ). In addition, he is SportAccord Executive Committee member, ASOIF representative on the WADA Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Belgium Olympic Committee.