Gunilla Lindberg

Gunilla Lindberg’s work in sports administration started with a lesser desk job at the Swedish Olympic Committee in 1969, but her talent was obvious, and she rose to become assistant secretary-general in 1984, and then secretary-general in 1989. She was Swedish administrative chief at every Olympic Games from 1972-80, and in 1976 was made a board member of the Swedish Bob and Luge Federation, serving for three years.

Lindberg became a board member of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in 1993, and a member of the executive board of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) from 1995-2002. She then served as ANOC secretary-general starting in 2004.

Lindberg was co-opted onto the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1996. Her roles within the IOC since have been myriad. She has been a member of the IOC Executive Board from 2000-04 and 2011-19. She was IOC Vice-President 2004-08, serving as 1st Vice-President in 2006-08. She chaired the Evaluation Commission in 2011 and was chair of the Coordination Commission for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 from 2011-18.

She has also served on the following IOC Commissions during her tenure on the Committee: Women and Sport (1996-2000), Press (1997-2015), Olympic Programme (1998-), Evaluation for the XX Olympic Winter Games in 2006 (1998-1999), Coordination for the XX Olympic Winter Games Turin 2006 (2000-06), IOC 2000 (1999), IOC 2000 Reform Follow-up (2002), Coordination for the XXI Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 (2003-10), Coordination for the Games of the XXX Olympiad London 2012 (2005-12), Olympic Solidarity (2005-), Coordination for the XXII Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 (2007-14), Coordination for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad Rio 2016 (2010-16), Evaluation for the Games of XXXIII Olympiad in 2024 (2016-17), Coordination for the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad Paris 2024 (2017-), Evaluation for the Youth Olympic Games 2022 (2018), Coordination for the Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 (2018-), Coordination for the 4th Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 (2020-), Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games (2019-), and the Remuneration Working Group (2005).