Mr Iván DIBÓS

PER
Entry in the IOC

1982

Born

18 January 1939

Education

Business Administration Studies at the University of Detroit and Dorsey Business School in Detroit (United States of America); additional studies in Lima Higher Institute of Business Administration (Peru) and at the Centre of Military Studies

Career

Companies Director; Board Member of industrial and commercial firms, and banks; Deputy Mayor (1978-1980, 1990-1992) then Mayor of Lima (1993-1995); Vice-President (1997-2001) then President (2002-2014) of Alliance française; Vice-President (2005-2010) then President (2011-) of the Touring and Automobile Club of Peru; Honorary Consul of Luxembourg and Monaco; President of the Peruvian Institute of Sport (with the rank of minister, 2003-2006)

Sports practised

Athletics, rowing, swimming, cycling

Sports career

Rowing: Peruvian champion Open Class (1957-1973); USA and Canadian champion in sculls and sweep oars (1957-1959); participated in South American and Pan-American Games (1959-1974); Masters Class champion in Argentina, USA and Peru (1974-2000)

Sports administration

President of the Peruvian Cycling Federation (1967-1968); Secretary of the Peruvian Rowing Federation (1971-1974) then treasurer (1980-1981); treasurer and member of the National Olympic Committee of Peru (1982-); Olympic Solidarity course director of Itinerant School for Sports Administrators; Council Member (1998-2009) then Vice-President (2009-) of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF); Vice-President of the Panathlon Club Lima (1999-2014); Chef de Mission at the Games of the Olympiad, Sydney 2000

Awards and distinctions

Sports Illustrated 'Pat on the Back' Trophy (1959); Municipality of Lima Order of Commanders Cross Year (1980); Order of Knight of South American Rowing (2001); Gold Medal of Youth and Sports of the French Government (2001); Merit of Distinguished Services in the rank of Grand Officer (Peru) (2004); Order of Honour and Merit awarded by South American Football Confederation; Officer of the Légion d'Honneur (France) (2011)

IOC History

IOC Member from 1982 to 2019; Honorary Member since 2020; Member of the following Commissions: Television (1983-1984), Study and Evaluation for the Preparation of the Olympic Games (1984-1986), Culture and Olympic Education (1988-2015), Women and Sport (2005-2015), Radio and Television (2005-2015), Culture and Olympic Heritage (2015-2020), Women in Sport (2015-); Public Affairs and Social Development through Sport (2018-2020)