Mrs Dagmawit Girmay BERHANE

Education

Master of Arts (M.A. degree) in Planning and Management, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (2003-); Executive Masters in Management of Sport Organisation (MEMOS VI), Lausanne, Switzerland (2003-4); Bachelor of Science in Business, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (1997-2000); Diploma in Accounting, Addis Ababa University Commercial College, Ethiopia (1993-95)

Career

An advocate of Health and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in developing countries

Sports Practised

Athletics; Basketball; Taekwondo

Sports administration

Vice-President of the Ethiopian Martial Art Federation (1998-2000); General Secretary of Ethiopian Sport For all Committee (1999-2002); First Vice-President (2000-2004), President (2004-2008), General Secretary (2009-2013) and then Board Member (2013-) of the Ethiopian National Olympic Committee; Vice-President, Technical and Logistic Chair of the African Badminton Confederation (2002-2006); President of the Ethiopian Badminton Federation (2000-2016); Council Member of the Badminton Confederation Africa (BCA) (2009-2018); President of the Badminton Confederation of Africa (2011-2013); Vice-President of Badminton World Federation (BWF) (2013-2018); Member of the Women and Sport Commission of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) (2006-2017); Executive Board Member of ANOCA (2009-2013); Executive Council Member of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) (2009-2016); Member of the Finance and Audit Commission of ANOC (2016-2018); Chair of Finance and Audit Commission of Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) (2019-); Executive Council Member of ANOC (2019-); member of WADA Foundation Board (2022 - )

IOC History

Member of the following Commissions: Coordination for the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014 (2010-2014), Women and Sport (2010-2015), Nominations (2014-2015), IOC Members Election (2015-), Women in Sport (2015-2020), Finance (2015-), Coordination for the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad Paris 2024 (2017-); Audit committee (2021 - ); Coordination for the Games of the XXXV Olympiad Brisbane 2032 (2021-), member of the IOC Advisory Committee on Human Rights (2022 - )