Mr Mario VÁZQUEZ RAÑA

Education

Degree in business administration

Career

President of the Board of Directors of the Hermanos Vazquez Company (1960-1980); President and Director General of the Organizacion Editorial Mexicana (1975-), “Cartones Ponderosa” (2001-) and United Press International (1986-1988)

Sports practised

Shooting

Sports career

Participation in shooting competitions at national and international level (1960)

Sports administration

President of the Mexican Shooting Federation (1969-1974); President of the American Shooting Confederation (1973-1979); Vice-President of the Mexican Sports Confederation (1973-1976); member of the NOC (1972-) then President (1974-2001); President of the Pan-American Games Organisation Committee (1975); President of the Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) (1975-); Chairman of the International Olympic Solidarity Commission for the American Continent (1975-); President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) (1979-)

Awards and distinctions

Named Grand Officer of the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero by the Panamanian Vice-President, Juan Carlos Varela (2010)

IOC History

Member of the Executive Board as representative of NOCs (2000-); Vice-Chairman of the Olympic Solidarity Commission (1979-1996), Deputy Chairman (1997-2001) then Chairman (2002-); President of the Organizing Committee of the 114e IOC Session in Mexico City (2002); member of the following Commissions: Olympic Movement (1990-1999), Preparation of the XII Olympic Congress (1990-1994), Apartheid and Olympism (1990-1992), “IOC 2000” (Executive Committee, 1999), Marketing (2000), IOC 2000 Reform Follow-up (2002); 2009 Congress (2009-2010)