Structure

Kady Kanouté Tounkara is an Olympian who competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a co-captain of the Mali women’s basketball team. Kady is a Master Trainer and Steering Committee member of the International Olympic Committee’s Career+ Program and the International Red Cross Career Development Program for persons with physical disabilities. She has facilitated workshops in over 50 countries and has recently been appointed as Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency Education Committee.

Kelsey Erickson joined USA Cycling as the SafeSport Director in May 2019. Prior to her appointment at USA Cycling, she spent nearly a decade of work in international anti-doping. Kelsey led and supported multiple global anti-doping research projects, receiving funding from such organisations as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Athletics Foundation (IAF).

YaYa Yamamoto is a senior manager for Japan Anti-Doping Agency’s (JADA’s) Tokyo 2020 legacy project team, PLAY TRUE 2020, Sport for Tomorrow. After working in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Standards & Harmonisation department, YaYa developed a values-based and anti-doping rules education program in Japan. She is also a member of the WADA Education Committee and Working Group for the International Standard for Education.

Toby Atkins is an ex professional cyclist with first hand experience of whistleblowing in sport. Ever since stepping away from elite sport, he has been passionate about educating athletes around the world about whistleblowing and the responsibility they have to uphold the values of sport. Over the years he has worked with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Biathlon Union (IBU) and now with the ITA, with a focus on athlete education and the development of educational structures that will allow athletes to compete in a safe and fair environment.

Daniel Ashworth is the Deputy Head of Testing for UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and has worked at UKAD for 5 years. He is currently responsible for overseeing the implementation of UKADs Test Distribution Plans (TDPs) and whereabouts programmes, having previously delivered the TDP for UKADs National Registered Testing Pool (NRTP). The Tokyo 2020 Expert Group is the second he has been part of, following the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang.

Steve Northey has a strong passion in anti-doping spanning more than 20 years. He is currently the Assistant Director Sport Operations at Sport Integrity Australia, primarily responsible for leading a team in the design, management and implementation of the Test Distribution Plan. Other previous experience in anti-doping field includes working at the Sydney Olympics, Anti-Doping command centre operations at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Steve was also a member of the pre-Games Taskforce for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Matthew Fedoruk currently works as the Chief Science Officer at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). With more than 10 years of experience in anti-doping and a Ph.D. in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, he also serves as the Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Strategic Testing (TDSSA) Expert Working Group and on the ITA Tokyo 2020 Pre-Games Expert Group. He is the current co-Chair of the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) Scientific Advisory Board and the WADA Science Grant Program Review Panel member for 2020.

Keiko Uchitani is the general manager of the testing department at the Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA) and a graduate of the University of Oregon, USA. She has acquired invaluable professional experience outside of anti-doping. Before joining JADA she spent more than 10 years in the IT trading industry as a marketing and sales manager and seven years as a business consultant. At the latter she built and supported corporate strategies, business planning and cooperate vision creation. In 2014, she joined JADA as the head of the Education and International Relations Division where she has managed numerous successful projects at the agency.

Rym Zerifi joined the Africa Zone I Regional Anti-Doping Organisation (RADO) from its inception in 2008, and now holds the position of Executive Manager, with the mission of contributing to the promotion of clean sport and the coordination of the fight against doping in the North African region. She has previously worked for several years in a laboratory, as well as at the Tunisian National Anti-Doping Agency, and has been involved in various ways in the fight against doping in Africa since 2001.

Xavier Bigard is a sports physician, a researcher in exercise physiology, muscle biology and sports nutrition. He is currently Medical Director of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and previously scientific Advisor of the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) and former president of the French Society of Sports Medicine (SFMES).

Leslie Buchanan was the Anti-doping Director for World Triathlon before recently becoming an Executive Board member. Under her leadership, triathlon was one of the first federations to introduce the Athlete Biological Passport program. With over 20 years of anti-doping experience, this Canadian was also the co-technical delegate for the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympic Games and the co-race referee at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Stuart Miller is the Senior Executive Director for Integrity & Development at the International Tennis Federation (ITF). In addition to his other ITF integrity-related responsibilities for the Rules of Tennis, Technical (equipment), Science & Medicine, Safeguarding, Constitution and representative duties to the International Tennis Integrity Agency, Stuart manages the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme on behalf of all professional tennis. He is a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency Strategic Testing Expert Group and represents the ITF on the ASOIF (Association of Summer Olympic International Federations) Medical & Scientific Consultative Group.

Dr. Margo Mountjoy is the Dean of the Medical School of McMaster University (WRC Canada) and is a sport medicine consultant at the University of Guelph’s Health and Performance Centre. Margo is a former international level artistic swimmer and is now a member of the FINA Bureau. She is also the Chair of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) Medical and Scientific Group and is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission Games Group.

Alexis Weber joined FIFA in 2014 as coordinator in the Medicine & Science Department and since 2016 has been leading the FIFA Anti-Doping Unit. In this capacity, he is responsible for the successful implementation of FIFA’s Anti-Doping Testing together with education programmes and research activities.
Since 2017 he is a member of the ASOIF (Association of Summer Olympic International Federations) Medical & Science Consultative Group.

Christine Cardis coordinates and administers the Anti-Doping Program of the International Skating Union (ISU). Since starting her career in anti-doping at the Laboratoire Suisse d’Analyse du Dopage, LAD, in Lausanne in 1990, Christine Cardis has held various positions such as Analytical Chemist or Laboratory Team leader for the UCI Blood Testing Mission. In 2000, she joined the Expert Laboratory Team for the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games and has officiated as a member of the WADA Independent Observer Team at the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2006.

Jason Francis is currently the Manager, Mission Operations with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) and oversees the daily monitoring and implementation of the CCES’ Test Distribution Plan and Risk Assessment processes. Since joining the CCES in 2008, Jason has worked in the areas of testing and intelligence and investigations.

Greg McKenna is an investigations professional with over 26 years’ experience leading teams in complex international crime operations. In 2020, Greg was appointed as the Head of the newly formed, Biathlon Integrity Unit. He is now using his experience to build an effective team in support Biathlon and the wider sporting community.

Jakob Mørkeberg is Senior Science Manager at Anti Doping Denmark (ADD) and chairs their research committee. He is responsible for developing ADD’s Risk Assessment and Test Distribution Plan as well as running the organization’s Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) program. Jakob sits on WADA’s Blood Expert Group and Dried Blood Spots Working Group and was member of the Independent Observer team in Rio 2016. He was also part of the Pre-Games Taskforces for Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018. Before joining ADD, Jakob conducted anti-doping research related to the detection of EPO and blood transfusions. Jakob holds a B.Sc. in Sport Science, a M.Sc. in Human Physiology and a Ph.D. in Medicine.

Adriaan Wijckmans is Legal Counsel of the International Ice Hockey Federation. He holds a master’s degree in International Sports Law from the ISDE – Higher Institute of Law and Economics in Madrid and graduated from the University of Brussels in European and International Law. Next to publishing in the field of Sports Law his experience includes complex issues in the anti-doping field and integrity matters.

Minjung Seo currently works as the director of the testing department at the Korea Anti-Doping Agency (KADA). She has 10 years of experience in the anti-doping community. As a head of the doping control team at the PyeongChang 2018 Organizing Committee, she managed the doping control program operation. After the Games, she joined and worked at International Testing Agency(ITA) as a major event manager for 2 years. She is currently responsible for overseeing KADA’s Test Distribution Plans, developing the testing strategies and managing sample collection personnel.

Yuhan Tan is a two-time Olympian in Badminton and a medical doctor in the field of orthopedic surgery. He is the current chair of the Belgian NOC Athletes Commission and member of the WADA Athlete Committee.

Kevin Bean is currently the Senior Manager, Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP) with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) and oversees the implementation of the CADP, Canada’s World Anti-Doping Code compliant anti-doping program. Since joining the CCES in 2006, Kevin has worked in an number of areas, including Testing, Results Management and training of Sample Collection Personnel.

Naila Maharramova has held a position as Doping Control Manager at Azerbaijan National Anti-doping Agency since beginning of 2020. Her duties include working closely with doping control and the training of DCOs, as well as coordinating various projects, e.g. collaboration with “Volunteers Union” related to management and involvement of volunteers in anti-doping.
She started her career as a Doping Control Officer and was taking part both in national and international sporting events, such as World Championships, World Cups, Grand-Prix, Major Events etc.

Wen Hongtao has more than 10 years working experience in Doping Control Officer (DCO) management in his position as Deputy Director of the testing department of the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) and 4 years experience in Test Distribution Planning (TDP) from 2015 to 2019. Wen has conducted several DCO training sessions for CHINADA. Wen also has major event experience, he has worked at the Doping Control Command Center for the Rio 2016 Paralympics and all major events held in China from 2009, and has been in charge of the DCO management for all domestic competitions from 2009 on. He also participated in the Olympic Council of Asia Medical Committee international DCO Program for theGuangzhou and Incheon Asian Games.

Deslyn Pather is the Senior Doping Control Coordinator at the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS). She has close to 10 years of experience in sports management and anti-doping. Her experience includes implementing a national test distribution plan, conducting training sessions for sample collection personnel across African countries and induction training on the anti-doping responsibilities of elite athletes in the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) program. Deslyn’s administrative skills have seen her manage and administer the doping control services at numerous international sports events in South Africa. She was a key member of the doping control administration at the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

As the National Training Coordinator at Sport Integrity Australia (SIA), Adele Weekes oversees the training and accreditation of over 200 Sport Integrity Australia Sample Collection Personnel. She developed the Sample Collection Manual for the new agency and has been a driving force in using technology to provide additional support tools for our Field Staff, including online exams and regular virtual meetings. Her role assists with the delivery of a compliant and effective Sample Collection Process.

Adam Sutcliffe has been involved with UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) since 2010, when he joined the Doping Control Scheme as a Chaperone. This role gave him experience at numerous sporting events and an insight into the world of Anti-Doping. In 2015 he moved into the head office, joining UKAD’s Testing team. He currently heads up the Logistics and Allocations team. Adam is responsible for the ongoing development of UKAD’s Doping Control Personnel, including recruitment, training and reaccreditation.

Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Sport Science and a Master of Business Administration in Sport Management Stefan Klos is responsible for the department of testing coordinators at the German Anti-Doping service provider PWC GmbH. Besides organizing, coordinating and supporting missions all over the world for various IFs or NADOS in different sports and disciplines he conducts OOC and IC controls himself on a regular basis. He took part at several Major Events leading the Doping Control Command Center e.g. at the IAAF World Championships 2017, Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games 2017 or IAAF World Indoor Championships 2018. In addition, Stefan Klos supports the DCO Network HR department as a trainer and conducts accreditations of new DCOs regularly.

Darius Kaziukenas is the Vice President of Global Network at IDTM/DFSI located in Stockholm, Sweden. In the past years Darius has been focusing on the reorganisation of the IDTM DCO network, increasing education and training, introducing quality assurance measures, establishing IT solutions to ensure that the sample collection is conducted in more efficient and secure way.

Per Inge Rustad has a MSc in Exercise Physiology supplemented with a one-year program in Sports Pedagogy, Didactic and Physical Education. He has worked at Anti-Doping Norway since 2015. Per Inge manages the Norwegian testing program in several sports, and he is the quality manager for the department of Testing, Investigation and Legal. He is also responsible for the education program for the Norwegian DCOs. Per Inge has lectured in Human Physiology at Oslo Metropolitan University’s bachelor degree in physiotherapy for several years, and he is now working part-time as a physiologist at the Department of Pediatric Cardiology at Oslo University Hospital.

Karine Henrie is currently in the role of Senior Manager in the Standards and Harmonization team at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). She joined WADA in June 2017 and so far, has dedicated close to 15 years of her career to protecting the integrity of sport and the right of every athlete to compete on a level playing field. Karine has participated in two WADA Independent Observer teams, as a member of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games (in PyeongChang) and as the Vice-Chair of the 2018 Asian Games (in Jakarta/Palembang, Indonesia). She is currently actively involved in WADA’s Code compliance work, in particular the audit program, with 10 audits conducted so far in collaboration with various International Federations and National Anti-Doping Organisations. Prior to joining WADA, Karine worked at the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) and holds a Master’s degree in Sport Sociology from the University of Ottawa.