LOCOG board

The London 2012 Organising Committee Board

Sebastian Coe - Chair
Sebastian Coe is Chair of LOCOG, having previously been Chairman of the London 2012 bid company.

Seb is a double Olympic Champion and 12-time world record holder in Athletics. He won gold in the 1500m and silver in the 800m at both the Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 Games. He retired from competitive athletics in 1990 and became a Conservative MP and Private Secretary to William Hague. In 2002 he was made a Peer – Lord Coe of Ranmore. He received a knighthood in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.

Seb is also a Vice President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Chairman of the Ethics Committee at FIFA, and a director and controlling shareholder of The Complete Leisure Group plc.

Sir Keith Mills - Deputy Chair
Sir Keith Mills is Deputy Chair of LOCOG. He became the International President and Chief Executive Officer of the London 2012 bid company in 2003, and was knighted in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.

Sir Keith founded Air Miles International Group BV in 1988 to develop the Air Miles programme. Until December 2007 he was also Chairman of Loyalty Management Group Ltd (the company which owns and manages the Nectar programme in the UK and licenses Air Miles programmes internationally). He is actively involved with charities including Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Cancerbackup.

His sporting interests include being Team Principal and shareholder of Teamorigin™, the British team that will take part in future America's Cup sailing events, and a member of the board of directors of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

HRH The Princess Royal
The Princess Royal is President of the British Olympic Association and a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1988.

The Princess is passionate about Equestrian sport. She won the individual European Eventing title in 1971 and was voted the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year. In 1976 she was a member of the British Eventing team at the Montreal Olympic Games.

She is President or Patron of around 230 organisations, including the Riding for the Disabled Association and the Royal Yachting Association.

Charles Allen CBE
Charles Allen is Chair of the LOCOG Nations and Regions Group, responsible for bringing about the UK-wide benefits of the Games. He was previously Vice Chairman of the London 2012 bid company.

His business career ranges from steel to hospitality. He is especially known for his contribution to the television industry, having played a key role in the development of ITV.

Charles chaired the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002. He is also Chairman of Global Radio UK Limited, a member of the board of directors of Tesco Plc, Chief Advisor to the Home Office and is a Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs.

Dr Muhammad Bari MBE
Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, MBE, FRSA has been the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain since June 2006. Dr Bari is an educationalist with a PhD and PGCE from King's College London and a Management degree from the Open University. He has worked as an Air Force Officer, Researcher in Physics, Science Teacher and SEN specialist in London. He is former President of Islamic Forum Europe and is Chair of the East London Mosque Trust that includes London Muslim Centre. He is a trustee of an international Muslim Charity (Muslim Aid), a patron of the National Youth Agency and Ramphal Centre.

Dr Bari runs parenting courses and occasionally writes in newspapers, journals and community publications. He has authored several books on family and parenting and issues of youth and identity. These include: 'Building Muslim Families', 'A Guide to Parenting', and 'Race, Religion and Muslim Identity in Britain'.

Michael Brace OBE
Michael Brace is Chairman of the British Paralympic Association. He also sat on the board for the London 2012 bid company.

He has represented Great Britain in Cross-Country Skiing. In 1998, Mike was the Chef de Mission for Team GB at the Winter Paralympic Games in Japan.

As well as setting up the Metro Sports Club for the Blind, Mike helped start a number of sports bodies for the disabled, including British Blind Sport and British Ski Club for the disabled. He is Chief Executive of VISION 2020 UK, a trustee of the Primary Club and a governor and member of the Board of the University of East London.

Simon Clegg CBE
Simon Clegg is the Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA) – a position he has held since 1997. He joined the BOA in 1989 after managing the British Biathlon senior and development teams.

Simon has managed British athletes at the last 11 Olympic and Olympic Winter Games, most recently as Team GB's Chef de Mission to the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games.

He was Chief Executive of the European Youth Olympic Organising Committee from 1993 to 1995, and sat on the board of the London 2012 bid company.

Sir Philip Craven MBE
Sir Philip Craven has been President of the International Paralympic Committee since 2001 and is also a member of the International Olympic Committee. In 2005 he received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

He is a five-time Paralympian in Wheelchair Basketball and Swimming, and was President of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation from 1988-2002.

In 2006 he received the Juan Antonio Samaranch Disabled Athlete Award, recognising all he has done for the world of sport. Philip is currently a Director of Culture North West, a Director of the BOA and Vice President of the Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association. He also sat on the board of the London 2012 bid company.

Paul Deighton - CEO
Paul Deighton is the Chief Executive Officer of the  London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). 

In this capacity, Paul is in charge of the day-to-day operations of LOCOG. He has a wide range of responsibilities which include establishing strong working relationships with stakeholders, the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Delivery Authority; overseeing recruitment and the annual budget; and providing leadership in the development of a variety of Olympic and Paralympic programmes, from sponsorship and marketing to ticketing and the Torch Relay.

Prior to joining London 2012,  Paul was the Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs in Europe, and a member of its European Management Committee. At Goldman Sachs he worked in a variety of management and client-facing roles for over 22 years, and was appointed a partner of the firm in 1996.

Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1983, Paul wored for both Security Pacific National Bank and Bank of America. He recieved a BA in economics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1978. Paul lives in central London with his wife Alison.

Jonathan Edwards CBE
Jonathan Edwards is LOCOG's athlete representative on the board. He is Chair of the Sports Advisory Group, having played an important part in the success of the London 2012 bid as an Official Ambassador, and a member of the Athletes Advisory Group.

Jonathan was Olympic Champion in Triple Jump at the Sydney 2000 Games. He set the current world record for the event in 1995, and was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Jonathan is still involved with athletics as a member of the European Athletics Council, in an ambassadorial role with the IAAF, and chaired the group charged with establishing an Athletes Panel for UK Athletics. He is a Council Member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, a director of the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative and a trustee and member of the Charity Committee of the Venture Partnership Foundation Ltd. He also presents on television for the BBC.

Jonathan is actively involved in a range of charities, in particular with AIDS orphans and an Outward Bound centre for groups of mixed abilities.

Stephen Lovegrove
Stephen Lovegrove is the Government’s representative on the board. He is the Chief Executive of the Shareholder Executive, which was formed in 2003 to provide oversight of and create value through the Government’s remaining businesses and stakes, including the Royal Mail, British Energy, British Waterways, Northern Rock, the Royal Mint, the Met Office, Channel 4 and over twenty others. The Shareholder Executive also provides corporate finance advice across Whitehall.

Previously, he spent ten years at Deutsche Bank, where he was the head of the European media team. During that time Stephen worked on a wide range of capital raisings, acquisitions and divestments in all the sectors of the media industry. Before that, he spent five years as a strategic consultant.

Stephen worked with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport on the London 2012 bid and the BBC Charter Review. He is a director of Partnerships UK Ltd.

Lord Moynihan
Lord Moynihan is the Chairman of the British Olympic Association. He is a member of the Audit Committee.

Lord Moynihan won a silver medal in Rowing at the Moscow 1980 Games. He was a Member of Parliament for ten years, where he served as Minister for Sport and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment from 1987 to 1990, and Minister for Energy from 1990 to 1992.

He is a Director of Rowan Drilling and Chairman of Pelamis Wave Power Ltd, as well as Honorary President of British Water Ski. He has been Vice Patron of the British Wind Energy Association and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs: Energy and Environment Programme Steering Committee. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee’s International Relations Commission, the 2009 IOC Olympic Congress Editorial Committee, and the IOC 2016 Olympic Candidate Acceptance Working Group.

Sir Craig Reedie CBE
Sir Craig Reedie retired as Chairman of the British Olympic Association in 2005, having played a key role in London's successful bid for the 2012 Games. He is a member of the LOCOG Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

Sir Craig is a director of the British Olympic Association and a member of the Executive Committee and Foundation Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency (1999). He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1994 and is a Board member of the Olympic Lottery Distributor.

He played Badminton at national and international level from 1962 to 1970, before taking senior positions in the Scottish Badminton Union and later the International Badminton Federation, eventually becoming President in 1981. He was a member and Deputy Chairman of UK Sport from 1996 till 2002.

David Ross
David is London Mayor Boris Johnson’s nominee on the LOCOG Board. He is also a Board Member of the Olympic Lottery Distributor.

In 1991, David co-founded and is currently Deputy Chairman of The Carphone Warehouse Group plc, Europe’s leading mobile communication retailer. He is currently Chairman of National Express Group plc and Cosalt plc and a Non-Executive Director of Big Yellow Group plc.

Until 2007, he was on the board of the Wembley Stadium Ltd and Trinity Mirror Group plc. In the past David has also been a Board Member of Sport England (until 2005) and a Member of the Home Office Audit Committee (until 2007) as well as an Advisory Member of Lord Carter’s Review of Legal Aid Procurement (until 2006).

Martin Stewart
Martin became a member of LOCOG's Board of Directors in November 2006. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee.

He spent six years at BSkyB plc as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the board , and then spent two years at EMI plc in the same roles.

Sir Robin Wales
Robin is the directly elected Executive Mayor of the London Borough of Newham, one of just twelve nationally. Prior to his first election in 2002, he had served as Leader of Newham Council since 1995.

He was Chair of the Association of London Government (now London Councils) from 2000 – 2006 and is involved in local government nationally via the Local Government Association, where he is vice chair of the Culture and Tourism Board. He was awarded a Knighthood in the Birthday Honours’ List 2000 in recognition of his service to local government.

Robin comes from Kilmarnock and has a BSc in chemistry from Glasgow University. He has two children, and before becoming Mayor was employed by British Telecom, where he was responsible for developing credit and fraud management systems.

Robin serves as Chair of LOCOG’s Remuneration Committee.

Neil Wood MBE
Neil Wood is the Chief Financial Officer of LOCOG.

He is a partner in the accountancy and consulting firm Deloitte and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Neil was awarded an MBE in the 2006 New Year's Honours list for his services to the London 2012 bid.