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) a director and controlling shareholder of The Complete Leisure Group plc, and a member of the Advisory Board of Carlton Partners.  He is a non-executive member of the board of directors of England 2018 Ltd., the England World Cup bid committee, and for the duration has taken a leave of absence from his role as Chair of the FIFA Ethics Committee.


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. Sir Keith is also a director of England 2018 Ltd, the 2018 England World Cup bid committee.

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 the 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 Chairman of Global Radio UK Limited, Chairman of EMI, and a member of the boards of directors of Tesco Plc, Virgin Media and Endemol. He is also Chief Advisor to the Home Office and is a Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs.

Dr Muhammad Bari MBE
Muhammad Abdul Bari has been the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain since June 2006. Prior to that, he served as the Council's Deputy-Secretary General for four years. A physicist and educationalist by training, Dr Bari received his doctorate and qualified as a teacher from King's College London, and gained a Management Degree from the Open University.

Dr Bari began his research studies in England after training as an Air Force officer in Bangladesh. Since qualifying, Dr Bari has been a researcher in Physics, a science teacher and today is a Special Needs specialist in London. For the last three decades Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari has served the community in various capacities. He is currently the Chair of the East London Mosque & London Muslim Centre, London's oldest Islamic centre of worship.

In addition, Dr Bari is a patron of the National Youth Agency and the Ramphal Centre, serves on the Good Childhood Inquiry Panel which was set up by the Children's Society in 2006 and is a trustee of Muslim Aid, an international Muslim charity. He was also a former president of the Islamic Forum of Europe, a Muslim social organisation. Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari has written for newspapers, journals and community publications and is the author of 'Building Muslim Families', 'A Guide to Parenting', and 'Race, Religion and Muslim Identity in Britain'.
In recognition for his services to the community, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari was conferred an MBE in 2003, was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005 and an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London in July 2008.

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 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 worked for both Security Pacific National Bank and Bank of America. He received 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.


Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt is the Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA). Before joining the BOA he pursued a career within Sales & Marketing across a number of industries and companies including ICI Paints before going on to build a successful Customer Relationship Management Consulting business in the 1990s. He subsequently sold this to a US consulting company Extraprise in 2000.

In 2002, Andrew joined the board of Business Process Outsourcing specialist Vertex, a £420m revenue and 9,000 employees (2007) business which was a subsidiary of United Utilities. He went on to lead the Financial Services & Private Sector businesses (£200m revenue). Vertex was sold to Oak Hill Capital in 2007. Andrew was most recently the Managing Director of Reliance Security Services a £240m, 10,000 employee Security Services Specialist.

Andrew is passionate about sport and is a keen sailor, an RYA Offshore Yachtmaster and Member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC).


Justin King
Justin King is the Mayor’s appointee to the Board, and is also a member of the Audit Committee. He has been Chief Executive of Sainsbury's since March 2004. Before joining Sainsbury's, he was Director of Food at Marks & Spencer and prior to that held senior positions at ASDA/Wal-Mart and was Managing Director of Haagen-Dazs UK. His early career was at Mars Confectionery and Pepsi International.

Justin is President of the IGD, a member of the CBI President's Committee and is a patron of Skillsmart Retail, the national sector skills council for retail. He also sits on the Board of Bath University Management School and is a non-executive director of Staples Inc.


Stephen Lovegrove
Stephen Lovegrove is the Government’s appointee to  the Board, and is also a member of the Audit Committee. 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.


Tim Reddish OBE
Tim Reddish is the Chairman of the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and is the BPA’s appointee to the board. He is also Chairman of the British Paralympic Performance Services Board (BPPS Ltd).

Tim is a three-time Paralympian in Swimming and was honoured by his home town, Nottingham, in 2005 when he was given the Freedom of the City for services to disability sport.

Tim is the National Performance Director for British Disability Swimming and has been responsible for leading the British team to success during the last two Paralympic Games.


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.


Martin Stewart
Martin is Director General of Cableuropa, SAU, the Spanish telecommunications company. He 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 directly elected Mayors nationally. He had served as the Leader of Newham Council from 1995 up until his first Mayoral election in 2002.

He was the chair of the Association of London Government (now London Councils) from 2000-2006 and is currently the Vice Chair of the Culture, Tourism and Sport Board for the Local Government Association. He was awarded a Knighthood in the Birthday Honours' List 2000 in recognition of his service to local government.

Robin is originally from Kilmarnock and has BSc in Chemistry from Glasgow University. He has two children and prior to being elected Mayor in 2002, Robin was employed by British Telecom, where he was responsible for developing credit and fraud management systems.

Robin serves as the 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.