The president of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is the individual who is in charge of leading the Organizing Committee for each Olympic Games. During the opening and closing ceremonies, the president does a speech before the IOC president.
Lists of presidents
Summer Olympic Games
| President | Game | Host city | Host country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Constantine of Greece | I | Athens | Kingdom of Greece | 1896 |
| Pierre de Coubertin | II | Paris | France | 1900 |
| David R. Francis | III | St. Louis | United States | 1904 |
| William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough | IV | London | United Kingdom | 1908 |
| Sigfrid Edström | V | Stockholm | Sweden | 1912 |
| Henri de Baillet-Latour | VII | Antwerp | Belgium | 1920 |
| Pierre de Coubertin | VIII | Paris | France | 1924 |
| Solko van den Bergh | IX | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1928 |
| George Bryant | X | Los Angeles | United States | 1932 |
| Joseph Goebbels Karl Ritter von Halt | XI | Berlin | Nazi Germany | 1936 |
| Lord Burghley | XIV | London | United Kingdom | 1948 |
| Erik von Frenckell | XV | Helsinki | Finland | 1952 |
| Wilfrid Kent Hughes | XVI | Melbourne | Australia | 1956 |
| Giulio Andreotti | XVII | Rome | Italy | 1960 |
| Juichi Tsushima Daigoro Yasukawa | XVIII | Tokyo | Japan | 1964 |
| Pedro Ramírez Vázquez | XIX | Mexico City | Mexico | 1968 |
| Willi Daume | XX | Munich | West Germany | 1972 |
| Roger Rousseau | XXI | Montreal | Canada | 1976 |
| Ignati Novikov | XXII | Moscow | Soviet Union | 1980 |
| Peter Ueberroth | XXIII | Los Angeles | United States | 1984 |
| Kim Yong-shik Roh Tae-woo Park Seh-jik | XXIV | Seoul | South Korea | 1988 |
| Pasqual Maragall | XXV | Barcelona | Spain | 1992 |
| Billy Payne | XXVI | Atlanta | United States | 1996 |
| Gary Pemberton John Iliffe Michael Knight | XXVII | Sydney | Australia | 2000 |
| Efstratios Stratigis Panayiotis Thomopoulos Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | XXVIII | Athens | Greece | 2004 |
| Liu Qi | XXIX | Beijing | China | 2008 |
| Lord Sebastian Coe | XXX | London | United Kingdom | 2012 |
| Carlos Arthur Nuzman | XXXI | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 2016 |
| Yoshirō Mori Seiko Hashimoto | XXXII | Tokyo | Japan | 2021 |
| Tony Estanguet | XXXIII | Paris | France | 2024 |
| Casey Wasserman | XXXIV | Los Angeles | United States | 2028 |
| Andrew Liveris | XXXV | Brisbane | Australia | 2032 |
Winter Olympic Games
| President | Game | Host city | Host country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre de Coubertin | I | Chamonix | France | 1924 |
| Edmund Schulthess | II | St Moritz | Switzerland | 1928 |
| Godfrey Dewey | III | Lake Placid | United States | 1932 |
| Joseph Goebbels Karl Ritter von Halt | IV | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Nazi Germany | 1936 |
| Alfred Schläppi Heinrich Schläppi | V | St. Moritz | Switzerland | 1948 |
| Haakon VII of Norway Princess Astrid of Norway Olaf Helset | VI | Oslo | Norway | 1952 |
| Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel | VII | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | 1956 |
| Prentis Cobb Hale | VIII | Squaw Valley | United States | 1960 |
| Bruno Kreisky | IX | Innsbruck | Austria | 1964 |
| Albert Michallon | X | Grenoble | France | 1968 |
| Kōgorō Uemura | XI | Sapporo | Japan | 1972 |
| Bruno Kreisky | XII | Innsbruck | Austria | 1976 |
| Ron MacKenzie Rev. J. Bernard Fell | XIII | Lake Placid | United States | 1980 |
| Branko Mikulić | XIV | Sarajevo | Yugoslavia | 1984 |
| Frank King | XV | Calgary | Canada | 1988 |
| Jean-Claude Killy Michel Barnier | XVI | Albertville | France | 1992 |
| Gerhard Heiberg | XVII | Lillehammer | Norway | 1994 |
| Eishiro Saito | XVIII | Nagano | Japan | 1998 |
| Robert H. Garff Frank Joklik Mitt Romney | XIX | Salt Lake City | United States | 2002 |
| Valentino Castellani | XX | Turin | Italy | 2006 |
| John Furlong | XXI | Vancouver | Canada | 2010 |
| Dmitry Chernyshenko | XXII | Sochi | Russia | 2014 |
| Kim Jin-sun Cho Yang-ho Lee Hee-beom | XXIII | Pyeongchang | South Korea | 2018 |
| Guo Jinlong Cai Qi | XXIV | Beijing | China | 2022 |
| Giovanni Malagò | XXV | Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | 2026 |
| Edgar Grospiron | XXVI | French Alps | France | 2030 |
| Fraser Bullock | XXVII | Utah | United States | 2034 |
Summer Youth Olympic Games
| President | Game | Host city | Host country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ng Ser Miang | I | Singapore | Singapore | 2010 |
| Li Xueyong | II | Nanjing | China | 2014 |
| Gerardo Werthein | III | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 2018 |
| Mamadou Ndiaye | IV | Dakar | Senegal | 2026 |
Winter Youth Olympic Games
| President | Game | Host city | Host country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Rubatscher | I | Innsbruck | Austria | 2012 |
| Siri Hatlen | II | Lillehammer | Norway | 2016 |
| Patrick Baumann Ira Logan Virginie Faivre | III | Lausanne | Switzerland | 2020 |
| Choi Moon-soon Choi Jong-gu | IV | Gangwon | South Korea | 2024 |
Other offices held
Presidents of the Olympic Organizing Committee have gone on to or have served in other high offices.
Joseph Goebbels who headed the organizing committees for the 1936 Winter Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics served as Chancellor of Germany for one day in 1945 before committing suicide.
Konstantin Chernenko was the leader of the Soviet Union while also being the President of the OCOG.
Elected office
David R. Francis who headed the organizing committee for the 1904 Summer Olympics served as Governor of Missouri prior to heading the organizing committee. He later briefly served as the United States Ambassador to Russia.
Following the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mitt Romney ran for Governor of Massachusetts and was elected Governor with nearly 50% of the vote in the election. He served one term as governor. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 Presidential Election but lost to then-incumbent President Barack Obama. Sixteen years after the Winter Olympics, Romney would go on be to elected Senator for the state of Utah following the midterm election.
Yoshirō Mori who headed the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo until 2021, he served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001.
Michel Barnier who headed of the organizing committee for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he 104th Prime Minister of France in 2024.
Other sporting positions
Pierre de Coubertin who headed the organizing committees for the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics as well as the 1924 Winter Olympics was the founder of the modern Olympic movement and International Olympic Committee. He served as President of the International Olympic Committee from 1896 to 1925.
Peter Ueberroth who headed the organizing committee for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles went on to serve as the Commissioner of Baseball from 1984 to 1989.
Sebastian Coe who headed the organizing committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London is now serving as the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations. He had also served as the Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 2012 to 2016.
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