Former DFSNZ CEO Graeme Steel Chosen as iNADO’s New Chief Executive Officer

The Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations is delighted to announce Graeme Steel will be its new Chief Executive Officer.  
Graeme is the outgoing CEO of Drug Free Sport New Zealand.
A careful and public recruitment process involved members of the iNADO Board of Directors, and two senior non-Board NADO leaders.  
There was an outstanding group of candidates.  

After thorough consideration, the selection committee produced a unanimous recommendation. The Board was pleased to accept it and appoint Graeme Steel to succeed Joseph de Pencier toward the end of 2017.

Said iNADO Chair Doug MacQuarrie, on behalf of the Board of Directors:

“We welcome Graeme to our leadership with great pleasure.

“The anti-doping community, and our membership in particular, will benefit greatly with him as our new CEO. Global anti-doping is at a critical juncture and, as we have seen to date, iNADO has much to offer.

“When Graeme joins us in this central role, iNADO will enjoy a seamless transition in its outstanding leadership.”

“Graeme is widely known as a passionate advocate for clean sport, athletes’ rights and organisational excellence. Many of us in anti-doping have worked shoulder to shoulder with him for years in the pursuit of Clean Sport Together. Graeme has distinguished himself by a focus on the benefit of sport driven by clear and positive values. His accomplishments in our field are widely regarded. It is a privilege to have him join to lead our exceptional staff team.”

Graeme Steel accepted his appointment with enthusiasm, saying:

“National Anti-Doping Organisations contribute more than any other group to the achievement of clean sport. Assisting them to continually improve their effectiveness is a primary goal of iNADO. I look forward to applying my almost 30 years of experience in anti-doping work to that task. iNADO, through its Board, staff and membership has a bank of knowledge and experience second to none.  The challenge is to harness that and ensure that it continues to contribute constructively to the work of WADA and other key players who have the same unswerving objective of protecting clean athletes and supporting the integrity of sport.”
 
Incumbent CEO Joseph de Pencier stated:
  
“Graeme is one of the most highly-respected leaders of the NADO community. He has a depth and breadth of experience in anti-doping that is unique. His passion for ethical sport is matched by his reputation as a leader and as a thinker in our field. None of us can doubt his capacity to guide the Institute and its Membership through the challenges and opportunities of improving best practices, of Code compliance, of anti-doping organisation governance reform and of enhancing athlete confidence in anti-doping.  
Mathias Merschhemke, Jorge Leyva and I could not be happier in welcoming Graeme as my successor.”
 
Graeme will come to Bonn and on strength at the end of October, with the month of November as the transition period between outgoing and incoming CEOs. In the future, Joseph will continue to be available to Graeme, to the Institute and to the community as a consultant and as a volunteer to support the vision of Clean Sport Together and the continuing development and success of iNADO.