Richard W. Pound, CC, OQ, CD, QC, FCPA is an Olympian (swimming), former secretary and president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and is currently the longest-serving active member of the International Olympic Committee.  He has twice been Vice President of the IOC (1987-1991) and 1996-2000) and has chaired its Television Negotiations, Marketing and Olympic Broadcast Services commissions.  He was the Founding President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (1999-2007) and was a member of the WADA Foundation Board from 1999-2020.  He chaired the IOC investigation commission that investigated the Salt Lake City bidding scandal and the WADA Independent Commission that investigated Russian doping activities in Athletics.  He is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and serves as an arbitrator at the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.

He is a former Chair of the Board of Governors of McGill University and former Chancellor of McGill, where he is currently Chancellor and Governor Emeritus.  He is called to the Bars of Quebec and Ontario and is Counsel at Stikeman Elliott LLP, working from its Montreal office.  He is a retired Honorary Colonel of the Canadian Grenadier Guards.  He has chaired Canada’s National History Society, Partnership for aa Drug-Free Canada (now Drug-Free Kids Canada) and the community Foundation of Greater Montreal.  He writes extensively on professional legal matters as well as Olympic and historical subjects.