Former WSF President Tunku Imran Elected IOC Member

HRH Prince Tunku Imran, Patron of the World Squash Federation (WSF) and President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, has been elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Elected at the 118th IOC Session in Turin this month, the former WSF President from Malaysia joins four other new IOC members who will serve a mandate of eight years. The IOC has 115 members.

On hearing the news, WSF Chief Executive Christian Leighton, immediately offered his congratulations to Prince Imran, President of the Federation from 1989 to 1996. "This is in recognition of your contributions to world sport and an acknowledgement of how much you can give to the IOC."

Tunku Imran added: "It is indeed a wonderful honour for me personally, but more importantly for the organisations that I am involved with, such as the WSF."

A Vice-President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Tunku Imran is also a Board Member of the National Sports Council of Malaysia, President of the Malaysian Cricket Association and Chairman of the Foundation for Malaysian Sporting Excellence. He was Malaysia's first National Squash Champion in 1973 and Chef de Mission to the Malaysian Team at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.