# President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games

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 | Games of the I Olympiad | Athens | Kingdom of Greece | 1896 |
| Pierre de Coubertin | Games of the II Olympiad | Paris | France | 1900 |
| David R. Francis | Games of the III Olympiad | St. Louis | United States | 1904 |
| William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough | Games of the IV Olympiad | London | United Kingdom | 1908 |
| Sigfrid Edström | Games of the V Olympiad | Stockholm | Sweden | 1912 |
| Henri de Baillet-Latour | Games of the VII Olympiad | Antwerp | Belgium | 1920 |
| Pierre de Coubertin | Games of the VIII Olympiad | Paris | France | 1924 |
| Solko van den Bergh | Games of the IX Olympiad | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1928 |
| George Bryant | Games of the X Olympiad | Los Angeles | United States | 1932 |
| Joseph Goebbels Karl Ritter von Halt | Games of the XI Olympiad | Berlin | Nazi Germany | 1936 |
| Lord Burghley | Games of the XIV Olympiad | London | United Kingdom | 1948 |
| Erik von Frenckell | Games of the XV Olympiad | Helsinki | Finland | 1952 |
| Wilfrid Kent Hughes | Games of the XVI Olympiad | Melbourne | Australia | 1956 |
| Giulio Andreotti | Games of the XVII Olympiad | Rome | Italy | 1960 |
| Juichi Tsushima Daigoro Yasukawa [ja] | Games of the XVIII Olympiad | Tokyo | Japan | 1964 |
| Pedro Ramírez Vázquez | Games of the XIX Olympiad | Mexico City | Mexico | 1968 |
| Willi Daume [de] | Games of the XX Olympiad | Munich | West Germany | 1972 |
| Roger Rousseau | Games of the XXI Olympiad | Montreal | Canada | 1976 |
| Ignati Novikov [ru] | Games of the XXII Olympiad | Moscow | Soviet Union | 1980 |
| Peter Ueberroth | Games of the XXIII Olympiad | Los Angeles | United States | 1984 |
| Kim Yong-shik Roh Tae-woo Park Seh-jik | Games of the XXIV Olympiad | Seoul | South Korea | 1988 |
| Pasqual Maragall | Games of the XXV Olympiad | Barcelona | Spain | 1992 |
| Billy Payne | Games of the XXVI Olympiad | Atlanta | United States | 1996 |
| Gary Pemberton John Iliffe Michael Knight | Games of the XXVII Olympiad | Sydney | Australia | 2000 |
| Efstratios Stratigis Panayiotis Thomopoulos Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | Athens | Greece | 2004 |
| Liu Qi | Games of the XXIX Olympiad | Beijing | China | 2008 |
| Lord Sebastian Coe | Games of the XXX Olympiad | London | United Kingdom | 2012 |
| Carlos Arthur Nuzman | Games of the XXXI Olympiad | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 2016 |
| Yoshirō Mori Seiko Hashimoto | Games of the XXXII Olympiad | Tokyo | Japan | 2021 |
| Tony Estanguet | Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | Paris | France | 2024 |
| Casey Wasserman | Games of the XXXIV Olympiad | Los Angeles | United States | 2028 |
| Andrew Liveris | Games of the XXXV Olympiad | Brisbane | Australia | 2032 |

### Winter Olympic Games

| President | Game | Host city | Host country | Year |
| Pierre de Coubertin | I Olympic Winter Games | Chamonix | France | 1924 |
| Edmund Schulthess | II Olympic Winter Games | St Moritz | Switzerland | 1928 |
| Godfrey Dewey | III Olympic Winter Games | Lake Placid | United States | 1932 |
| Joseph Goebbels Karl Ritter von Halt | IV Olympic Winter Games | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Nazi Germany | 1936 |
| Alfred Schläppi Heinrich Schläppi | V Olympic Winter Games | St. Moritz | Switzerland | 1948 |
| Haakon VII of Norway Princess Astrid of Norway Olaf Helset | VI Olympic Winter Games | Oslo | Norway | 1952 |
| Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel | VII Olympic Winter Games | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | 1956 |
| Prentis Cobb Hale | VIII Olympic Winter Games | Squaw Valley | United States | 1960 |
| Bruno Kreisky | IX Olympic Winter Games | Innsbruck | Austria | 1964 |
| Albert Michallon | X Olympic Winter Games | Grenoble | France | 1968 |
| Kōgorō Uemura | XI Olympic Winter Games | Sapporo | Japan | 1972 |
| Bruno Kreisky | XII Olympic Winter Games | Innsbruck | Austria | 1976 |
| Ron MacKenzie Rev. J. Bernard Fell | XIII Olympic Winter Games | Lake Placid | United States | 1980 |
| Branko Mikulić | XIV Olympic Winter Games | Sarajevo | Yugoslavia | 1984 |
| Frank King | XV Olympic Winter Games | Calgary | Canada | 1988 |
| Jean-Claude Killy Michel Barnier | XVI Olympic Winter Games | Albertville | France | 1992 |
| Gerhard Heiberg | XVII Olympic Winter Games | Lillehammer | Norway | 1994 |
| Eishiro Saito | XVIII Olympic Winter Games | Nagano | Japan | 1998 |
| Robert H. Garff Frank Joklik Mitt Romney | XIX Olympic Winter Games | Salt Lake City | United States | 2002 |
| Valentino Castellani | XX Olympic Winter Games | Turin | Italy | 2006 |
| John Furlong | XXI Olympic Winter Games | Vancouver | Canada | 2010 |
| Dmitry Chernyshenko | XXII Olympic Winter Games | Sochi | Russia | 2014 |
| Kim Jin-sun Cho Yang-ho Lee Hee-beom | XXIII Olympic Winter Games | Pyeongchang | South Korea | 2018 |
| Guo Jinlong Cai Qi | XXIV Olympic Winter Games | Beijing | China | 2022 |
| Giovanni Malagò | XXV Olympic Winter Games | Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | 2026 |

### Summer Youth Olympic Games

| President | Game | Host city | Host country | Year |
| Ng Ser Miang | I Summer Youth Olympic Games | Singapore | Singapore | 2010 |
| Li Xueyong | II Summer Youth Olympic Games | Nanjing | China | 2014 |
| Gerardo Werthein | III Summer Youth Olympic Games | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 2018 |
| Mamadou Ndiaye | IV Summer Youth Olympic Games | Dakar | Senegal | 2026 |

### Winter Youth Olympic Games

| President | Game | Host city | Host country | Year |
| Richard Rubatscher | I Winter Youth Olympic Games | Innsbruck | Austria | 2012 |
| Siri Hatlen | II Winter Youth Olympic Games | Lillehammer | Norway | 2016 |
| Patrick Baumann Ira Logan Virginie Faivre | III Winter Youth Olympic Games | Lausanne | Switzerland | 2020 |
| Choi Moon-soon Choi Jong-gu | IV Winter Youth Olympic Games | 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 is since the September 5, 2024, the 104th Prime Minister of France.

### 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.