Neven Iván Ilic Álvarez is a Chilean engineer and sports official that was born on 4 April 1962 in

Antofagasta Antofagasta () is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669. Once claimed by Bolivia follo ...

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. He is a member of the

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(IOC).

Education

Ilic studied Civil Engineering at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile; ) is a traditional private university based in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the thirteen Catholic universities existing in Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical univ ...

Career

Some of Ilic's most important achievements while in charge of the

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were the creation of the ADO Chile, the Association of Olympic Athletes of Chile, the creation of the Olympic Sports Channel (CDO) with 24-hour transmission; the construction of the Olympic Training Center in

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with more than 29,000 square meters and the Olympic Training Center for Canoeing and Rowing in Curauma,

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; as well as the awarding of the hosting rights for the 2014

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, 2017

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and the 2023

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to the Chilean capital of Santiago.

Sports career

Ilic was a member of the ''Network Stadium'' Commission, which studies the conditions of the different national stadium in order to improve their infrastructure. From 2000 to 2004 he was Director of the National Tennis Federation, as well as the Director of the High-Performance Center, National Tennis Federation. He was the chairman of the Olympic Athletes Association (ADO-Chile), a non-profit corporation whose goal is to position Chile as a top sporting nation. Ilic was a member of the Marketing Commission of the

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(ANOC). In 2010, he was a member of the Evaluation Commission for the South-American Games,

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. He was president of the Organizing Committee for the South-American Games, Santiago in 2014, and President of the Organizing Committee Beach Bolivarian Games,

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in 2016. In 2017, he was President of the Organizing Committee for the South-American Youth Games, Santiago. From 2008 to 2016, he was a Member of the Executive Committee for the Pan-American Sports Organization (PASO), where in 2017 he was PASO President. In 2017 he was elected as member of the

(IOC). 2014 he was a member of the Evaluation for

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, as well as in 2018 when he was a member of the Evaluation for the Youth Olympic Games 2022. In 2019, he was a member of the Coordination of the Games of the

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, and in May 2020 he ran for re-election at the Panam Sports General Assembly in

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, where in October 2020 he was set to be re-elected with no votes against.

Awards

In 2018, Ilic received the IFBB Spirit of Sport.

References

International Olympic Committee members 1962 births Chilean engineers Living people Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni People from Antofagasta Chilean people of Croatian descent {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilic, Neven