As the excitement surrounding the successful albeit controversial Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi fades, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will shortly, albeit with less fanfare, welcome the arrival of new general counsel and chief operating officer Olivier Niggli, who joins the global agency from Swiss law firm Carrard & Associés.
Currently a partner at the Lausanne-based business and sports boutique, where he specialises in sport, arbitration and commercial law, Niggli will in June join the agency he helped to set up in 1999, as it prepares to implement a new, far stricter code, which comes into effect on 1 January 2015 and will double the ban for athletes found guilty of doping from two to four years.
