Christer Ahl
Former Council Member and President of the Playing Rules and Referees Commission (PRC); now Honorary Member;
Biography
Player (and assistant coach) 1957-1969
Referee since 1959;
International referee 1979-1992;
Referee administrator and instructor, Goteborg region, Sweden 1972-1974
Referee Chief in USA 1974-1996
Referee Chief in PanAmerica 1980-2004
IHF/PRC Lecturer 1977-1992 (32 years in IHF!)
Associate member of IHF/PRC for Panamerica 1984-1992
IHF/PRC member for Panamerica 1992-2004
IHF/PRC President and IHF Council Member 2004-2009
President, Disciplinary and Ethics Tribunal, PanAmerican Handball Federation, 2012-2014
Currently, he is writing for Team Handball News
Master of Business Administration, specialized in Economics and Personnel Mgmt, 1969
Thesis at doctoral level in Personnel Management.: Competence, Motivation, Well-being
Personnel Manager, SKF Sweden 1969-74
Chief of Personnel division, International Monetary Fund, Washington, 1974-2001
Commissioner and Council Member in Community Planning, Arlington 2001- Languages: English, Swedish/Scandinavian, German, Spanish, some French;
Born 1948; Married
Presentations at Play the Game:
The Despotic Regime of the IHF Just Continues - Play the Game 2013 (pdf)
World handball hi-jacked by its President Play the Game 2009 (pdf)
Play the Game
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Sports – Merely a vehicle for passive entertainment?
04-07-2018
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Christer's Corner: Should we not have expected that…
01-08-2016
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Christer's corner: The outrage is still missing
20-05-2016
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Christer's corner: Do we really need international sports federations?
15-03-2016
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Christers corner: U.S. justice system's role vs. FIFA: Good or bad?
25-01-2016
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Christer's corner: Are we just ‘preaching to the converted’?
17-09-2015
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Christer's Corner: Video Review in Refereeing – Issues and Considerations
07-08-2015
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Christer's corner: Will the events in FIFA affect other sports federations?
03-06-2015
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Christer's corner: Different approaches to sports on the two sides of the Atlantic
19-03-2015
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Christer's corner: IOC Agenda 2020 suggests a ‘business machine’ with tendencies to hubris and negligence
06-01-2015
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Politicians must keep their hands off disciplinary decision-making processes
07-11-2014
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Time to split up the Olympic Summer Games?
01-09-2014
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Geopolitics influencing the refereeing at the World Cup in football
25-07-2014
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Corruption in sports – are we too naïve, and who cares?
06-06-2014
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'Rien ne va plus!': Karabatic and teammates betting that their own team would lose – but did they then lose intentionally?
03-10-2012
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Bahraini sport sends athletes to jail; IOC stays quiet, asking oppressors for advise
28-04-2011
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IHF in the Spotlight during the Men’s World Championship
22-02-2011
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Conflict of Interest - or worse!?
01-02-2010
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What result do you want?
29-07-2009