Petter Riiser

International Doping Control Coordinator, Norwegian Confederation of Sport

Petter Riiser is working as an International Doping Control Coordinator in the Anti-Doping & Ethics Department of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF). Since January 2001, Petter has assisted the Drug Free Sports Consortium (the DFSC consists of the Australian Sports Drug Agency, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and NIF) to provide drug testing services to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) from Oslo, Norway. NIF has the responsibility for the planning of WADAs out of competition testing program in the winter sports. Prior to accepting the position with NIF, Petter worked for 9 years as a Secretary General in the Norwegian Association of University Sport (NSI). In this position he attended a number of multi-sport competitions as a Head of Delegation under the auspices of the International University Sports Federation (FISU). Petter was also elected into the FISU Medical Commission in 1999. From 1995, Petter was engaged as project manager for developing and implementing a quality system for domestic doping controls. This work resulted in Norway being the first country in the world to be certified under ISO 9002 and by the International Anti-Doping Agreement (IADA) Standard for Doping Control. Petter has also acted as the Head of the Department; Ethics, Sports Medicine & Anti-Doping in NIF for one year, and has also been a Doping Control Officer (DCO) for 15 years. This has led to Petter chairing a number of anti-doping courses for sports physicians and DCOs. Petter was also appointed the administrative leader for the 3rd World Anti-Doping Conference in Bergen in 1991. Petter's professional and social interests revolve around sport. He has been variously the vice-president, a player, referee, and coach in the Norwegian Basketball Association since 1968. Now that Petter has retired from competitive level sport, he is still active as a cross-country skier and basketball player at a recreation level.

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