McNamee named chair of WADA Ethics Expert Advisory Group
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has appointed Michael McNamee as the chair of the organisation's Ethics Expert Advisory Group.
McNamee, who holds Professorships in ethics at KU Leuven in Belgium and Swansea University in Wales in the United Kingdom, has already taken up the role, beginning at the start of May.
He replaces Bartha Knoppers, who stepped down after 18 years on the advisory group, including five as chair.
Knoppers is the chair in law and medicine at Canada Research, and director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University.