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Place of Birth: Kaolack, Senegal
About Kéba Mbaye
- Kéba Mbaye (April 6, 1924, Kaolack, French Senegal – January 12, 2007, Dakar, Senegal) was a judge and member of both the International Olympic Committee and the International Court of Justice. Mbaye was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1973-2002.
- An associate of Juan Antonio Samaranch, he served as IOC vice-president from 1988 to 1992, member of the executive board from 1984 to 1988 and 1993 to 1998, and chair of its ethics commission since 1999.
- He also served as president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the highest Olympic tribunal. Mbaye helped in bringing South Africa from Olympic exile after the apartheid era.
- Later, at the height of the Salt Lake City bid scandal, Samaranch appointed him to chair a new ethics commission to police the conduct of fellow IOC members.
- He also headed the IOC panel on legal matters.
- A legal scholar, he served as Vice-President of the International Court of Justice and was made Honorary Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Senegal.
- Mbaye was President of the International Commission of Jurists from 1977 to 1985 and Commissioner from 1972 to 1987.
- His published legal works include The Realities of the Black World and Human Rights; Family Law in Black Africa and Madagascar; and Human Rights in Africa.
- The International Olympic Committee and South Africa, Analysis and Illustration of a humanitarian sport policy. Upon his death, IOC President Jacques Rogge released this statement: "Keba Mbaye was one of those men whose humanity and charisma mark you for life.
- His devotion to the Olympic movement and its values was unfailing.
- We have lost a great man."
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