President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games
The President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is the individual who is in charge of leading the Organizing Committee for each Olympic Games.
Lists of presidents
[Summer Olympic Games]
| President | Game | Host City | Host Country | Year |
| Constantine I of Greece | Games of the I Olympiad | Athens | 1896 | |
| Pierre de Coubertin | Games of the II Olympiad | Paris | 1900 | |
| David R. Francis | Games of the III Olympiad | St. Louis | 1904 | |
| Edward Battell | Games of the IV Olympiad | London | 1908 | |
| Sigfrid Edström | Games of the V Olympiad | Stockholm | 1912 | |
| Henri de Baillet-Latour | Games of the VII Olympiad | Antwerp | 1920 | |
| Pierre de Coubertin | Games of the VIII Olympiad | Paris | 1924 | |
| Solko van den Bergh | Games of the IX Olympiad | Amsterdam | 1928 | |
| George Bryant | Games of the X Olympiad | Los Angeles | 1932 | |
| Joseph Goebbels Karl Ritter von Halt | Games of the XI Olympiad | Berlin | 1936 | |
| Lord Burghley | Games of the XIV Olympiad | London | 1948 | |
| Erik von Frenckell | Games of the XV Olympiad | Helsinki | 1952 | |
| Wilfrid Kent Hughes | Games of the XVI Olympiad | Melbourne | 1956 | |
| Giulio Andreotti | Games of the XVII Olympiad | Rome | 1960 | |
| Games of the XVIII Olympiad | Tokyo | 1964 | ||
| Pedro Ramírez Vázquez | Games of the XIX Olympiad | Mexico City | 1968 | |
| Hans-Jochen Vogel | Games of the XX Olympiad | Munich | 1972 | |
| Jean Doré | Games of the XXI Olympiad | Montreal | 1976 | |
| Konstantin Chernenko | Games of the XXII Olympiad | Moscow | 1980 | |
| Peter Ueberroth | Games of the XXIII Olympiad | Los Angeles | 1984 | |
| Kim Yong-shik Roh Tae-woo Park Seh-jik | Games of the XXIV Olympiad | Seoul | 1988 | |
| Pasqual Maragall | Games of the XXV Olympiad | Barcelona | 1992 | |
| Billy Payne | Games of the XXVI Olympiad | Atlanta | 1996 | |
| Michael Knight | Games of the XXVII Olympiad | Sydney | 2000 | |
| Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | Athens | 2004 | |
| Liu Qi | Games of the XXIX Olympiad | Beijing | 2008 | |
| Lord Sebastian Coe | Games of the XXX Olympiad | London | 2012 | |
| Carlos Arthur Nuzman | Games of the XXXI Olympiad | Rio de Janeiro | 2016 | |
| Yoshirō Mori | Games of the XXXII Olympiad | Tokyo | 2020 | |
| Tony Estanguet | Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | Paris | 2024 | |
| Casey Wasserman | Games of the XXXIV Olympiad | Los Angeles | 2028 |
[Winter Olympic Games]
| President | Game | Host City | Host Country | Year |
| Pierre de Coubertin | I Olympic Winter Games | Chamonix | 1924 | |
| Edmund Schulthess | II Olympic Winter Games | St Moritz | 1928 | |
| Godfrey Dewey | III Olympic Winter Games | Lake Placid | 1932 | |
| Joseph Goebbels Karl Ritter von Halt | IV Olympic Winter Games | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | 1936 | |
| Alfred Schläppi Heinrich Schläppi | V Olympic Winter Games | St. Moritz | 1948 | |
| Haakon VII of Norway Princess Astrid of Norway Olaf Helset | VI Olympic Winter Games | Oslo | 1952 | |
| Enrico Colli | VII Olympic Winter Games | Cortina d'Ampezzo | 1956 | |
| Prentis Cobb Hale | VIII Olympic Winter Games | Squaw Valley | 1960 | |
| Bruno Kreisky | IX Olympic Winter Games | Innsbruck | 1964 | |
| Jean de Beaumont | X Olympic Winter Games | Grenoble | 1968 | |
| Kōgorō Uemura | XI Olympic Winter Games | Sapporo | 1972 | |
| Bruno Kreisky | XII Olympic Winter Games | Innsbruck | 1976 | |
| Rev. J. Bernard Fell | XIII Olympic Winter Games | Lake Placid | 1980 | |
| Branko Mikulić | XIV Olympic Winter Games | Sarajevo | 1984 | |
| Frank King | XV Olympic Winter Games | Calgary | 1988 | |
| Jean-Claude Killy | XVI Olympic Winter Games | Albertville | 1992 | |
| Gerhard Heiberg | XVII Olympic Winter Games | Lillehammer | 1994 | |
| Eishiro Saito | XVIII Olympic Winter Games | Nagano | 1998 | |
| Frank Joklik Mitt Romney | XIX Olympic Winter Games | Salt Lake City | 2002 | |
| Valentino Castellani | XX Olympic Winter Games | Turin | 2006 | |
| John Furlong | XXI Olympic Winter Games | Vancouver | 2010 | |
| Dmitry Chernyshenko | XXII Olympic Winter Games | Sochi | 2014 | |
| Kim Jin-sun Cho Yang-ho Lee Hee-beom | XXIII Olympic Winter Games | Pyeongchang | 2018 | |
| Guo Jinlong Cai Qi | XXIV Olympic Winter Games | Beijing | 2022 | |
| Giovanni Malagò | XXV Olympic Winter Games | Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo | 2026 |
Summer [Youth Olympic Games]
| President | Game | Host City | Host Country | Year |
| Ng Ser Miang | I Summer Youth Olympic Games | Singapore |  Singapore | 2010 |
| Li Xueyong | II Summer Youth Olympic Games | Nanjing | 2014 | |
| Gerardo Werthein | III Summer Youth Olympic Games | Buenos Aires | 2018 | |
| Mamadou D. Ndiaye | IV Summer Youth Olympic Games | Dakar | 2022 |
Winter Youth Olympic Games
| President | Game | Host City | Host Country | Year |
| Richard Rubatscher | I Winter Youth Olympic Games | Innsbruck | 2012 | |
| Siri Hatlen | II Winter Youth Olympic Games | Lillehammer | 2016 | |
| Patrick Baumann Ira Logan Virginie Faivre | III Winter Youth Olympic Games | Lausanne | 2020 | |
| Choi Moon-soon | IV Winter Youth Olympic Games | Gangwon | 2024 |
Other offices held
Presidents of the Olympic Organizing Committee have gone on to or have served in other high offices.Joseph Goebbels who headed the organizing committees for the 1936 Winter Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics served as Chancellor of Germany for one day in 1945 before committing suicide.
Konstantin Chernenko was the leader of the Soviet Union while also being the President of the OCOG.
Elected office
who headed the organizing committee for the 1904 Summer Olympics served as Governor of Missouri prior to heading the organizing committee. He later briefly served as the United States Ambassador to Russia.Following the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mitt Romney ran for Governor of Massachusetts and was elected Governor with nearly 50% of the vote in the election. He served one term as governor. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 Presidential Election but lost to then-incumbent President Barack Obama. Sixteen years after the Winter Olympics, Romney would go on to elect Senator of the state of Utah following the vote in the election.
Yoshirō Mori who is the head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001.
Other sporting positions
who headed the organizing committees for the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics as well as the 1924 Winter Olympics was the founder of the modern Olympic movement and International Olympic Committee. He served as President of the International Olympic Committee from 1896 to 1925.Peter Ueberroth who headed the organizing committee for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles went on to serve as the Commissioner of Baseball from 1984 to 1989.
Sebastian Coe who headed the organizing committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London is now serving as the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations. He had also served as the Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 2012 to 2016.