FIBA Central Board

The FIBA Central Board is an institution of FIBA (the governing body of basketball). It is the highest executive body of the organization, with the role of overseeing basketball globally. A majority of its members are elected by the FIBA Congress, while up to six members may be co-opted.^[1]

FIBA Central Board

Headquarters	Mies, Switzerland
Official language	English, French
Secretary General	Andreas Zagklis
President	Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani
First Vice President	David Reid
Vice President	Jorge Garbajosa
Vice President	Anibal Manave
Website	about.fiba.basketball/en/organization/structure/central-board

In addition to presenting reports to the Congress, the Board also appoints the host countries of the FIBA Basketball World Cup and the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, and is in charge of appointing the Secretary General, members of the Executive Committee and the different FIBA Commissions.

Structure

Following the 2014 FIBA Extraordinary Congress in Istanbul, FIBA announced a new set of statues that would come into force. These include the increase of Central Board membership from 23 to up to 29 members,^[2] including one representative each from the National Basketball Association of the United States and the players association.^[1]

The Central Board is currently made up of the following individuals:

• President
• Secretary-General
• Treasurer
• FIBA Africa: one vice-president and two members
• FIBA Americas: four members
• FIBA Asia: three members
• FIBA Europe: one vice-president and four members
• FIBA Oceania: one vice-president and two members
• Up to six co-opted members^[a]
• NBA representative
• Players representative

Membership

The Central Board of the 2023–2027 term was elected during the 22nd FIBA Congress in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines before the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Other members were appointed on 9 September 2023 during the Board's first meeting.^[3]

FIBA Central Board composition
President
Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani  Qatar
Secretary-General
Andreas Zagklis  Greece
Treasurer
Ingo Weiss  Germany
First Vice-President
David Reid  Australia (President of FIBA Oceania)
Vice Presidents
Jorge Garbajosa  Spain (President of FIBA Europe)			Anibal Manave  Mozambique (President of FIBA Africa)
Members
FIBA Africa	FIBA Americas	FIBA Asia	FIBA Europe	FIBA Oceania	Co-opted members
Jean-Michel Ramaroson  Madagascar	Fabián Borro  Argentina (President of FIBA Americas)	Yao Ming  China	Asterios Zois  Greece	Burton Ross Shipley  New Zealand	Erick Thohir  Indonesia
Pascale Mugwaneza  Rwanda	Yamil Alejandro Bukele Perez  El Salvador	Kempareddy Govindaraj  India (President of FIBA Asia)	Tor Christian Bakken  Norway	Jubilee Kuartei  Palau	Richard Carrión  Puerto Rico
	Carol Callan  United States	Yuko Mitsuya  Japan	Carmen Tocală  Romania		Alfredo Panlilio  Philippines
	Usie Richards  U.S. Virgin Islands		Matej Erjavec  Slovenia		Andrei Kirilenko  Russia[b]
					Sonja Vasić  Serbia
NBA representative			Players representative
Mark Tatum  United States			Dirk Nowitzki  Germany

Past Central Boards

2019–2023[4][5] FIBA President Hamane Niang FIBA First Vice President Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani (President of FIBA Asia) FIBA Vice Presidents Burton Ross Shipley (President of FIBA Oceania) Turgay Demirel (President of FIBA Europe) FIBA Secretary-General Andreas Zagklis FIBA Treasurer Ingo Weiss David Reid Célestine Adjanohoun Michelle O'Keefe Yao Ming Antti Zitting Jean-Pierre Siutat Asterios Zois Erick Thohir Yuko Mitsuya Jean-Michel Ramaroson Anibal Manave (President of FIBA Africa) Karo Lelai Marcelo Bedoya Manuel Pangilinan Richard Carrión Carmen Tocală Andrei Kirilenko[c] Jorge Garbajosa[d] Carol Callan (President of FIBA Americas) Usie Richards NBA representative Mark Tatum Players representative Dirk Nowitzki

2014–2019[8][9] FIBA President Horacio Muratore FIBA First Vice President Hamane Niang (President of FIBA Africa) FIBA Vice Presidents Xiao Tian (replaced)[e] Turgay Demirel (President of FIBA Europe) FIBA Secretary-General Andreas Zagklis (appointed on 7 December 2018)[f] FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann (until 13 October 2018)[g] FIBA Treasurer Ingo Weiss Steve Smith Cyriel Coomans Célestine Adjanohoun Michelle O'Keefe Jean-Pierre Siutat Asterios Zois Erick Thohir Yuko Mitsuya Deborah Shoniber Anibal Manave Burton Ross Shipley (President of FIBA Oceania) Marcelo Bedoya Manuel Pangilinan Richard Carrión Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani (President of FIBA Asia) Yulia Anikeeva (replaced)[h] José Luis Sáez Lena Wallin-Kantzy Jim Tooley Usie Richards (President of FIBA Americas) NBA representative Mark Tatum Players representative Vlade Divac

2010–2014[16] FIBA President Yvan Mainini FIBA Vice President Horacio Muratore FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann FIBA Treasurer Manfred Ströher Alberto Garcia Robert Elphinston Steve Smith Nar Zanolin Xu Lan Dieudonne Eseka Mabusa Alphonse Bilé Ólafur Rafnsson Dato' Yeoh Choo Hock Salamatou Maïga Barbara Wheadon Richard Carrión Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani Sergey Chernov José Luis Sáez Lena Wallin-Kantzy Valerie Ackerman Usie Richards

2006–2010[17] FIBA President Robert Elphinston FIBA Vice President George Vassilakopoulos FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann FIBA Treasurer Manfred Ströher Steve Smith Horacio Muratore Yu Zaiqing Alain Ekra Alphonse Bilé Julio Subero Yvan Mainini Mabel Mun Wai Ching Sheik Fahad Al-Ahmad Alsabah Talal Marion Grethen Salamatou Maïga Barbara Wheadon William Kelderman Jenaro Marchand José Luis Sáez Valerie Ackerman

FIBA Executive Committee

FIBA Executive Committee

Headquarters	Mies, Switzerland
Official language	English, French
Secretary General	Andreas Zagklis
Chair	Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani (President of FIBA)
Treasurer	Ingo Weiss
Website	about.fiba.basketball/en/organization/structure/executive-committee

The FIBA Executive Committee is a body that exercises the powers of the FIBA Central Board, with roles including the development of strategies in widening basketball's global reach, approving annual budgets and receiving financial updates, and the appointment of host countries for FIBA's international competitions (except the FIBA Basketball World Cup and the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup). Any decision taken by the committee are to be relayed to the Central Board, as per FIBA's General Statutes.^[1]

Members of the Executive Committee are appointed by the Central Board amongst its own members, with the President of FIBA serving as the Chair of the committee. Both the Secretary-General and Treasurer are also members of the body. According to the organization's statutes, six members are to be appointed, with up to two additional individuals appointed upon proposal by the President and the Secretary General.^[1]

FIBA's Executive Committee for the 2023–2027 term comprises of the following members

• FIBA President Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani (Chair)
• FIBA Secretary-General Andreas Zagklis
• FIBA Treasurer Ingo Weiss
• Fabián Borro
• David Reid
• Yuko Mitsuya
• Anibal Manave
• Richard Carrión
• Carmen Tocală
• Jorge Garbajosa
• Mark Tatum

Notes

1. For the 2023–2027 term, the Central Board co-opted five members.
2. Kirilenko's appointment will be subject to decisions by FIBA and the International Olympic Committee in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
3. Kirilenko was co-opted in March 2020.^[6]
4. Garbajosa was co-opted in November 2020.^[7]
5. Xiao was suspended by FIBA in 2015 due to an investigation by China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection implicating him of corrpution.^[10] He was replaced by Yuko Mitsuya of Japan during the FIBA Mid-Term Congress in 2017.^[11]
6. Following the death of Patrick Baumann, Zagklis was appointed Secretary-General of FIBA on 7 December 2018.^[12]
7. Baumann died on 13 October 2018 while attending the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[13]
8. Following her removal from her position as President of the Russian Basketball Federation in 2015 due to corruption allegations which she would eventually be sentenced to jail for,^[14] FIBA's Executive Committee decided on 7 June 2016 that there would be a process to replace Anikeeva.^[15] She was eventually replaced by Asterios Zois of Greece during the FIBA Mid-Term Congress in 2017.^[11]