(ATR) Nicole Hoevertsz is a trail-blazer for women in sport administration in the Americas.
Hoevertsz, 49, became the first woman to sit on Executive Board for the Pan American Sports Organization in 1998. She continues to be one of the few women on the EB, holding the posts of chair of the PASO Women and Sport Commission and Chancellor, where she oversees all protocol for PASO.
She joined the IOC in 2006 and serves on three commissions: the influential Coordination Commission for the 2016 Olympics, the International Relations Commission and the Women and Sport Commission.
An Olympian, Hoevertsz represented Aruba at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in synchronized swimming
A native of Aruba, she is the Secretary General of the Aruba Olympic Committee. Trained as a lawyer, she received advanced legal education in the Netherlands. In her professional career she has served as legal advisor to the Prime Minister of Aruba, the Department of Foreign Affairs for the Government of Aruba, and currently serves as Permanent Secretary to the Council of Ministers of Aruba. When she became deputy permanent secretary in 1994, she was the first woman in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to hold the position.
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