Steering Committee
Robert (Bob) Ctvrtlik (stuh-vert-lik) has served in various capacities within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 1996 and has been involved in the Olympic movement since his days as an amateur and professional volleyball player. He is currently serving as First Vice-President of the United States Olympic Committee, with an emphasis on international programmes and operations. He also directs the worldwide IOC Athlete Career Programme, as a strategic advisor with Adecco, the world’s largest human resource firm.
Robert Ctvrtlik has served on the IOC Reform Commission, the IOC Environmental Commission and working groups for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Summer Games. A founding board member of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), he served on the WADA Standardisation and Harmonisation Subcommittee and was Chairman of the Site Evaluation Search Committee for the WADA Headquarters. He is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), where he chairs the ANOC Marketing Commission, as well as the Executive Committee of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO).
Robert Ctvrtlik started as a standout player on the Pepperdine University men’s volleyball team. He was elected best volleyball player in the world by the International Volleyball Federation (1995) and named the United States Olympic Committee Player of the Year (1994). In 1994, he was named captain of the American Olympic team after participating in both the 1988 Seoul Games and the 1992 Barcelona Games – capturing gold and bronze, respectively. Robert Ctvrtlik made his final Olympic Games appearance, as captain, with the 1996 squad in Atlanta. As a fitting conclusion to his sporting career, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2007.
His most personal commitment came in 1995 when he founded the Bob Ctvrtlik Give Back Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising money for abused, disabled and disadvantaged children.
He graduated in 1995 from Pepperdine University (USA) with a degree in Business Administration. Robert Ctvrtlik lives with his wife of 15 years, Cosette, and his three boys, Josef (15), Erik (13) and Matthew (11), on Balboa Island in Newport Beach, California.