Gloria Viseras joined the IOC Safe Sport Unit in the Medical and Scientific Department in September 2022 as Senior Project Manager coming from FIFA where she was the Senior Event Safeguarding Manager. At 15 she was the Artistic Gymnastics National Champion and one of the only 9 women who represented Spain in the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980. Over a decade, she has been a strong advocate for safe sport and working at national and international levels to supportpersons with lived experiences and help organizations implement safeguarding good practices that foster safe and supportive sporting environments for all participants, especially young athletes. In Spain, in addition to her extensive awareness raising work and the continuous support to athletes with lived experiences, she coauthored the safeguarding policy and procedures currently implemented by the Spanish High Council for Sport and of mandatory implementation by all National Sports Federations. At international level, she has extensively collaborated with the Council of Europe, the European Commission and other international organisations on different projects, conferences and activities. At the IOC she is leading on the implementation of safeguarding measures and embedding safeguarding across the lifecycle of the Olympic, contributing to the development of educational materials for stakeholders across the Olympic Movement and supporting sports organisations in the development and implementation of safeguarding policies and procedures.
