2 March 2016
Letter to Members from AH 01.02.16
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1 February 2016
To: All Members
Council
Dear Members
I am delighted to have commenced my new role at World Sailing and I
am genuinely
honoured to be serving our sport and you our members.
I passionately believe that there is such a great opportunity to
further grow and develop
our sport on so many levels and I look forward to working with the
World Sailing family to
enable that vision to be realised.
As you can imagine, my first three weeks have been exceptionally
busy dealing with a
number of critical issues for our sport. Handling these matters in
an expedient,
professional and informed way has only been possible with the
support of the excellent
staff at World Sailing, the President and the Executive
Committee.
One of my key areas of focus during 2016 will be to establish a
strong working relationship
with the World Sailing Family founded on earned trust and mutual
respect. I look forward
to meeting and getting to know as many of you as I am able to at
events, forums and our
annual conference later this year. I am aware that we need to
continuously work to
improve our engagement with our members and I hope to announce some
new initiatives
in this area during the year.
I also plan to ensure that we continue to build excellent
relationships right across the
Olympic family, including the IOC, ASOIF and our fellow
International Federations. It is
essential that we continue to raise our presence and influence
within the Olympic
movement and for that reason I and other members of the management
team plan to be in
Lausanne on a frequent basis.
My top priority is to ensure that in conjunction with Rio2016 that
we deliver an outstanding
Olympic and Paralympic sailing competition. I will be working with
our team to ensure that
no stone has been left unturned in delivering a safe and fair
competition. To that end, I will
be travelling to Rio on a number of occasions between now and the
Games to satisfy
myself first hand of the preparations and to support the excellent
work that has been led by
Alastair Fox, our Medical Commission and many others across the
sport.
Of course there is much to be done to ensure that we operate as
a
professional, efficient and effective governing body for our sport.
We need
unreserved commitment to genuine communication and consultation
and
a willingness to change our views if that is the right thing to do.
World
Sailing needs to show fairness and good judgement but we should
not
stand still. If we have Regulations that are outdated, or not
reflecting
leading practise, then we need to be prepared to change them but we
need to be unbiased
and independent when we come to enforcing our Regulations.
I am very much looking forward to working with President Croce, the
Executive Committee
and all of you over the coming months and years. Please find my
contact details below for
your future reference.
Yours in Sport
Andy Hunt
Chief Executive Officer
Email: andy.hunt@isaf.com
Mobile: +44 (0)7768 257017
