Peter Conde

Peter Conde (born 2 December 1958)[1] is an Australian sailor and leading Australian sport administrator. In August 2017, he was appointed as the Director of the Australian Institute of Sport.[2]

Personal

Conde was born on 3 December 1958. He has attained a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from University of Queensland and Masters of Business Administration from Australian Graduate School of Management.[1] Prior to his appointment as Yachting Australia Performance Manager, Conde worked for international consulting firms Boston Consulting Group and A T Kearney.[3]

Sailing

Conde is a successful sailor with a silver medal in the laser class at the 1979 World Championships and a bronze medal in the etchells class at the 1996 World Championships.[1]

Sports administration

Conde joined Yachting Australia as a consultant after Australia failed to win a medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[4] He was appointed the Australian Sailing Team's Performance Director in 2009. During his period as Performance Manager, the Australian Sailing Team won three gold and one silver at the 2012 London Olympics and one gold and three silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics. At the Paralympics, the Australian team won one gold at the 2012 London Paralympics and two gold and oine silver at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[4] Under his leadership the Australian Sailing Team won Australian Institute of Sport Program of the Year in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012.[4]

In August 2017, he was appointed the ninth Director of the Australian Institute of Sport replacing Matt Favier.[2]

gollark: I WILL recurse anyway.
gollark: The game is worrying me. The soundtrack just seems to be low-level ominous noise?
gollark: Just deploying our bee neuron intelligences against this would be boring.
gollark: No, I won it.
gollark: I don't understand it and I seem to be losing.

References
  1. "Peter Conde". World Sailing website. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. Dutton, Chris (29 August 2017). "Former Sailing Australia performance director Peter Conde named as AIS boss". Canberra Times. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. "Yachting Australia announces Peter Conde as High Performance Director". Seabreeze.com.au. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  4. "Peter Conde to depart Australian Sailing". Australian SailingTeam website. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
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