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Dr. Edwin Moses is a distinguished Olympic champion and world record holder, sports administrator, diplomat, businessman and writer. He is one of the most respected, recognized and esteemed international athletes of our time. Moses has resolutely served and promoted the Olympic movement and fostered the development of "drug-free" sports and amateur athletes' rights at all levels. 

Moses began his athletic career in age group competitions and later in high school in the 180-yard low hurdles and 440-yard dash. He accepted a dual-degree academic scholarship in physics and engineering from Morehouse College rather than an athletic scholarship. At the 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Montreal, he became the Olympic Champion in the 400-meter hurdles, bettering the Olympic and World Records with a time of 47.63 seconds. The 1980 Olympic Games boycott kept him from competing. But he won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. His world record remained unbroken until 1992. For an entire decade; nine years, nine months, and nine days, from August 1977 to June 1987, Moses collected an unprecedented 122 straight victories, 107 of these in finals. This winning streak has remained unbeaten and stands in the Guinness Book of Records to this date. 

He has remained active in the Olympic movement, helping adopt a revolutionary concept to provide revenue to United States athletes through an Athletes Trust Fund program. In the spring of 1994, Moses received a master’s in business administration from Pepperdine University before continuing his education at University of Oxford (U.K.) to study global enterprise management, organizations and political economy. 

As an accomplished physicist, Moses masterfully utilized his knowledge of the applied sciences to perfect his athletic performance's technical aspects in his event, the 400-meter hurdles, and out-of-competition testing systems for performance-enhancing drugs in sports. As a sports administrator, Moses is best known for his skillful and courageous directives in developing policies against performance-enhancing drugs. 

In an administrative capacity, Moses has also worked with the Special Olympics, Montana State Games, Goodwill Games, and the USOPC’s Olympic Festival. Additionally, he has served on the USOPC with a delegation that lobbied U.S. Congressmen and Senators to support efforts to include a "tax check-off" that allowed taxpayers to elect to donate $1 automatically to the USOPC by simply checking off a box on the first page of the IRS 1040 tax form. 

In 2000, Moses was elected by his fellow academy members to become the inaugural chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy (London), which he held for 16 years and remains as global chair of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.