First recruitment of the year at the World Anti-Doping Agency. The Montreal-based organization announces the arrival of Briton Ross Wenzel as general advisor. Until the end of 2021, Ross Wenzel was a partner at the Swiss law firm Kellerhals Carrard, where he acted as external legal advisor to WADA for more than 10 years. Notably, he has represented WADA and other anti-doping organizations in hundreds of doping-related cases before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The Briton joins the WADA management team, but is based in the European office in Lausanne, from where he will have overall responsibility for WADA's legal affairs. After starting his career at a London law firm, Slaughter and May (2004 to 2007), Ross Wenzel was legal advisor at Infront Sports & Media (2008 to 2010), a global leader in sports marketing based in Swiss.
