Career
Wu Ching-kuo wasn"t a boxer but a basketball player in his youth. Later he worked as an architect. Wu is also Chinese Taipei"s representative on the International Olympic Committee (International Olympic Committee) since 1988.
He was serving as part of the evaluation commission for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
International Boxing Association
When serving as an AIBA committee chairman, he proposed reforms such as increased marketing, new television contracts and the installation of scoreboards to allow fans to see how judges score fights in real time. After his election he let Price Waterhouse Coopers check the AIBA finances.
Turkish General Secretary Caner Doganeli was soon suspended in February 2007 and the ethics commission headed by François Carrard is now discussing financial irregularities charges against Doganeli. Wu hasn"t yet fired the very controversial Uzbek AIBA-Vice President Gafur Rakhimov who had been banned from entering Australia in 2000 after the Sydney Morning Herald broke the news that he"s a drug tsar, a mafia boss and controls crime in Central Asia.
Candidacy for International Olympic Committee President
On May 23, 2013, Wu Ching-kuo confirmed that he would run for President of the International Olympic Committee. He has served as an International Olympic Committee member since 1988.
At the 125th International Olympic Committee Session in Buenos Aires he lost the election to Thomas Bach. As the president of AIBA, Wu believes Cuba’s historic first professional boxing bout in more than 50 years proves yet again to International Olympic Committee members that he can deliver. He was proud to have been the facilitator of engineering the Cuban return to the professional boxing circuit.
During Wu Ching-kuo"s seventh trip to Africa in less than 10 years that he has established an excellent relationship with his African colleagues since he became an International Olympic Committee member 25 years ago, the longest tenure of any of the six hopefuls, he said “The Olympic Games have taken place on all five continents but Africa, and therefore I will do my utmost to help bring about an African Games.”.