PERSON: Sepp Blatter

Joseph “Sepp” Blatter (born 10 March 1936) is a Swiss football administrator who serves as the eighth and current president of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association).
He was elected on 8 June 1998, succeeding João Havelange. He was re-elected as president in 2002, 2007 and 2011, and is a candidate in the 2015 election. Blatter was born in Visp, Canton Valais, Switzerland. He studied in Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, before he received a degree in business and economics from the University of Lausanne in 1959. Blatter has had a long and varied career, including posts such as Head of Public Relations of the Valaisan Tourist Board in his native Switzerland, as well as general secretary of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation. He was Director of Sports Timing and Relations of Longines S.A., and was involved in the organization of the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games.
Blatter has been married three times and has one daughter. Since 1975, Blatter has been working at FIFA, first as technical director (1975–1981), then general secretary (1981–1998), before his election as FIFA president in 1998.[7] He was re-elected as head of FIFA in 2002, and was re-elected unopposed for another four years on 31 May 2007, even though only 66 of 207 FIFA members nominated him.