The General Congress elects the President, three Vice Presidents and seven Council Members for a four or five-year term. The General Secretary is a non-voting member of the IIHF Council. Click on the links below for biographies of the council members.

Beate Grupp  Close Biography
Beate Grupp became one of the two first women to join the IIHF Council at the IIHF Semi-Annual Congress in 2003. She was most recently re elected at the 2012 General Congress in Tokyo, Japan.

Grupp, born on April 5, 1965 in Geislingen, Germany, served as the team doctor of Germany’s national women’s team since for many years. Grupp started practicing medicine in 1992 and in 1995 went on to get her degree with a Sports Medicine emphasis.

Currently, she works in Geislingen with her private practice where she focuses on physical therapy, sports medicine and orthopedics. She speaks English, French and German.