 Willem-Alexander is interested in sports and international water management issues.Until his accession to the throne, he was a member of the International Olympic Committee (1998–2013), chairman of the Advisory Committee on Water to the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment (2004–2013), and chairman of the Secretary-General of the United Nations' Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (2006–2013).Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand was born on 27 April 1967 at the (now known as the University Medical Center Utrecht) in Utrecht, Netherlands.