Carey Brown has been appointed by Herb Elliott, chairman of JADCO, ahead of a visit from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to carry out an audit of Jamaica's drug testing programme in the build-up to London 2012, where they won 12 medals, including four gold.

But Brown is unlikely to play much of a role in the visit from the three-person WADA team because he is currently on jury service and will not be able to take up his new role until that is completed.

Brown, a graduate of the University of West Indies in pure and applied chemistry, will succeed Renee Anne Shirley, whose damaging allegations that JADCO had carried out just one out-of-competition test from February 2012 to the start of the Olympics in London in July have prompted the WADA investigation.

Former Jamaican sprinter Cathy Rattray Samuels had been acting in an interim role since May following the sacking of Shirley but had left in August. 

Former world 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell is one of several Jamaicans currently under investigation after testing positive for banned drugs