This comes after the ruling IAAF Council voted 22-1 to suspend Russia last week after allegations of "systemic" and state-supported doping were supported by a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission report. 

Fredericks is a four-time Olympic silver medal winning sprinter for Namibia who also won the 200 metres title at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart and is now a member of the International Olympic Committee.

He will be joined by Canada's Abby Hoffman, a Senior Executive in her country's Ministry of Health, and Anna Riccardi, a technical delegate for Rio 2016 who is also head of Team Services Sport and the Olympic Programme Area at the Italian National Olympic Committee.

Completing the group is Oceania Athletics Association President Geoff Gardner, a former Chief Minister, Speaker and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Norfolk Island.

Andersen, whose chairing of the panel was first announced last week, joined WADA in 2002 after previously serving as head of the Department for Ethics, Sports Medicine, and Anti-Doping at the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports.

He has also served as a member of the the Council of Europe’s Anti-Doping Convention Monitoring Group.

The quintet will "verify the reforms programme in Russia to enable the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) to gain reacceptance for IAAF membership".

“I’m honoured to have been asked by [IAAF President] Sebastian Coe to head the verification process," said Andersen.

"I have devoted my life to clean sport and it’s on behalf of the innocent athletes who are Russia’s athletics future that we begin our task to ensure that fair and honest competition is guaranteed.”

Specific verification criteria will be set after consultation with WADA, who are holding an Executive Committee meeting today in Colorado Springs where Russia will be on the agenda.

ARAF general secretary Mikhail Butov has set February 14 as a target date for the suspension to be lifted.

“After consultation with WADA, we will set the verification criteria," Coe added.

"The five-person inspection team, led by a renowned anti-doping expert Rune Andersen, has an extraordinary amount of experience to ensure ARAF meets the criteria and is eligible to once again enter athletes into international competition.”

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