Lydia Nsekera, the president of the Burundi Football Association, will be installed as the co-opted executive committee member at the 62nd FIFA Congress this week with the formal election of a woman on the committee to follow at next year's Congress, football's governing body said in a statement.
Nsekera, 45, is a member of the women's football and the women's World Cup committees and is also on the organising committee for the Olympic Football Tournaments having been part of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 2009.
"In view of this, the executive committee decided to hold an extraordinary meeting to designate both chairmen together once the FIFA Congress has approved the relevant amendments to the FIFA Statutes, which will come into force 60 days after the Congress," a FIFA statement said.
There was no such delay for Domenico Scala, a Swiss-Italian business executive, who was appointed as the independent chairman of FIFA's Audit and Compliance Committee, with the appointment to be ratified at Congress.
In other matters, FIFA said its players' insurance programme was being extended to cover the Olympic tournament.
It also named six cities to host next year's Confederations Cup in Brazil, the warm-up tournament for the 2014 World Cup finals.
