Finland's Sari Essayah, a former race walker, who was winner of the 10 kilometres at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart.
The 49-yer-old is the head of the Finnish Christian Democrats party and unsuccessfully stood for the President of Finland in 2012.
Essayah will be joined by Tricia Smith, the 59-year-old President of the Canadian Olympic Committee.
She is a former rower who was Olympic silver medallist in the coxless pairs at Los Angeles and Commonwealth Games champion in the coxless four at Edinburgh 1986.
The list of new female candidates is 45-year-old Auvita Rapilla, secretary general of the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee, who was the winner of the IOC Oceania Women in Sport award in 2009.