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Allan Larsson

From Sweden's entry into the European Union in 1995 to 2000, Larsson served as Director General for DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities in the European Commission under commissioner Pádraig Flynn.

Giuseppe Marotta

In May 2010, Giuseppe Marotta was officially brought to Juventus F.C. by newly elected club president Andrea Agnelli, taking over for Alessio Secco as the club's Director General.

Petr Kašpar

Petr "Kafé" Kašpar (born 26 June 1960 in Kolín) is a retired Czech football defender and currently executive currently serving as Director General of Slovak football club Slovan Bratislava.

Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum

This apology was criticised by many, including departing Director General, Greg Dyke, as overdone.

T. O. Engset

Engset received a M.Sc. in physics and mathematics (1894) at University of Oslo, after which he worked at Televerket as office worker, traffic analyst and later at age 65 director general (1921-22 (acting), 1930–35).


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Adolph Achille Gereau

One of Gereau's foster brothers, Leopold Adelbert Augustus Ffrench, moved to Mexico and a grandson Leonardo I. Ffrench serving in the diplomatic corps eventually became the Director General of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores.

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo

During the final years of Isabel II, he served in a number of posts, including a diplomatic mission to Rome, governor of Cádiz, and director general of local administration.

Bali Package

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said: "For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly delivered. We're back in business … Bali is just the beginning."

Boris Jordan

In 2001-2003 he was the Director General of the Russian TV channel NTV and also the Director General of Gazprom Media, a subsidiary media holding of Gazprom (now of Gazprombank) that owned NTV, TNT, NTV Plus, five popular radio stations (including Echo of Moscow), numerous widely circulated news and entertainment publications, and two premier movie theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Charles Fickert

A 1919 grand jury exonerated Fickert from charges made by John B. Densmore, investigator from Washington, Director General of Employment, in the framing of Mooney and Billings and for his having conspired with Pete McDonough in the freeing of wealthy defendants.

China International Copyright Expo

Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO dubbed the event the, "Copyright Olympics."

Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside

They had one daughter, Mary (1932-2014), who married Arthur Mole, son of Sir Charles Mole, director-general of the Ministry of Works.

Claude Bergeaud

From 2008 to 2010, he was the director general of the club Pau-Orthez.

Dean Godson

In 2009, the lecture was delivered by Charles Farr, Director General of the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office.

Deepak Sandhu

In her job career, prior to taking the portfolio for this prestigious position, she worked in eminent posts like, Principal Director General (Media and Communications) Press Information Bureau, Director General DD News and Director General (News) All India Radio.

Dutch Empire

The last Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, Pieter Stuyvesant, has bequeathed his name to a street, a neighborhood and a few schools in New York City, and the town of Stuyvesant.

E. Lilian Todd

Todd later worked as a secretary to the director-general of the Women's National War Relief Association during the Spanish-American War.

Edinburgh International Television Festival

One of the best remembered speeches was given in 1993 by an ill Dennis Potter, who attacked the chairman and director general of the BBC of the day by saying: "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."

Elahi Bux Soomro

He has remained Director General of Karachi Development Authority, Managing Director of S.I.T.E, Rector of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology and NED University of Engineering and Technology, and above of all he has made a record of becoming four times Chairman of Pakistan Engineering Council, each for three year term.

Eliezer Preminger

He lost his seat in the 1951 elections, and later worked as Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Development, as well as serving on the board of directors of Israel Quarries and the Phosphates Company.

Elton Welsby

It was the task of future BBC Director-General Greg Dyke to oversee the coverage and he entrusted Welsby as presenter of The Match, anchoring numerous dramatic matches over the next four years-most notably Arsenal's 2-0 win against Liverpool in the last game of the season which saw the Gunners snatch a last minute winner at Anfield.

Erskine Childers

Erskine Barton Childers (1929–1996), UN civil servant, Senior Adviser to UN Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation, son of the above

Estanislao Rodríguez-Ponga

In 2000 was appointed as Director General de Tributos in the Ministry of Finance, whose Ministry was Cristóbal Montoro.

Ettore Bernabei

In 1961, Fanfani appointed Bernabei to be the Director General of Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI), where he remained until 1974.

François Baroin

On 29 June 2011 François Baroin was appointed Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry, replacing Christine Lagarde following her appointment as Director General of the International Monetary Fund.

Giovanni Bisignani

Giovanni Bisignani (born 1946) is an Italian businessman, who was Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the International Air Transport Association from 2002 to 2011.

Godavaya

From 1994 onwards, a team of German archaeologists from the University of Bonn directed by late Prof. Dr. Helmut Roth, Dr. Udo Recker (1994-1996) and Oliver Kessler M.A. (1997 onwards) conducted joint excavations at Godavaya with the Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka, under Director General Dr. W.H. Wijeyapala and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

Gordon McVie

He was Director General of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the largest cancer charity in the UK, from 1996 to 2002.

Heineken Lokpobiri

After Nigeria performed poorly at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana, the Senate Sports Committee of which Lokpobiri was chairman issued a report which cast blame on maladministration and lack of cooperation from the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Amos Adamu.

Hsu Chun-yat

In May 2013, due to the continuing delay of Taoyuan International Airport MRT completion and the resignation of Chu Shu, former Bureau of High Speed Rail director-general, Hsu was assigned to oversee the operation of the bureau.

Hugh Green

Hugh Greene (1910–1987), British journalist and director-general of the BBC, 1960–1969

International Institute of Administrative Sciences

General Directorate is the day-to-day management body in Brussels and is led by Mr. Rolet Loretan, Director General.

Islamabad Tonight

On civil-military relations in Pakistan, he interviewed Admiral (R) Fasih Bokhari, Gen. Moinuddin Haider and Javed Jabbar, Lt. Gen. Shahid Aziz and programmes with former Army Chief General Mirza Aslam Baig, former Director General ISI Gen. (R) Asad Durrani.

The programs on war on terror and security issues of Pakistan included interviews of former Director General ISI Lt. Gen. (R) Hamid Gul, Clifford D. May, Brig (R) Mian Mahmood, Seymour Hersh.

James Short

James Shortt (born 1953), English-born Director General of the International Bodyguard Association

John Vickers

From 2000–05 he was Director General/Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading.

Kamleshwar

By late 1970s, he had made his first short TV film the “Jamuna Bazar”, near river Yamuna in Delhi, and soon switched to television scriptwriting, and eventually became the 'Additional Director General' of Doordarshan, India's national television channel, (1980–82), during his tenure, in a matter of 24 months, the entire nation was connected with television network.

Kazi M Badruddoza

Among different posts he fulfilled he was director general for the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council.

Kingston Grammar School

Jonathon Riley — Director General and Master of the Armouries

Menachem Bader

Between 1955 and 1962 he worked as Director General of the Ministry of Development.

National Offender Management Service

In January 2008, the Secretary of State for Justice announced major organisational reform which resulted in the Director-General of Her Majesty's Prison Service, Phil Wheatley, becoming the Chief Executive of NOMS, and assuming responsibility for both the National Probation Service (NPS) as well as HM Prison Service and management of contracts for private sector operation of prisons and prisoner escorting.

Norwegian Maritime Authority

The authority, subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, is located in Haugesund and led by Director General of Shipping and Navigation Olav Akselsen.

Ordnance Survey Ireland

The Engineer officers in charge of the operation were Lt-Colonel Thomas Colby, a long-serving Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, and Lieutenant Thomas Larcom.

Otto Stenroth

He served as a member of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank executive board from 1889 to 1893, and deputy director general of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank executive board from 1893 to 1906.

Paul Streeten

In the 1960s he was deputy director general of the Economic Planning Staff of the Ministry of Overseas Development and acting director of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex before becoming Warden of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.

Pete McDonough

A 1919 Grand Jury exonerated San Francisco District Attorney Charles Fickert from charges made by John B. Densmore, investigator from Washington, Director General of Employment, in the framing of Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings and for Fickert having conspired with McDonough in the freeing of wealthy defendants.

Philip Raffaelli

In 2007, he became the head of the Royal Navy Medical Service, the Medical Director General (Naval), as Surgeon Rear-Admiral, before assuming the position of Surgeon-General on 22 December 2009, taking over from Lieutenant-General Louis Lillywhite.

Pierre Goldschmidt

Mr. Pierre Goldschmidt, a Belgian nuclear scientist, retired June, 2005, as Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA), succeeded by Olli Heinonen.

Raipur Fish Hatchery and Training Centre

It also is one of three training centers directly governed by the Director General of the Department, along with Fisheries Training Institute (Chandpur) and Fisheries Training Academy in (Dhaka).

Raza Muhammad

11th Infantry Division Pakistan

Director General Inter Services Intelligence
Ministry of Defence Production
30th Infantry Brigade
Sindh Regiment
Director Military Intelligence DMI
Chief of Staff X Corps (Pakistan)

Sagarika Ghose

She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 1960 batch, erstwhile Director General of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network.

Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States

Representative Sol Bloom, the Director General of the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, first proposed that the painting be commissioned in 1937 as part of the 150th anniversary of the Constitution.

Shelmerdine

Francis Shelmerdine, British Royal Flying Corps officer and later Director-General of Civil Aviation

William Willcocks

He was serving as director general of reservoirs for Egypt when he completed his studies and plans in 1896 to construct the Aswan Low Dam, the first true storage reservoir on the river.

World Association of Nuclear Operators

James O. Ellis, President and CEO of INPO, Sergey Obozov, Director General of Concern Rosenergoatom, Henri Proglio, Chairman and CEO of EDF and Masataka Shimizu, President of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), join the WANO Governing Board.