Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

* A Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) who may also be Chairman of the Board

The CEO is also often the Chairman of the Board, especially in closely held corporations and also often in public corporations.

* Director or Member of the Board of Directors – high-level official with a fiduciary responsibility of overseeing the operation of a corporation and elects or removes officers of a corporation ; nominally, Directors, other than the Chairman are usually not considered to be employees of the company per se, although they may receive compensation, often including benefits ; in publicly held companies.

* Vice Chair or Vice Chairman – officer of the Board of Directors who may stand in for the Chairman in his / her absence.

One of Dijkstra's sidelines was serving as Chairman of the Board of the fictional Mathematics Inc., a company that he imagined having commercialized the production of mathematical theorems in the same way that software companies had commercialized the production of computer programs.

Ben Bernanke ( lower-right ), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on February 10, 2009.

The Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors are appointed by the President from among the sitting Governors.

On July 23, GM announced its new Board of Directors: Dan Akerson, David Bonderman, Robert D. Krebs, Patricia F. Russo and Ed Whitacre ( GM Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer ).

* Daniel Akerson – Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board of Directors

On August 12, 2010 GM announced that Whitacre would relinquish the CEO position effective September 1, 2010 and that of Chairman of the Board at the end of the year, to be replaced in those functions by current board member Dan Akerson.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman said he " would not think that any hedge fund or private equity fund would become a systemically-critical firm individually ".

His sister, Mary Ellen Edgerton, was the wife of L. Welch Pogue ( 1899 – 2003 ) a pioneering aviation attorney and Chairman of the old Civil Aeronautics Board.

Before announcing his run for Governor, Lynch was serving as Chairman of the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees.

He has been a member of Carlyle Group's European Advisory Board since 1998 and was appointed Chairman of Carlyle Europe in May 2001.

He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Heckmann Corporation, a water sector company, since the company's inception and serves as Chairman of the company's Compensation and Nominating & Governance Committees.

He also served as the bank's first Chairman of the Board.

On March 25, 2003, Kemp was selected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of USA Football, a national advocacy group for amateur football created by the National Football League ( NFL ) and the NFL Players Association.

In 1971, INDECO, MINDECO, and FINDECO were brought together under an omnibus parastatal, the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation ( ZIMCO ), to create one of the largest companies in sub-Saharan Africa, with Francis Kaunda as Chairman of the Board.

Leszek Miller started his political career as an activist of the Socialist Youth Union, where he held the position of Chairman of the Plant Board, soon becoming a member of the Town Committee.

The Board consists of a Chairman appointed by the Minister and 10 other members.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

* Mao Zedong, Chairman 1943 – 1976

* Hua Guofeng, Chairman 1976 – 1981

* Hu Yaobang, Chairman 1981 – 1982

* Ralph Lauren – Chairman and CEO of Polo Ralph Lauren ( dropped out )

Krulak has served as the Senior Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MBNA Europe ( 2001 – 2005 ) and was based at the Chester campus in the UK.

* 1953 – Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve

* 2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d ' état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.

* 1903 – Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( d. 1983 )

* Chairman, Military Software Task Force ( 1985 – 87 )

* Stephen J. Girsky – GM Vice Chairman, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Global Product Planning and Global Purchasing and Supply Chain

In the Soviet Union this position carried such titles as Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR ; Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ; and in the case of the Soviet Russia Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets ( pre-1922 ), and Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian SFSR ( 1956 – 1966 ).

Eamon Ryan – Leader, Catherine Martin – Deputy Leader, Roderic O ' Gorman – Chairman, Martin Nolan – Treasurer, Catherine Fravalo – Deputy National Coordinator, Micheal Callaghan – Young Greens, Damian Connon, Roderic O ' Gorman, Claire Bailey, Dominick Donnelly – National Coordinator, Steven Agnew, Marianne Butler, Darcy Longergan, Trish Forde-Brennan and Stan Nangle.

The Chairman of the NPC is the presiding officer of the legislative body, a position that is similar but not entirely analogous to that of a speaker of congress.

Barangay Council, the legislature of the smallest political unit in the Philippines composing of 7 regular members excluding the presiding officer that is the Punong Barangay a. k. a. Barangay Chairman / Captain and its one ex-officio member.

However, when the House meets in the " Committee of the Whole ", the Woolsack remains unoccupied, and the presiding officer, the Chairman or Deputy Chairman, occupies a Chair at the front of the table of the House.

In May 2001 Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican party to become an Independent and Senator Inouye became Chairman, presiding over the 15-member Committee

Until 1992, the Chairman of Committees was known as the Deputy Speaker only when presiding over the House.

Currently, Beale is presiding Chairman of the Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure.

As set in Article 101 of the Russian Constitution, the Federation Council “ shall elect among its deputies the Chairman of the Council .” Some of the Chairman ’ s official duties include presiding over sessions, formulating and introducing draft agendas, issuing orders and consulting with the Council ’ s various committees, acting as the upper house ’ s official representative in the Federal Assembly, and signing resolutions to be passed forth to the president or the State Duma.

He was also the first Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria, presiding the Constituent Assembly and the 1st Grand National Assembly in 1879.

At the presiding table, from left to right: Mr. S. P. Sotiroff, Assistant to the Director, U. N. Narcotics Division ; Dr. Sten Martens, Director, U. N. Narcotics Division ; Mr. Vittorio Winspeare-Guicciardi, Director-General U. N. Office at Geneva ; Mr. John E. Ingersoll ( United States ), Chairman of the Session ; and Dr. Istvan Bayer, Secretary.

Rep. Charles Rangel ( D-N. Y .), at the time presiding as Chairman over the proceedings, claimed that the " amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended, was agreed to.

The Constitution does not ascribe any formal role to the Chief Justice other than as an ex-officio Chairman of the Judicial and Bar Council and as the presiding officer in any impeachment trial of the President.

The Chairman is responsible for convening and presiding at all meetings of the Council, but whenever the office of Chairman is vacant, the Council may elect any member to act as Chairman.