He has also been an IETF security area director, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, chair of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, a board member of the Internet Society and numerous other Internet-related volunteer positions.

Its previous Director, Professor Judith Rees, is also chair of the school's Grantham Institute on Climate Change, an adviser to the World Bank as well as sitting on the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation and the International Scientific Advisory Council ( ISAC ).

He is now vice chair of ISO Technical Committee 154 US Technical Advisory Group ( ISO TC154 US TAG ), and Editor of document ISO8601 Representation of Dates and Times.

He is also the chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for ACM Queue, a magazine he helped found when he was President of the ACM.

In 2008-2011 he served as chair of the Science Advisory Council of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future.

He is emeritus member of the board of directors of Human Rights Watch, and serves as founding chair of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch / Middle East.

* Select Committee on Religious Offences in England and Wales Written Evidence Submission from Searchlight Information Services by Gerry Gable, vice chair of the Independent Advisory Group to the Diversity Directorate of the Metropolitan Police Service at Scotland Yard.

The Sound Archives is governed by an Advisory Panel which consists of chair Tainui Stephens ( a freelance producer, director and writer ), Russell Brown ( a media commentator ), Bill Francis ( the General Manager of Talk Programming at The Radio Network ), Nicki Reece ( the Station Manager at Plains FM ) and Chris Szekely ( the Chief Librarian at Alexander Turnbull Library ).

After the military coup in 1992, he was asked to chair the National Advisory Council, one of the mechanisms set up by the military to alleviate the restoration of constitutional rule, including the drafting of a new constitution for Sierra Leone.

In July 2001, Ebbers was proposed as the chair for the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Lang was made a life peer as ' Baron Lang of Monkton ' of Merrick and the Rhinns of Kells in Dumfries and Galloway in September 1997 and is currently chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.

Lang is chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.

Near the end of his second term, Caperton was the 1996 chair of the Democratic Governor's Association, served on the National Governor's Association executive committee, and was a member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee on U. S. Trade.

In 1995, Pennsylvania Republican congressman Curt Weldon, then the chairman of the House Military Research and Development Subcommittee, nominated Baxter to chair the Civilian Advisory Board for Ballistic Missile Defense.

She is an oceanographer, explorer, author, lecturer, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, leader of the Sustainable Seas Expeditions, council chair for the Harte Research Institute for the Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A & M-Corpus Christi, founder and chairman of the Deep Search Foundation, and finally the chair of the Advisory Council for the Ocean in Google Earth.

In 2004, she was appointed chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service ( CAFCASS ).

He worked as a high school teacher in rural Manitoba from 1976 to 1979 and later became a chartered financial consultant, serving as chair of the Canadian Insurance Agents Advisory Council ( Sunlife ).

In the same year, he was also appointed as chair of the Refugee Resettlement Advisory Council, which advises the Australian government on resettling refugees in Australia.

He was the founding chair of TIFF, the Toronto international film festival, past chair of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, past chair of IMAGINE, a national philanthropic organization that promotes giving and volunteering, Chair of the Skydome ( now the Rogers Stadium ) during its construction phase

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

The Arkansas Education Standards Committee, chaired by Clinton's wife, attorney and Legal Services Corporation chair Hillary Rodham Clinton, succeeded in reforming the education system, transforming it from the worst in the nation into one of the best.

In Congress, he was chair of the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, the Committee on Indian Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In August 1833, after being elected to this fifth term, Polk became the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.

At the time of Cannon's election the Speaker of the House concurrently held the chair of the Rules Committee, which determined under what rules and restrictions bills could be debated, amended, and voted on, and in some cases whether they would be allowed on the floor at all.

As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and, in May 1826, joined with Senator Thomas Hart Benton in reporting on executive patronage.

The chair of the State CMC is chosen and removed by the full NPC while the other members are chosen by the NPC Standing Committee.

Indeed, Stevens's definition of measurement was put forward in response to the British Ferguson Committee, whose chair, A. Ferguson, was a physicist.

She was a Patron of the International Red Cross Committee, honorary chair of the British United Aid to China Fund, and First Honorary Member of the Bill of Rights Commemorative Society.

He has also served as the chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Professional Practices Committee.

The president of the National Academy of Sciences is the chair of both the Governing Board and Executive Committee ; the president of the National Academy of Engineering is vice chair.

Once the convention came to order, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, chair of the Committee on Resolutions, read the proposed platform to cheers by many delegates ; the reading of the pro-gold minority report attracted less applause.

He continued in this new term to expect the Chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee, but again this was misplaced, due in large part to his shortcomings as a parliamentarian ; he was given the chair of the Banking and Currency Committee, but regretted having lost the Military Affairs Chairmanship.

It is named for William L. Wilson, Representative from West Virginia, chair of the U. S. House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland, both Democrats.

In September 1922, the Fordney – McCumber Tariff bill ( named after Joseph Fordney, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Porter McCumber, chair of the Senate Finance Committee ) was signed by President Warren Harding.

Leading the merger effort were Elmer Kelm, the head of the Minnesota Democratic Party and founding chairman of the DFL party ; Elmer Benson, effectively the head of the Farmer-Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction ; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that accomplished the union and then went on to chair its first state convention.

Throughout 1970, Ellsberg covertly attempted to persuade a few sympathetic U. S. Senators — among them J. William Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and George McGovern, a leading opponent of the war — to release the papers on the Senate floor, because a Senator could not be prosecuted for anything he said on the record before the Senate.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

It sometimes ended in death-like trances with many lying exhausted and panting on chair and floor.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

There was a man's jacket on the chair and a straw hat on the table.

Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.

Then she went back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water.

Those who are too weak, should climb on the chair and, starting at the top of the chin, let themselves slowly down.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Is Bill's broken a chair, dominant stress will usually be on the complement a chair.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

He rocked back in the chair, knee locked against stomach, his beady eyes fixed on Matson.