Schell's father Orville Hickok Schell, Jr., was a prominent lawyer who headed the New York City Bar Association, chaired the human rights group Americas Watch from its founding in 1981 until his death in 1987, co-founded Helsinki Watch, forerunner to Human Rights Watch, and became the namesake of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.

In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight ( now the Rio Group ), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.

He chaired the United States Delegation at the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and was the lead U. S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference until he resigned from the Administration in late 1997 to accept Ted Turner ’ s invitation to be President of the newly created United Nations Foundation.

A certified private pilot, Robertson was a longtime member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, working his way through the ranks in prominence and eventually co-founding the EAA's Young Eagles program, which he chaired from its 1992 inception to 1994 ( succeeded by former test pilot Gen. Chuck Yeager ).

Following the conclusion of these talks, he chaired the Israeli delegation to peace talks with Jordan, which concluded successfully with the 1994 peace treaty with Jordan.

Since 1994, he has been a member of the European Parliament, and chaired the Committee on Development and Cooperation ( 1997 – 1999 ), the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ( 1999 – 2002 ) and the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport.

Bumpers chaired the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship from 1987 until 1995, when the Republican Party took control of the Senate for a dozen years following the 1994 elections.

* 1994: Celebration of the bicentennial chaired by President François Mitterrand

He chaired the Conservative Party from 1994 to 2004.

In 1994 and until her death in 1996, Jordan chaired the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform, which advocated increased restriction of immigration, called for all U. S. residents to carry a national identity card and increased penalties on employers that violated U. S. immigration regulations.

The 1994 WFC, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, was chaired by Tom Hanlon.

PUNR had ministers in the cabinet chaired by Nicolae Văcăroiu from March 1994 to September 1996.

Before running for the United States House of Representatives, Tauscher was active in Democratic circles as a fundraiser and also chaired Dianne Feinstein's successful 1992 and 1994 Senate campaigns.

Obey served as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee from 2007 to 2011 ; he briefly chaired this committee from 1994 to 1995 and served as its ranking Democrat from 1995 to 2007.

He also chaired the government's Deregulation Task Force from 1994 to 1997.

Lee also chaired the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) since its establishment in 1991, and retained his chairmanship when the group was transformed into the Democratic Party in 1994.

Lord Nolan chaired the Committee on Standards in Public Life from 1994 to 1997.

From July 1993 to June 1994, Walker was Chief of the Station / Exploration Support Office, Flight Crew Operations Directorate, after which he chaired the JSC Safety Review Board.

He chaired Kringkastingsrådet from 1990 to 1994, and has held various political offices.

Willem Drees and Jan Peter Balkenende both chaired the most cabinets ( 4 ) and Ruud Lubbers was prime minister the longest ( between 1982 and 1994 ).

At its meeting in Essen in 1994, the European Council endorsed a list of 14 TEN-T ‘ specific ’ projects, drawn up by a group chaired by then Commission Vice-President Henning Christophersen.

He chaired a parliamentary task force that examined banking and small business policy in 1994.

The 1994 WFC, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, was chaired by Tom Hanlon.

DeConcini also served on the Select Intelligence Committee and was Chairman of the Committee in 1993 and 1994 and also chaired the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( Helsinki Commission ).

He was a founding member of the Manitoba Entertainment Complex Group ( MEC ) in 1994, and chaired the successful World Hockey Junior Championship in 1999.

On 27 – 28 November 1995, while Spain held the Presidency of the Council of the EU, Solana convened and chaired the Barcelona Conference.

Comitology in the European Union refers to a process by which EU law is modified or adjusted and takes place within " comitology committees " chaired by the European Commission.

* 2006-2007: Member of the Oxford University Taskforce on UK Energy, Development Assistance and Foreign Policy, chaired by Chris Patten, chancellor of Oxford University and former EU Commissioner and Secretary of State for Development

He also chaired the delegation to the EU – Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and was a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and the delegation for relations with Israel.

She was a member of the Danish Parliament Technology Council ( 1986-1991 ); of the Norwegian Research Council dealing with IT and society ( 1984-1992 ). She was a member of the European Commission Information Society Technologies Advisory Group ( ISTAG ) from 1999 to 2002 ; chaired the EU COSTA4 Group that examined the relationship between technology and society ( 1992-1997 ) and contributed to the VALUE think-tank that focused on the interaction between research and society ( 1993-1994 ).

Schmitt chaired the Delegation to the EU – Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.

In 1996, the Runnymede Trust established the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, chaired by Professor Gordon Conway, the vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex.

Initiator of a French law in 1971 ( la formation professionnelle continue – FPC ) requiring firms to set aside part of their profits for educational opportunities for their employees, he also chaired a UNESCO Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century from 1993 to 1996 whose final report was published as Learning: the Treasure Within.

Cochran served as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference ( caucus ) from 1991 to 1996, and is its only former chair currently in the Senate ; he chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2003 to 2005.

In 1996, Coleman chaired Wellstone's Senate re-election campaign.

As minister he chaired the European Union Council of Trade Ministers during Ireland's six-month Presidency of the European Council as well as co-chairing a round of the World Trade Organization talks in 1996.

He chaired the Federal Quality Institute in 1991, and was chairman of the Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance established by Congress in 1996.

The 1996 WFC, held in Schaumburg, Illinois, was chaired by Nancy Ford, Phyllis Weinberg and Tina Jens.

In the early 1980s he chaired the radio comedy show The News Quiz, returning to the show in 1996 for another ten years.

While he chaired the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support ( called the Subcommittee on Human Resources during his watch ) beginning with the 107th Congress, he played a leading role in the reauthorization and expansion of the 1996 welfare reform law.

In 1996 she requested and received the creation of the first new California State Assembly Standing Committee in nine years, the Committee on International Trade, which she chaired until being termed out in 1998.

As a member of the former, he became a leading critic of the Clinton administration regarding the Whitewater scandal, and during 1995 and 1996 chaired the hearings-heavy Senate Special Whitewater Committee.

From 1995 – 1996 he chaired the Constitution Review Group, an independent expert group established by the government, which published its report in July 1996.

From 1988 to 1990 he conducted the Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster and in 1996 he chaired the Public Inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School.

From 1980 to 1996 he chaired the select committee on Member's Interests, having to field embarrassing questions about the business activities of Mrs Thatcher ’ s son Mark.

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From 1996 to 1996 he chaired the governmental Freedom of Expression Commission in Norway and became Chairman of The Freedom of Expression Foundation in 2000.

He was a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University from 1958 until his retirement in 1996 ; he chaired the department from 1989 to 1992.

In the 1996 election, the first conducted under MMP, Quigley was returned to Parliament as an ACT list MP and chaired the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee during the next three years.