The Council of the UNU is the governing board of the University and is composed of 24 members who are appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations with the concurrence of the Director-General of UNESCO.

the Rector, two representatives designated by the UN Secretary-General and by the Director-General of the UNESCO, the Rector of the United Nations University, two representatives designated by the Government of the host country and the Chancellor of UPEACE.

In addition, the Council comrpises ten representatives of the academic community or other persons eminent in the field of peace and security appointed by the Secretary-General of the UN in consultation with the Director-General of the UNESCO.

Huxley, a lifelong internationalist with a concern for education, got involved in the creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), and became the organization's first Director-General in 1946.

In September 2009 she ran for the post of UNESCO Director-General but lost to the Bulgarian candidate Irina Bokova.

* Kōichirō Matsuura ( b. 1937 ), a Japanese public servant and current Director-General of UNESCO

According to UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura, a meeting of ambassadors from the 54 member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) was conducted.

Vittorino Veronese ( 1910 – 1986 ) was an Italian lawyer, who was Director-General of UNESCO from 1958 to 1961.

A member of UNESCO ’ s Executive Board from 1952 to 1956 and its Chairman from 1956 to 1958, he was appointed Director-General in 1958 but resigned on health grounds in 1961.

Hoggart was Assistant Director-General of UNESCO ( 1971 – 1975 ) and finally Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London ( 1976 – 1984 ), after which he retired from formal academic life.

From 1995 to 1997 she also held the position as Special Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO for its Culture for Peace program.

The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness on intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural expressions.

The nominations are evaluated by a panel of experts in intangible heritage, including specialized non-government organizations ( NGOs ), and are further scrutinized by a jury, whose 18 members have previously been selected by the UNESCO Director-General.

* Vladimir Yerofeyev ( ambassador ), Soviet ambassador to Iran ( 1970s ); Assistant Director-General for Administration of UNESCO ( 1975 )

Irina Bokova, the new Director-General of UNESCO, has proposed a universal vision, which she has called the “ new humanism ”; a vision open to the entire human community, providing a humanist response to globalization and crisis, aiming at the safeguarding of social cohesion and the preservation of peace.

* Message of Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day-23 April 2011 ( PDF )

Famous MGIMO alumni include President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Russia ’ s Ministers of Foreign Affais Sergei Lavrov, Andrei Kozyrev, OSCE Secretary General and foreign minister of Slovakia Ján Kubiš, and Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova.

The program is administered by a body known as the International Advisory Committee, or IAC, whose 14 members are appointed by the UNESCO Director-General.

He is the former Director-General of UNESCO.

After one year as the Chairperson of UNESCO ’ s World Heritage Committee, he became UNESCO ’ s ninth Director-General on 12 November 1999.

* 1999 – 2009: UNESCO Director-General ( elected to a six-year term on 15 November 1999 ; re-elected in 2005 )

Posts held by Mr Matsuura include those of Director-General of the Economic Co-operation Bureau of Japan ’ s Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( 1988 ); Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( 1990 ); and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs ( 1992 – 1994 ).

Later Director-General Greg Dyke, profiling Reith in 2007, noted that the term Reithian has entered the dictionary to denote a style of management, particularly with relation to broadcasting.

‘ And at the Third Food Conference in Delhi on the 5th to the 8th July, … the suggestion that “ the only reason why people are starving in Bengal is that there is hoarding ” was greeted at the Conference by the other Provinces with applause .’ Similarly, some officials in the Government of India refused to accept the evidence on the ground, preferring their own idiosyncratic interpretations of the market: as late as November 1943, ‘ The Government of India would admit no intrinsic shortage in Bengal in the Spring of 1943 and, even in November, at the height of the famine, the Director-General of Food in the Council of State said that “ the major trouble in Bengal has been not so much an intrinsic shortage of essential foodgrains as a breakdown of public confidence .’ On 19 October 1943, when the famine was at its peak, Wavell noted in his journal “ On the food situation Linlithgow outgoing Viceroy says chief factor morale. panic hoarding ” For hoarding to have created the amount of hunger and death recorded if there had, indeed, been adequate supplies, it would have been necessary that the richest 10 % of Bengal's population, the only ones who could afford it, to lay in two years ' rice supply for themselves, in addition to the stocks accumulated in the previous two years, and to keep it in stock until the end of the war, while their neighbours starved.

Chiang was succeeded as President by Vice President Yen Chia-kan and as Kuomintang party leader by his son Chiang Ching-kuo, who retired Chiang Kai-shek's title of Director-General and instead assumed the position of Chairman.

Brundtland was elected Director-General of the World Health Organization in May 1998.

In 1998, he ran for the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation and was elected to this position on 22 July 1999.

Mike Moore was the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 1999 to 2002, his term coincided with momentous changes in the global economy and multilateral trading system.

Peter Stuyvesant ( c. 1612 – August 1672 ), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

In May 1645 he was selected by the Dutch West India Company to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of the New Netherland colony.

UNRRA was headed by a Director-General, and governed by a Council ( composed of representatives of all state parties ) with a Central Committee representing the United States, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union.

Andrija Stampar was the Assembly's first president, and G. Brock Chisholm was appointed Director-General of WHO, having served as Executive Secretary during the planning stages.

In 1989, he was appointed Director-General of the CERN Laboratory.

His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General in 1953 through 1959.

In 1952, he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Defense, and the following year, he became Director-General.

Chiang Kai-shek died in April 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency by Yen Chia-kan while his son Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang ( opting to take the title " Chairman " rather than the elder Chiang's title of " Director-General ").

As Chiang Kai-shek entered his final years, he gradually gave more responsibilities to his son, and when he died in April 1975, the presidency was turned over to Yen Chia-kan and Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang ( he opted for the title " Chairman " rather than the elder Chiang's title of " Director-General ").

At this meeting, the Director-General of the ISI at that time, Lieutenant-General Akhtar Abdur Rahman advocated for an idea of covert operation in Afghanistan by arming the Islamic extremist, and was loudly heard saying: " Kabul must burn!

The Prime Minister's personal responsibility for the Service was delegated to the Home Secretary Maxwell-Fyfe in 1952, with a directive issued by the Home Secretary setting out the role and objectives of the Director-General.

Following the 2009 coup d ' état, former Battalion 3 – 16 member Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía became Director-General of Immigration and Billy Joya was de facto President Roberto Micheletti's security advisor.

Sikakes, once an island, was part of the territory purchased by Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant in 1658.

The portion of that land that included the future Hudson County was purchased from the Hackensack branch of the Lenni-Lenape in 1658 by New Netherland colony Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, and became part of Pavonia, New Netherland.

According to the written judgment, Chen said that the intelligence about Soong's activity was submitted to him by Bureau of Investigation Director-General Yeh Cherng-maw.

Having reached the required number of instruments in order for the treaty to enter into force ( 40 ) on 31 March 2004, on which date 13 instruments ( including the European Union ) were deposited with the Director-General of FAO, the date of entry into force was on 29 June 2004.

Soon after the conclusion of hostilities Monash was appointed Director-General of Repatriation and Demobilisation, heading a newly created department to carry out the repatriation of the Australian troops.