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Exhibit A for Surowiecki is Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and CEO of the private equity firm the Blackstone Group, whose wealth now exceeds $10 billion.
The process began during his tenure as chairman of the Federal Security Service, from 1998 to 1999, when he wielded control over the secret police.
Some – such as Sergey Chemezov, the CEO of the hi-tech and defense state corporation Rostec, and the Kremlin’s “grey cardinal,” Igor Sechin, the executive chairman of the state-owned oil company Rosneft – still hold powerful positions and show little inclination to resign on their own.
This year it was Africa's turn to nominate the chairman, and they nominated Libya.
Afrinic, the body responsible for allocating Internet network addresses across Africa, is in virtual free-fall after allegations against its chairman resulted in the board’s disintegration.
The Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post reported that it would have been closed, permanently, if not for the personal intervention of Hu Jingtao, China's new president and communist party chairman.
And on January 21, Sir Robert Owen, chairman of the public inquiry, announced his verdict: It is “beyond doubt” that the FSB agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun carried out the assassination, which was “probably approved” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After I returned, I had the opportunity to join the NASA Advisory Council, as chairman of its Technology and Innovation Committee.
Last December, Maréchal-Le Pen allegedly visited Aleksey Pushkov, chairman of the Duma’s international affairs committee and a reputed Putinist hardliner.
Prior to his appointment, Bannon was the executive chairman of Breitbart News, a far-right, hyper-nationalist – indeed white supremacist – online publication.
For example, Aleksander Feldman, the chairman of the Jewish Fund for Ukraine, is a prominent parliamentarian for Yanukovych’s Party of Regions – though he condemned the deposed president after his fall.
Wall Street likes to test a new Fed chairman.
The realignment of parties and leaders is all the more remarkable because the latest developments – Ariel Sharon’s decision to leave the ruling Likud party, the defeat of Shimon Peres as the Labor party’s chairman, and Labor’s withdrawal from Sharon’s grand coalition government – were utterly unexpected.
Revisiting the Iraq WarNEW YORK – Seven years, 12 volumes of evidence, findings, and conclusions, and one executive summary later, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry, more commonly referred to as the Chilcot Report (after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot), is available for one and all to read.
Perhaps Bernanke will soon come to feel the same way, now that his honeymoon as Fed chairman is over.
In 1991, when John Major was prime minister, I was the Conservative Party chairman responsible for election planning.
Successive G-20 summits have asked its chairman, Mario Draghi (now a favorite to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as President of the European Central Bank), for updates on progress in reforming regulation, but the FSB has no authority over the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, or any of the other standard setters.
Draghi’s successor as chairman should be a full-time appointee, and the FSB should be given powers to direct the other standard setters, review the implementation of standards by individual countries, and publish the results.
Moreover, in accordance with Saudi tradition, the ruling family appoints a Prince as chairman of the General Committee overseeing the elections – a sign not of wider political participation, but of business as usual.
Sarkozy’s son, Jean, has already been elected to a major local government office at the tender age of 22.Being as ambitious as the father, Jean Sarkozy recently tried to have himself appointed as chairman of a powerful public company.
Indeed, there can no longer be any debate about the need to act, because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), of which I am chairman, has established climate change as an unequivocal reality beyond scientific doubt.
By being voted chairman of the PLO’s executive committee hours after the death of Yasser Arafat, Abbas clinched the support of the organization that represents all Palestinians, including those in the diaspora.
As chairman of the PLO, he will be under extreme pressure not to delegitimize the internationally sanctioned acts of resistance against Israeli military targets.
Jay Clayton, the chairman of US Securities and Exchange Commission, recently made it clear that he regards all cryptocurrencies as securities, with the exception of the first mover, Bitcoin, which he considers a commodity.
Gary Gensler, a former chairman of the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission who now teaches a course on blockchain (the technology underlying cryptocurrencies) at MIT, has also suggested as much.
Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s vice chairman, said recently that he expects the anticipated increase in the Fed’s policy interest rate later this year to “prove manageable” for emerging-market economies.
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, proposes to balance the budget over the next 10 years largely by slashing the program.
On more than one occasion, under both Trichet and former ECB chairman Wim Duisenberg before him, press leaks and the tit-for-tat responses they engender, made the Governing Council sound more like a cacophony of discordant voices than a serious deliberative body.
The bank’s chairman, Charles Mitchell, danced around the question of conflicts of interest between his bank’s deposit-taking and securities-underwriting activities.
The chairman of the party at the time, running the winning campaign, was me.
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