Executive Committee

Executive Committee may refer to:

  • The Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, a government body in the United Kingdom 1922–1972
  • The Northern Ireland Executive, a government body in the United Kingdom
  • Northern Ireland Executive (1973), under the Sunningdale Agreement
  • Any executive (government)
  • (in Russia and the Soviet Union) a type of executive power (locally abbreviated as Ispolkom) that in March 1917 replaced the governorate system of government, see Russian Provisional Government
  • EXCOMM (Executive Committee of the National Security Council) Kennedy advisors during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Common abbreviations
  • ExCo (used both for "Executive committee" and "Executive council").
See also
  • Executive committee, a more general discussion of organizational structure
  • Central Executive Committee (disambiguation), a related term

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    “When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

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