President of the Executive Council may refer to:
- The Governor-General or Governors of the Australian states in Australia and New Zealand, although the actual title is not used
- A Premier of a Canadian Province (see Premier (Canada))
- The President of the Federal Executive Council, the full title of the Yugoslav prime minister from 1953 to 1992
- The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, Head of government of the Irish Free State (1922–37)
- The President of the Executive Yuan, otherwise known as the Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- As a former Commonwealth of Nations member, Hong Kong also has a President of the Executive Council in the form of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Prior to 1997, the role was played by the Governor of Hong Kong
- See also
- Vice-President of the Executive Council
Famous quotes containing the words president of the, president of, president, executive and/or council:
“The President of the United States ... should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
“I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment—the sober second thought—of the people.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
—Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)