President of The Executive Council

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:

    “In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, “galaxy” is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.”
    —Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)

    “What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Within us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence, and I join in the hope that when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our Nation: That we had remembered the words of Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy, and justice.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the boss’s moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.”
    —Anne Bogan, U.S. executive secretary. As quoted in Working, book 1, by Studs Terkel (1973)

    “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)