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The term director-general (plural directors-general, as "general" is postpositive) is a title given the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution.
In the European Commission, each department (called a directorate-general) is headed by a non-political director-general. This is roughly equivalent to a British permanent secretary.
In most Australian states, the director-general is the most senior civil servant in any government department, reporting only to the democratically-elected minister representing that department. In Victoria and the Australian Government, the equivalent position is the secretary of the department.
In Canada, a director general is not the highest civil servant in a department. Directors general typically report to a more senior civil servant, e.g. at the assistant deputy minister level. Deputy ministers are the highest level bureaucrat in the Canadian civil service. At school boards in Quebec, the director general is the highest-ranking employee.
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP (born 1947 in Hong Kong) is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan was elected by the Executive Board of WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994-2003), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003-2006).
Margaret Chan was initially trained as a Home Economics teacher at the Northcote College of Education in Hong Kong. She then earned her B.A. degree in Home Economics and her M.D. degree at the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and 1977, respectively, as well as her MSc (Public Health) degree at the National University of Singapore in 1985. In 1997, she was given the distinction for the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Actors: Katie Malone (actress), Luke Thompson (writer), Luke Thompson (producer), Michael Mazur (actor), Michael Mazur (director), Michael Mazur (producer), Luke Thompson (director), Burton De Wilde (editor), Clara Nellist (producer), Ellie Davies (producer), Burton De Wilde (producer), Ellie Davies (actress), Clara Nellist (actress), Lee Allison (actor), Ryan Reece (actor),
Plot: A group of twenty somethings who work at a Large Hedron Collider (LHC) find themselves in an emergency situation as a result of a problem with the accelerator. The maintenance crew have been transformed into zombies after the particle accelerator malfunctions. The students must try to evade the zombies while running through CERN's maintenance tunnels.
Keywords: cern, physics, zombieActors: Emilio Linder (actor), José Manuel Jiménez (editor), Eduardo MacGregor (actor), Víctor Clavijo (actor), Rafael Álvarez (producer), José Villalobos (composer), Teresa Lozano (actress), Ignacio Monge (producer), María Ballesteros (actress), Alejandro Jornet (actor), Frank Feys (actor), Javier Tolosa (actor), Hui Chi Chiu (actress), Dionisio Pérez (director), Dionisio Pérez (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jordi Bosch (actor), Àlex Brendemühl (actor), Piero Verzello (actor), Marisa Paredes (actress), Candela Peña (actress), Agustí Villaronga (writer), Agustí Villaronga (director), Secun de la Rosa (actor), Frank Gutiérrez (editor), Vicenta N'Dongo (actress), Cruz Rodríguez (producer), Enric Majó (actor), Roger Casamajor (actor), Marina Gatell (actress), Sergi Belbel (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Josep Maria Pou (actor), Carme Elias (actress), Eduard Farelo (actor), Anna Azcona (actress), Sergi Schaaff (actor), Mercè Martínez (actress), Marta Balletbò-Coll (director), Marta Balletbò-Coll (actress), Marta Balletbò-Coll (writer), Francesca Piñón (actress), Leslie Charles (actress), Montserrat Gausachs (actress), Babou Cham (actor), Ana Simón Cerezo (writer), Ana Simón Cerezo (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Constantino Romero (actor), Concha Velasco (actress), Guillermo Montesinos (actor), Carlos Iglesias (actor), Ángel de Andrés López (actor), José Manuel Lorenzo (actor), Pedro Piqueras (actor), Nuria González (actress), Pepe Oneto (actor), Irene Domínguez (director), Josela Pacheco (producer), Rafael Moral (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: María Elena Flores (actress), Juan Jesús Valverde (actor), Florinda Chico (actress), José Vivó (actor), José Coronado (actor), Saturno Cerra (actor), Jack Taylor (actor), José María Caffarel (actor), Joaquín Hinojosa (actor), Juan Diego (actor), Carlos Lucena (actor), Antonio Ferrandis (actor), Antonio Gamero (actor), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (actress), Miguel Rellán (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jason Douglas (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Vic Mignogna (actor), Greg Ayres (actor), Kerrigan Mahan (actor), Andy McAvin (actor), Carl Macek (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Michael Forest (actor), Matt Greenfield (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Daisuke Gôri (actor), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (actor), Simon Prescott (actor), Rob Mungle (actor),
Genres: Action, Animation, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi,Actors: Alan Landsburg (producer), Anthony Steel (actor), Rod Steiger (actor), Anthony Perkins (actor), Robert Lang (actor), David Cunliffe (producer), Robert Arden (actor), Alan Parker (composer), Iain Cuthbertson (actor), Hubert Rees (actor), Ron Berglas (actor), Alan MacNaughton (actor), Elizabeth Kling (editor), Julian Littman (actor), Sheila Allen (actress),
Plot: Two ideologically-disparate terrorists (one from the PLO, one from the IRA) meet up in London to assassinate a visiting Israeli nuclear scientist. An alcoholic ex-government agent (Anthony Perkins) is brought out of retirement to track them down.
Keywords: airport, assassination-attempt, based-on-novel, boarding-house, british-intelligence, car-chase, car-crash, france, irish-republican-army, israeliActors: Rafael Azcona (writer), Fernando Fernán Gómez (actor), Julio Peña (editor), Javier Gurruchaga (composer), Javier Gurruchaga (actor), Manolo Gómez Bur (actor), Esperanza Roy (actress), Carlos Lucas (actor), Francisco Maestre (actor), Fernando Salas (actor), José Luis Lemos (actor), Paola Dominguín (actress), Joaquín Navarro (actor), Popocho Ayestarán (actor), José María García (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Lola Gaos (actress), Rafaela Aparicio (actress), José Villasante (actor), José Orjas (actor), Juan Cazalilla (actor), José María Caffarel (actor), Agustín González (actor), Jesús Guzmán (actor), Manuel Alexandre (actor), Rafael Hernández (actor), Rufino Inglés (actor), Alfredo Landa (actor), Pedro Mari Sánchez (actor), José Luis López Vázquez (actor), Gracita Morales (actress),
Plot: Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.
Keywords: bank, bank-employee, bank-robbery, caper, caper-comedy, criminal, gang, heist, heist-movie, number-in-title