Germans remember him as a competent and conservative finance minister under Mrs Merkel in 2005-09, whis his party and hers governed in a "grand coalition".
In March, he accompanied Gamal Mubarak on a trip to America.Fresh-faced Mr NazifMr Nazif has created a dynamic-looking economic team by naming Yousef Boutros-Ghali, another competent youngster, as finance minister, and Mahmoud Mohieddin, a 39-year-old economist and henchman of Gamal Mubarak, to a new portfolio overseeing capital markets, privatisation and investment promotion.
Friends and political acquaintances say he is a competent manager, skilled in finance, the pleasant man he seemed during the campaign -- if without the personal charm or media savvy of Mr. Orban.
In my view, the best solution is to harness market discipline and investor interests (including perhaps shareholder "say on pay"), working though better transparency and a much more disciplined approach governing the "special" businesses that comprise modern finance by competent boards that are acutely aware of their twin duties of care and loyalty.
Not surprisingly, they tend to finance the most competent of the researchers, which poses a conundrum for the science editor, Laura Chang.
He spends about a third of his leadership time managing cuts and balancing the books, which seems too much, but it is the only to way to keep on top – that and the recruitment of "a very competent chartered accountant" as senior finance officer.
Managers will need science literacy along with knowledge of global finance, and all competent managers will be sustainability managers.
Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said recent results showed that federal defense lawyers were better financed and more competent than their state counterparts, particularly at presenting mitigating evidence in the penalty phase of the trial.
Known for his cool, competent professionalism in foreign affairs and finance, Couve de Murville was considered the consummate civil servant.
Though Chanel can make a fortune, she can't add straight; though she is brilliantly competent at the complexities of high finance, she can't do simple sums without an eraser.
