Sentence examples for heads the secretariat from inspiring English sources
Agus Purnomo, a former director of WWF in Indonesia who now heads the secretariat of the National Council on Climate Change, says that the country's third place in the carbon-emissions tables is a hangover from the disastrous El Niño of the late 1990s.
In meetings with José Bustani, who heads the secretariat that enforces the Chemical Weapons Convention signed by 130 countries, Zinovy Pak, director of the Russian Munitions Agency, said funds for the destruction of chemical arms had been increased sixfold this year to $105 million.
He heads the Secretariat, which is responsible for implementing IAEA programmes.
Wood heads the secretariat for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, an emerging international coalition that has set disaster reduction as one of nine priority areas [see "Terra Cognita: Using Earth Observing Systems to Understand Our World," p. A98 this issue].
One had headed the secretariat of the Independent Electoral Commission, which was accused of participating in the fraud that tarnished last year's presidential elections.
Besides heading the secretariat, he was also member of the powerful Politburo and of many other interlocking and overlapping committees an arch-bureaucrat engaged in quietly outmaneuvering brilliant rivals, including Trotsky and Grigory Zinovyev, who despised such mundane organizational work.
Pope Francis created the position of the Secretariat of the Economy to oversea the finances and administrative functions of the Holy See and appointed Australian Cardinal George Pell to head the Secretariat.
It will also fill a gap in the international spectrum of organizations, since no other intergovernmental institution is dedicated to the promotion of renewable energy, said Virginia Sonntag-O'Brien, who heads the REN21 secretariat in Paris.
Joseph was deputy head of Pat Cox's private office when he was EP President, and head of the secretariat of the Internal Market (IMCO) committee for seven years.
He was promptly appointed head of the secretariat of the commission, putting him in charge of electoral operations.
