But Thompson, like most director-generals a student of BBC history, insists his vision for the corporation offers continuity as well as change.
"The circumstances of his appointment make him one of the most powerful director generals ever," said our panel.
"The BBC actually congratulated itself, and the executive ultimately responsible was promptly promoted to become the most disastrous director-general in the corporation's history".
In the most recent case, a director general of the ministry's Natural Resources and Energy Agency, Toru Ishida, left the ministry last year and joined Tepco early this year as an adviser.
Most recently, Al Jazeera's director general, Wadah Khanfar, departed in what some journalists there saw as part of Qatar's determination to appease countries like Saudi Arabia and Jordan, both long irritated by Al Jazeera's reporting.
The most wonderful man". BBC director general Tony Hall called Corbett "a wonderful comic and entertainer".
Most recently, Philip was the director general of ADB's Pacific department.
Timothy G. Reeves, the center's director general, said most foreign countries that finance its projects now demand patents.
In 1988, Richard R. Colino, Intelsat's director general for most of that decade, was sentenced to six years in prison for organizing the theft of $5.4 million from Intelsat, mostly in connection with construction of its Washington headquarters complex.
Iran-backed by Brazil, South Africa, Germany, the IAEA's own director general, and, most recently, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwalwaysasaidwayessaid yes.
We carefully review the files that we receive from the City Council often visiting the families ourselves to make sure that they are the most deprived," said Mekky Abdel Alim, Director General of the Assiut Company for Water and Waste water for El Fateh district.
