As the humane "pillar" of the United Nations administration in Kosovo prepares to shut down, its job of emergency relief deemed to be over, its director has some advice for the next great international mission to rebuild a country: be prepared to invest as much money and effort in winning the peace as in fighting the war.
Jacques Rivière took over as its director in 1919.
In 1974, he took over as its director, a post he was to hold for 20 years.
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles said on Thursday that Michael Brand, who took over as its director at the end of 2005, is stepping down at the end of the month.
The golden age at Thames, all too briefly presided over by its director of programmes, Jeremy Isaacs, included Something to Say with Bryan Magee.
The flotation of commodity trader Glencore for £29bn, making billionaires many times over of its directors, is a signal to every budding entrepreneur in Britain about where to direct his or her energies – not towards production or innovation in the real economy.
But in early 2015 the IMA was taken over, its board of directors replaced by pro-regime figures from the health ministry and a new chairman appointed: former Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa – notorious for his anti-Brotherhood rhetoric.
Last year the documentary "Undefeated" was passed over by Sundance, so its directors, T. J. Martin and Dan Lindsay, took their uplifting story of a Tennessee high school football team to South by Southwest, in Austin, Tex.
GMI Ratings gave the company a grade of "D," citing it for, among other flaws, having over half of its directors on the board for more than 10 years and three of them for two decades.
For another, it is probably the only agency ever to offer a $40,000 prize for a balloon hunt, a contest that was inspired by Regina Dugan, a 47-year-old expert in mine detection, who took over last summer as its director.
