2.08pm BST Treasury committee chair: Bank of England breaks new ground Andrew Tyrie MP, the highly respected chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, has also issued a response to today's report.
"Since original chair respected former RBA Governor Bernie Fraser resigned and the Abbott appointees took their position, we've seen less of the 'frank and fearless' advice expected of an independent institution".
The debates raging this year over the appointment of celebrities to prize committees and their stewardship by oleaginous former MPs seem all the more downmarket when considering who was on the 1971 Booker panel: John Fowles, Saul Bellow, Lady Antonia Fraser and Philip Toynbee with the respected critic John Gross as chair.
Last week, Princeton University professor Robert P. George, a Catholic who is respected by evangelicals and was chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, denounced the executive order in First Things magazine.
A day before the white paper, respected Tories such as Jesse Norman, chair of the media select committee, and Damian Green raised questions in the house about the impact on the BBC's editorial independence.
In this respect, department chairs might be functioning more as middle managers and intermediaries (cf. Briggs 2005).
As a result, in April 2009 the U.N. Human Rights Council appointed an investigative committee, chaired by Richard Goldstone, a respected South African jurist and human rights advocate, and a Jew.
This historic gathering of approximately 450 people was hosted by Dr. Saman Shali, President of the Kurdish National Congress of America, and chaired by Soraya Fallah, a well respected Kurdish human rights activist.
The interim ACMD chair, Les Iversen, is a highly respected neuropharmacologist; his books on cannabis and amphetamines are definitive works.
He also had a long involvement with the World Methodist Council, where he was respected for his wisdom and eloquence; he chaired the WMC executive committee from 1976 to 1981.
