But the group, The Elders, was to be chaired by Tutu.
About six months later the new Design Excellence panel was announced, to be chaired by Keating.
A new committee of cabinet, to be chaired by the prime minister, will also be formed.
The "panel" (committees are so Old Britain) is to be chaired by Gavyn Davies, Goldman Sachs's chief economist.
The talks are officially designed to cover the G7 summit in Bavaria in June, to be chaired by Merkel.
Today's appointments will all sit on Global's new radio board, which will continue to be chaired by Charles Allen.
Abbott has said the prime minister's Business Advisory Council, to be chaired by Newman, would meet three times a year.
The opposition and human-rights groups want a commission of inquiry.On May 14th, Guyana's president, Bharrat Jagdeo, finally announced one, to be chaired by an appeal-court judge.
The resolution endorses a special military committee, to be chaired by Mr Allawi, which will determine basic security policy, "including policy on sensitive offensive operations".
The fab project that has caused the greatest excitement, for instance, happens to be chaired by the son of Jiang Zemin, China's president.
They were, though, retained as consultants.Halliburton is an oil company that used to be chaired by Dick Cheney, Mr Bush's vice-president.
