Mr. Gasser was a well-known and well-regarded figure in traditional art circles during his lifetime.
He is a popular and well-regarded figure internally and among City scribes, but the decisions he will have to take to shake up M&S will be tough – and unpopular.
A longtime Homeland Security official who ran the agency as acting secretary for more than four months last year, Duke, now deputy secretary, is a well-regarded figure at DHS and viewed as one of its most experienced managers.
After difficulties in appointing a nonexecutive director, the board selected Mr. Flint, a well-regarded figure in London financial circles whose knowledge of the bank's finances made him an appealing choice for investors.
But David M. Steiner, the New York State education commissioner, is also a well-regarded figure among the school reform movement, whose guiding principle is that American students are best served by a results-driven, businesslike approach to education management.
But one night last month in Springfield, Mo., during a semifinal game at the Bass Pro Shops Tournament of Champions against Kickapoo, Walker proved again why he has been a well-regarded figure in New York basketball circles since he was in elementary school.
The bank's president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, a well-known and well-regarded figure throughout European banking and social circles, was effectively sacked when the board passed a unanimous "no-confidence" vote in late May.
The 45-year-old, who is appearing at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, is politically close to Prime Minister David Cameron and is a popular and well-regarded figure on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons.
Dill, Santa Monica-born and now Venice-based, has been a well-regarded figure in conceptual art since the late-'60s.
But not a well-regarded design.
