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John Loughton	In 2012, he was appointed to the Advisory Council of the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
Mohammed Mana	Talking in March 2009 on the Electoral Reform report of the committee headed by Justice Mohammed Uwais, he recommended that the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission be appointed by the executive, but subject to judicial review.
Ernst Hirsch Ballin	Hirsch Ballin has held numerous other positions, among them government commissioner for the review of legislation, member of the Board of the Netherlands Atlantic Association, member of Committee 2004 (for the relationship between the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba) and deputy justice on the Central Appeals Tribunal and the Administrative Court for Trade and Industry.
Satya Pal Jain	In May 2013, he was nominated as the Chairman of the 6 member National Legal Working Group of the BJP formed by Shri Rajnath Singh, National President, BJP to study comprehensively important legal issues and help the party to effectively formulate its stand on all legal subjects.
David Wright (politician)	In 2011, he was a member of the special Select Committee set up to scrutinise the Bill that became the Armed Forces Act 2011.
Colin Pearson, Baron Pearson	Rising to sit as a judge in the House of Lords, he is best remembered for his unspectacular but efficient and courteous chairmanship of industrial inquiries and royal commission s. His 1978 report into civil liability and compensation for personal injury made proposals for state pensions for accident victims that were largely rejected by government at the time.
Bruce Baird	Following the financial collapse of a number of providers of education to international students, in 2009 Baird agreed to head up a review into international education in Australia.
Gbenga Elegbeleye	He is a member of various bodies both at the state and federal levels, namely : His appointment as Director-General of National Sports Commission on May 15, 2013, received mixed reviews in Nigeria.
Dick Thompson Morgan	Morgan also became an expert on Rural Credits, sponsoring the 1916 rural credits law that created the federal land bank system.
Christine Robertson	In Parliament she has been a member of the Joint Select Committee on the Threatened Species Conservation Amendment (Biodiversity Banking) Bill 2006, a member of the General Purpose Standing Committee, a member of the Standing Committee on State Development, and a member of the Committee on the Health Care Complaints Commission.
Philip Hartog	When the Indian Statutory Commission was set up in 1928 under Sir John (later Lord) Simon, Hartog was appointed chairman of the Auxiliary Committee on Education.
Rajinder Sachar	In March 2005 Justice Rajinder Sachar was appointed to a committee to study the condition of the Muslim community in India and to prepare a comprehensive report on their social, economic and educational status.
Henry Harvey Vivian	In 1906 Vivian was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways.
John Sulman	Sulman however became involved with the planning of Canberra in 1921 when he was appointed head of the Federal Capital Advisory Committee.
Ernest Gowers	After the second world war he was appointed chair of numerous government inquiries, including the 1949 Royal Commission into Capital Punishment.
Alexandre Millerand	His programme included the collective ownership of the means of production and the international association of labour, but, when in June 1899 he entered Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet of'' republican defence'' as Minister of Commerce, he limited himself to practical reforms, devoting his attention to the improvement of the mercantile marine, to the development of trade, of technical education, of the postal system, and to the amelioration of the conditions of labour.
Henry Tizard	One of the most controversial meetings he had to attend in his capacity as chair of the Defence Research Policy Committee would only emerge many years later with the declassification of CIA documents, namely a meeting on 1 June 1951, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal, Canada, between Tizard, Omond Solandt (chairman of Defence Research and Development Canada) and representatives of the CIA, to discuss'' brainwashing.''
Anwaar Ahmad	On June 17, 2011, he was appointed as Chairman, National Language Authority, by Prime Minister of Pakistan on the recommendation of Chairman Search Committee (Cabinet Division, Pakistan).
Hugh Pennington	In late November 1996, an Escherichia coli outbreak in the town of Wishaw, central Scotland prompted the Scottish Executive to establish an expert group, chaired by Pennington.
Ra?l Madero	After Bilardo's departure and a tenure as head of medicine with the Argentine Football Association, in 1996 Madero was made a member of FIFA's Sports Medical Committee and the FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC).
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami	In accordance with ISKCON GBC Governing Body Commission resolutions March 1978 Satsvarupa dasa Goswami along with other eleven Governing Body Commissioners assumed duties and services of initiating disciples in assigned zones after the departure of Prabhupada from the planet.
Ferdinand von Prondzynski	In 2011 von Prondzynski was commissioned by Scottish Ministers to chair a review of higher education governance.
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos	After working in Equal Opportunities, Training and Management Services in local government in the London borough s of Lambeth, Camden and Hackney, Amos became Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission 1989 -- 94.
Thomas K. Finletter	He returned to public service July 18, 1947, when President Harry S. Truman established a temporary, five-man commission that inquired into all phases of aviation and drafted the national air policy report.
Louise Arbour	In 1995, Arbour was appointed as President of a Commission of Inquiry, under the Inquiries Act, for the purpose of investigating and reporting on events at the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, following allegations by prisoners of abuse.
David E. Potter	David served on the 1997 National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (The Dearing Committee) and continued his involvement in higher education policy as a Board Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Clement Hindley	In 1940 he appointed as chair of the committee to consider post war reconstruction for the Ministry of Works and Buildings.
Edmund Giambastiani	In addition, he worked with the Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England as Co-Chair of the Deputies Advisory Working Group, which oversees implementation of the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review and other high level Departmental business issues.
David Cohen (politician)	Sworn in as a member of City Council in 1968, Cohen became a leader of the independent factions of the City Council, and worked to focus the City Council on previously slighted problems dealing with zoning, public health care, air pollution, governmental ethics, delivery of city services, and race relations.
Otto Kahn-Freund	He was a member of the Royal Commission on Reform of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations 1965.
Elwood Mead	In 1907, Mead was appointed Chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission in Victoria, Australia.
Alec Neill	He chaired parliament's Planning and Development Select Committee, which oversaw the passing of the Resource Management Act 1991.
Jean-Marie Georges Girard de Soubeyran	Well known for his financial talents, it was his advice that Léon Gambetta sought on Gambetta's being elected president of the budget commission in 1876.
Ralph Flanders	In 1937, Vermont Governor George Aiken appointed Flanders to two commissions : first, the Special Milk Investigative Committee to study ways to modernize dairying in Vermont ; and second, the Flood Control Commission, which chose Flanders as its chairman.
Sam Pitroda	In July 2009, the Government of India invited Pitroda to head an expert committee on ICT in Railways.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	In June 2011 Hamad commissioned the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry headed by respected human rights lawyer M. Cherif Bassiouni to look into the events surrounding the unrest.
Les Bursill	He was appointed a member of the Relationships Australia Ethics Committee in April 2012.
Harry Chauvel	In January 1920, he chaired a committee to examine the future structure of the army.
Adarsh Sein Anand	Anand was nominated as the Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (India), a statutory body, with effect from July 1997 in recognition of his contribution to legal aid for the poor.
David Boswell Reid	In 1843 Reid sat on the 13-man Royal Commission to inquire into'' the state of large towns and populous districts in England and Wales with reference to the causes of disease among the inhabitants, and into the best means of promoting and securing public health''.
Graeme Samuel	In July 2012, Samuel was appointed Chairman of the Victorian Taxi Services Commission following the Victorian Government's initiative to clean up and provide better regulation around the taxi cab industry.
Robert Marsden Hope	Hope completed the Royal Commission into Australia's Security and Intelligence Agencies (RCASIA) in 1984 and made a range of logical and basic recommendations (in terms of the evolution of policies of the time) that again altered the parameters that Australia's intelligence agencies operated under and bought them into the political and cultural paradigms of the 1980s.
Alfredo Flores Tadiar	In 2003, he and the Committee completed a study tour in Toronto to look into their system of mandatory mediation in the courts.
Arnold Felix Graves	Graves' submissions for practical education to the Belmore Commission of 1898 were adopted by the National Board and this led to a new code, syllabus and regulations for National Schools in Ireland.
Julie Mellor	She then worked as a consultant on employment and consumer issues until 1999, where her clients included TSB, Motorola, Northern Foods, Xerox, the National Health Service, the Department for Education and Employment, the Home Office and the Employers' Forum on Disability.
Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow	After his retirement, Barlow served as a member of the Zimbabwe Public Service Review Commission (1987 -- 89).
Butler B. Miltonberger	In 1950 he became Chairman of the'' Miltonberger Board'', which consisted of current and former National Guard officers and was empowered to review the National Guard's organizational structure, internal policies and operational procedures, and make recommendations for long term improvements.
Liyel Imoke	Imoke implemented reforms laid out in the Nigerian Power Sector Reform Act of 2005, leading to establishment of the Nigerian Energy Regulatory Commission (NERC), the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and the unbundling of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA).
David Kerr (oncologist)	In 2004, Kerr was invited by Scotland's First Minister to chair the work of a National Framework Advisory Group to consider the future shape of the NHS in Scotland.
Hans Staudinger	The only result of Staudinger's efforts was the publication of a comprehensive study of structural problems of the German economy after the First World War, which was presented by a corresponding committee of inquiry, as proposed by Staudinger in 1925.
Henry Bradford Nason	In 1881 the New York State Board of Health selected him to be inspector of petroleum oils, and appointed him as commissioner to London to consider methods of dealing with petroleum nuisances.
George Swinburne	In 1919 when the electricity commission was instituted Swinburne was appointed one of the four commissioners, with Sir John Monash as chairman.
Lewis H. Moore	In 2013, Moore became chairman of a committee created to look at state sovereignty issues.
Simon Murdoch	In 2010 he conducted a review of New Zealand intelligence agencies, and for a period before and after the appointment of Lt Gen Sir Jerry Mateparae, he was acting chief executive and director of the GCSB.
Quintin O'Connor	In 1948, O'Connor sat on the Constitutional Reform Committee and signed the majority report, which reformed Trinidad and Tobago's political system without granting responsible government.
John Menadue	He chaired the NSW Health Council, which reported to the NSW Minister for Health in March 2000 on changes to health services in NSW.
Joe Volpe	He served as chair of the Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources in 2000, and developed a report for improving Canada's national highway system.
Elaine McCoy	Other highlighted achievements while at the Macleod Institute include : In 1995, McCoy was asked by the Alberta Government to Chair a Joint Review Committee (JRC) into whether or not Right-to-Work (RTW) legislation would be beneficial to the province.
Ryland H. New	During the Great Depression he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Federal Home Improvement Plan established by the Government of Canada in 1937 to provide subsidized interest rates on rehabilitation loans for housing.
Philip Flood	Since his retirement from the public service in 2000, Flood has been actively involved with CARE Australia, the Australia-Indonesia Institute and Asialink ; and has headed several public inquiries, the most recent being the Inquiry into Plasma Fractionation, the Inquiry into Australia's Intelligence Agencies and the Inquiry into Detention Centres.
Nelson Rockefeller	In 1952 President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Rockefeller to Chair the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization to recommend ways of improving efficiency and effectiveness of the executive branch of the federal government.
Paul Volcker	In 1996, he took up the chair of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (Volcker Commission) to look into the dormant accounts of Jewish victims of the Holocaust lying in Swiss banks.
Tom Moore (track)	He served as head of the United States Olympic Committee's task force to select a bidding city for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Robert L. Gordon III	In 2006 he was a member of the American Jewish Committee Task Force that recommended a new national service strategy for the United States.
Lin Hatfield Dodds	In August 2012 she was appointed Chair of the Australian Social Inclusion Board, the main advisory body to Government on ways to achieve better outcomes for the most disadvantaged people in our community.
Holly Benson	Benson also chaired the Select Committee on Article V, which was tasked with implementing a 1998 constitutional amendment that required a major overhaul of the Florida state court system.
James Smith (1806?68)	He was named to a commission created by Governor Charles Bagot in 1841 to review the seigneurial system ; the commission's report recommended that the system be abolished.
Patrick McClure	McClure was Deputy Chairperson of the Welfare to Work Consultative Forum, chaired by the Hon Kevin Andrews, Minister for Employment, Education and Workplace Relations in 2005 -- 6 which implemented welfare to work initiatives in the Australian labour market.
Ron Dyer	In 2011, Brad Hazzard NSW Minister for Planning appointed Dyer as a Joint Chair of a Review of the NSW Planning System together with former NSW Environment Minister Tim Moore.
Mitch Daniels	In February 2013, Daniels was asked to co-chair a National Research Council committee to review and make recommendations on the future of the U. S. human spaceflight program.
John Wheatley, Baron Wheatley	Following the Ibrox disaster in 1971, Wheatley was appointed by the government to conduct an inquiry into safety at sports grounds.
Brian Peckford	In 2008, he was appointed chair of a federal government -- appointed expert panel to review federal chronic disease policy, especially diabetes, and to present a report to the federal Health minister.
Mike Nesbitt	In January 2008, Nesbitt was announced as a Commissioner of Victims and Survivors, a Northern Ireland Assembly role designed to promote the interests of victims of the Troubles.
J. J. Francis	In May 1894 bubonic plague struck Hong Kong and a permanent committee of the Sanitary Board, comprising three members with Francis as chairman, was set up to cope with the emergency.
Geng Huichang	As of January 2010 Geng is also a member of the National Energy Commission, a State Council - established body designed to improve the coordination of China's energy industry.
Roy Hodgson	On 20 October 2013, Hodgson and Rio Ferdinand were appointed to the Football Association's commission to improve the state of the national game.
Ald?a Landry	She later served as a director of the Bank of Canada and, on June 24, 2005, she was appointed to the Security Intelligence Review Committee and the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
Paul Marsden	In July 2012, Marsden was appointed as a consultant to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Specialist Security and was employed to draft the inquiry report on VIP Security at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.
Harold Winthrop Clapp	In 1944, he was asked to prepare a report on the standardisation of rail gauge s in Australia.
Patrick McClure	He is a Member of the Business Council of Australia Labour Market Expert Advisory Group chaired by Bill Scales, AO (2013 -- 14).
Frank J. Loesch	In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed Loesch as one of the eleven primary members of the Wickersham Commission on issues relating to law enforcement, criminal activity, police brutality, and Prohibition.
Margaret Beckett	In a report published on 29 March 2007 by the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee select committee, she was criticised for her role in the failures of the Rural Payments Agency when she had been Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
David F. Levi	A member of the ALI since 1991, Judge Levi was an Adviser to its Federal Judicial Code Revision Project and an Adviser to the Institute's new Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.
Muhammad Mumuni	In 1979, he served on the Local Government Grants Commission set up under the Third Republican constitution to allocate development resources to district and local councils in Ghana.
Roberto Smeraldi	In 2013, he was appointed to the Committee for the Implementation of the Forestry Code, an ad hoc federal advisory body.
Andrew Jackson Bryant	Yellow fever In 1878, Bryant called together and was elected chairman of a relief committee designed to accept and forward donations to Southern United States communities that were then in the grip of a yellow fever epidemic.
James Falconer	In 1925 he was appointed to a joint Board of Agriculture and Scottish Office inquiry into unemployment among farm workers and related social insurance schemes.
Angus Houston	In June 2012, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that Houston would chair an expert group that would examine asylum seeker policy and prepare a report recommending a solution for the Government's consideration.
Tim Flannery	In February 2011 it was announced that Flannery had been appointed to head the Climate Change Commission established by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to explain climate change and the need for a carbon price to the public.
Rick Trainor	In May 2012 HEFCE announced it was to undertake a Review of Philanthropic Support for Higher Education throughout the UK and Professor Trainor will sit on the review board.
Lynne Kosky	Kosky led an extensive legislative review during her period as Minister for Education and Training and released a discussion paper on 11 February 2005 on a review of 15 separate statutes governing Victoria's education and training system.
Heather Rabbatts	In October 2013 she criticised the make-up of the Football Association's commission to improve the national team as being'' all-white, all-male'' ; Rio Ferdinand was subsequently added to the commission.
Alex Allan	On 15 November 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment.
Herb Graham	In 1957 Graham took on responsibility for transport, presiding over the implementation of an integrated bus system.
Lisa Gervasoni	She has been a member of the Victorian Mineral Water Committee since 2001 and her work referenced in the Planning Institute of Australia's submission to the Parliament of Australia's Standing Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Inquiry into Future Water Supply for Rural Industries and Communities.
Harry A. Millis	He appointed Robert Watts as the agency's new chief counsel, removed casehandling and regional office communication from the jurisdiction of the Office of the Secretary, created a Field Division, delegated large amounts of authority to field offices, and generally implemented the recommendations of a 1939 internal staff report (which had been stalled by Chairman Madden because it would have taken authority out of Witt's hands).
James Crosby (banker)	On 11 July 2006, Crosby was appointed by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, to lead the Government's Public Private Forum on Identity Management, a scheme designed to counter problems such as identity fraud.
Mark Francois	In 2011, he was a member of the special Select Committee set up to scrutinise the Bill that became the Armed Forces Act 2011.
Robert Marsden Hope	Hope was again commissioned only a year later in 1978 to conduct the Protective Security Review (PSR) into protective security arrangements for the Commonwealth as well as co-operation between national and state cooperation on protective security following the bombing of the Hilton Hotel in Sydney during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting (CHOGRM).
Robert Hayward	It was announced on 15 May 2012 that Robert Hayward would be chairing the government's Public Sector Equality Duty review.