Wiktionary
n. 1 The president of the United States. 2 The head of government or head of state. 3 The governor of a U.S. state. 4 chief executive officer.
Wikipedia
Chief executive is an alternate form for chief executive officer, the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators.
Chief executive also may refer to:
- Chief Executive (magazine), targeted at Chief executive officers
- In government:
- Chief executive (gubernatorial), head of sub-national administrative region
- Specific jurisdictions:
- Chief Executive of Hong Kong, head of Hong Kong SAR government
- Chief Executive of Macau, head of Macau SAR government
- Chief Executive Officer (Afghanistan), a position in the government of Afghanistan
Chief Executive is a term used for certain gubernatorial offices, expressing the nature of their job being analogous to a head of government. Commonly used to refer to Presidential powers given by the constitution. As Chief Executive the president can: implement policy, supervise executive branch of government, prepare executive budget for submission to congress, and appoint and remove executive officials
While in most cases there is another specific style, such as governor-general, governor, lieutenant governor, there are a few offices formally styled Chief Executive:
- In the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China, which were previously under British and Portuguese rule until the transfer of sovereignty in late 20th century, the chief executive are the political and executive leaders of the regions and of their respective governments:
Title
Created
Superseded / defunct
Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1997
Governor of Hong Kong
Chief Executive of Macau
1999
Governor of Macau
- In Mauritius, on Rodrigues island, since 12 October 2002 autonomy was granted:
Term
Name
Party
24 October 2002 - 23 October 2004
Claude Wong So
Non-party
24 October 2004 - 20
Jean-Claude Pierre-Louis
Non-party
- New Zealand Antarctic Territory: while not a government, the Ross Dependency is a Crown entity managed by a Board of Directors and the Chair acts as the Chief Executive. The Board reports to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand).
- The head of government in the Falkland Islands is known as the Chief Executive.
- Historically, the head of government of the Ryukyu Islands was known as the Chief Executive. The functions were largely superseded by that of the Governor of the Okinawa Prefecture upon retrocession of the islands to Japan as a prefecture.
In local government in the Republic of Ireland, the chief executive of a city or county is the senior permanent official of its local authority. Whereas the county council and city council are elected officials who formulate policy, the chief executive is an appointed official who manages the implementation of policy. The position was introduced in 1929–42 based on the American council–manager government model, and until 2014 the chief executive was styled the county manager or city manager. Their salaries range from €132,511 to €189,301 per annum. The County and City Management Association (formerly the County and City Managers' Association) is the professional association for chief executives, and it is affiliated to the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).
Chief Executive is a business magazine published by Chief Executive Group, LLC.
Usage examples of "chief executive".
No Chief Executive since Washington had been faced with the necessity of appointing the entire Supreme Court, and even that had been in an age when the national consensus on law had been far firmer and deeper than what existed in America now.
It was unusual to be so close to the Chief Executive without the protective presence of Secret Service guards, especially since he had been so long out of government service.
It was a customary courtesy for the chief executive to maintain a low profile during the opposition's convention.
As a matter of simple fact, Trevor Bannister found Warren Suttles the silliest excuse for a chief executive of any of the three system presidents he'd served as Chief Marshal.
But she couldn't appear publicly to support his barbed comments about the acting chief executive Parliament had been forced to deal with while she was in Spindle.
Having never in his public life held an administrative position, having never played any but a marginal role in the previous administration, having never served in the military, or campaigned for a single vote, or claimed anything like a political bent, he was now chief executive and commander-in-chief.