Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
convener
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A church elder, he was convener of the fabric committee of Grandtully/Strathtay and Logiealmond Churches.
▪ At this point, a speaker, actually the convener of the symposium, interrupted me in mid-sentence.
▪ He was deputy convener of the region for 12 years and leader of the Conservative group for ten years.
▪ The Communist convener could both feel and see that he was losing control.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convener
Convener \Con*ven"er\, n.
One who convenes or meets with others. [Obs.]
One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body. [Scot.]
Wiktionary
convener
n. One who convenes or calls a meeting
WordNet
convener
n. the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings
Usage examples of "convener".
Matt doesn’t care: He’s the First Contact Convener, and he decides this sort of stuff, even if Elizabeth did pull rank—and, to be fair, her prior experience with the selkies—to be the one on the ground.
The NavComTech acknowledged Kazan's message, routed it through the voice-print convener and keyed it through to Hartmann's signal screen.