Abadi, a conciliatory technocrat, took office promising to reduce sectarian polarization.
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The new prime minister is widely seen as a capable technocrat.
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Technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko was touted as a possible replacement.
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Gonzalez Anaya, a polished, American-educated technocrat, has scored some early wins.
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Technocrat Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic has promised to focus on the economy.
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He had campaigned as a visionary, but he governed as a technocrat.
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Stefan said he could not rule out another technocrat prime minister being nominated.
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"He's got to separate himself from his image as a technocrat," Mr. Aghion said.
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GIUSEPPE CONTE is poised to boldly go where no Italian technocrat has gone before.
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He is a culturally liberal businessman and a technocrat focused on data over ideology.
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He's running as a managerial technocrat who can make the trains run on time.
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What's next: The new prime minister will be Mikhail Mishustin, a virtually unknown technocrat.
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Rousseff, a technocrat who had never won elected office, was Lula da Silva's handpicked successor.
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Tria, a technocrat without political affiliation, sounded more moderate than some of his government colleagues.
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Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha remained adamant about demanding a technocrat government and nothing else.
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A technocrat would say this showed the need for even stronger and more independent institutions.
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Bill Clinton pulled himself up by his bootstraps and was a young, exciting governor. Technocrat.
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 (Reuters) - Malaysia's new prime minister will announce his cabinet on Monday, a week after he was appointed amid political turmoil, with a technocrat or technocrat-turned-politician expected to be drafted into the crucial finance ministry as the economy slows.
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Another developing-country technocrat grumbles "we'll be under water" by the time his project is considered.
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Mattarella could appoint a technocrat leader for the time being and call snap elections for 2020.
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President Peña Nieto named another technocrat, José Antonio Meade, as Videgaray's replacement in the finance ministry.
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Even a relatively intelligent figure such as Mr Hammond is a technocrat rather than a philosopher.
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The head of state then named a technocrat premier on Monday to prepare for new elections.
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He governed as a technocrat and, quite frankly, a bully, alienating many people and intimidating others.
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People there describe him as a hard-working, modest-living technocrat dedicated to improving public services.
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Gorbachev rose through the ranks as a technocrat with no background in the regime's security apparatus.
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He was "Mayor Pete" the Rhodes Scholar, Navy veteran, pianist and technocrat conversant in eight languages.
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While many observers expected to see a technocrat in the post, Mishustin was an unlikely pick.
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Huntsman is known as a moderate conservative technocrat who ran a sleepy presidential campaign in 2012.
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The state had been in an ornery outsider mood for a while, unceremoniously kicking the technocrat Gov.
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And Abadi actually tried to make this happen, presenting two different lists of technocrat candidates to parliament.
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Mehdi Jomaa, a technocrat prime minister managed to secure temporary fiscal reforms in 2014 to boost revenues.
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Jennifer Musisi, the city's top technocrat, says that gives her "more freedom to do what is right".
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Mr Hunt won a reputation as an efficient technocrat while running the health department for six years.
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A no-confidence vote against technocrat Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic is expected to be held on Thursday.
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As recently as 2011-85033, technocrat Mario Monti, economist and former European commissioner, served as prime minister.
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Kuczynski is widely viewed as a competent technocrat but has been criticized for having weak political skills.
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We will have a very rational parliament, a less factional parliament, a more expert and technocrat parliament.
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For many, she has helped humanize the technocrat-banker with a tendency (now contained) for highfalutin jargon.
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But his reputation as a technocrat meant that as presidents came and went, Mr. Volcker stayed put.
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The head of state wields sweeping powers and the prime minister is more of a technocrat figure.
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That technocrat is quite obviously SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who she publicly feuded with earlier this year.
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But a solid if unspectacular technocrat with extensive management experience may be exactly what the Bank needs.
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If Ghani is the workaholic technocrat, Khalilzad is the wheeler dealer looking to work out an arrangement.
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But he is a technocrat among warlords, some of whom have been made billionaires by the drugs trade.
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Yi Gang, China's new central banker, known as a technocrat, mentioned the party five times in his speech.
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Hillary Clinton, for her part, has traditionally presented herself as a moderate, a pragmatist, a sub-ideological technocrat.
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As the most bloodless technocrat should have long ago recognized, no policy achievement is complete without political legitimacy.
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He said she "came to it as a technocrat" rather than a consultant focused on pushing conservative ideology.
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Yesterday, that candidate happened to be Iván Duque Márquez, a one-term senator and longtime international development technocrat.
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As a senior minister, she was widely regarded as a technocrat, a practical politician rather than an ideologue.
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Mr. Ghani, the constant technocrat, has been forced to focus on security, and his economic initiatives have stalled.
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Attempts to promote technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko, championed by Washington as a reformer, fizzled out this week.
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A respected Shiite technocrat who was nominated for the finance and planning portfolios has withdrawn his candidacy, too.
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His style was completely at odds with James, a data-driven technocrat, and Lachlan, the earnest Murdoch member.
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Some nationalists think Mr Patel is a cosmopolitan technocrat who wants to wreck their chances in next year's election.
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And it is the nature of that truth that accounts for the difference between the thug and the technocrat.
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Italy remained without a government; but the odds for one led by a technocrat appointed by the president receded.
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Failing that, he is expected to seek backing for a technocrat government to help keep Italy's finances on track.
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"What (investors) have allocated so far is still a drop in the ocean," said Ndemo, the former government technocrat.
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Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire neoliberal technocrat who clearly represents the 1 percent-dominated economy that Sanders's campaign opposed.
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A technocrat turned politician, 63-year-old Parrikar was a senior member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who took over as prime minister in early April, is said to be a competent technocrat.
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A technocrat and lawyer by training, he soared through the ranks using his intellect and ability to sideline rivals.
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Seen by critics and some ministers as a remote technocrat given to micromanaging, Ghani lacks a clear power base.
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Both of those parties had supported keeping Dacian Ciolos, a technocrat in office since November 2015, as prime minister.
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Then, the resolution was political: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was toppled in favor of the unelected technocrat Mario Monti.
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Mr. Hammond was once seen as a technocrat who made up for his lack of charisma with calm competence.
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The prime minister, Youssef Chahed, a technocrat, announced his candidacy for president with a promise to "challenge old mindsets".
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He wears a stout mustache, talks like a technocrat, and starts answering a visitor's questions before he's finished asking.
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Russia's Parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a little-known technocrat, Mikhail Mishustin, as President Vladimir Putin's handpicked prime minister.
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At the time, foreign oil executives and analysts largely welcomed the arrival of the genial and low-profile technocrat.
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The government, led by technocrat Tihomir Oreskovic, is to give its opinion on the case for Karamarko's resignation on Friday.
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Hammond, however, is a low-key technocrat who has yet to show he has the stomach for a political fight.
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So far, the 2016 primaries have been inviting for an independent politician who would run as a business-minded technocrat.
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"I also did a public art piece called Triumph of the Technocrat for a developer here in Vancouver," Terris says.
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On the same day, its central bank, led by technocrat Nicolas Dujovne, raised benchmark interest rates to a stupefying 60%.
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Since 2011, privatization generally has made slow progress under a variety of center-left, center-right and technocrat-led governments.
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A technocrat who has never voted for a Democrat in his whole life might march in the annual Pride Parade.
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The obvious answer is that he'll run as the soon-to-be-founded American Technocrat Party's first candidate for president.
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Given this track record, you might expect to see either Yellen reappointed or an equally qualified technocrat take her place.
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By the time Don Guardian, a Republican and technocrat, became mayor in 2014, the city had lost its gambling monopoly.
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Mr. Medvedev's replacement as prime minister is Mikhail Mishustin, an accomplished technocrat who is credited with modernizing Russia's tax service.
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The technocrat government leading the country since the leftist government resigned last November has gone some way to improve transparency.
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For most of his political career, Mr. Buttigieg presented himself as more of a centrist technocrat than a liberal ideologue.
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Mr. Obama, a cerebral technocrat, seemed to operate on the assumption that his nuanced policy solutions would speak for themselves.
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Technocrat Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was always seen as close to 5-Star, though he is not a party member.
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He's a Parisian technocrat who rode a wave of dissatisfaction with traditional French political parties to presidential victory in May 2017.
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He's a Parisian technocrat that rode a wave of dissatisfaction with traditional French political parties to presidential victory in May 2017.
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Italian President Sergio Mattarella could accept Renzi's resignation and call for early elections next year, or appoint a technocrat prime minister.
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But Liu He, the American-educated technocrat who is now President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, may face an insurmountable task.
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A soda tax, for example, is politically toxic despite likely technocrat support, but the leftmost stance on marijuana is wildly popular.
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A self-made multibillionaire (current valuation: $56 billion), the Boston-born technocrat transformed the city in his 21993 years as mayor.
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Italy has never held elections in autumn since World War II. It has had several "technocrat" governments in the last 25 years.
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Between the lines: Moore is facing extra scrutiny as a Republican partisan rather than an economic technocrat, as Axios' Felix Salmon notes.
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The government, led by technocrat Tihomir Oreskovic, has promised to tackle Croatia's low growth, poor investment climate, high public debt and unemployment.
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So, there is a text associated with Triumph of the Technocrat that talks about this whole mandate about what public art is.
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As directed by Daniel Sullivan, Ulysses is a technocrat military adviser, "this sort of Iago-meets-Nate Silver persona," Mr. Stoll said.
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McAleenan is a career professional at CBP who's seen as a nonpartisan technocrat, and likely the most moderate choice in Trump's arsenal.
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Ennahda had rejected calls from the Nidaa Tounes to sack Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, a technocrat, or conduct a major cabinet reshuffle.
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Enjoy the Isiah Thomas dervish routine and the technocrat tranquility of Al Horford and Paul Millsap as they exploit angles and elbows.
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Even Mike Bloomberg, a guy set on a much lower frequency, was the steady technocrat and philanthropist who restored New Yorkers' faith.
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She saw herself as a know-all technocrat, he said, and was dismissive of other people's opinions, including the more junior legislators.
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Salvini's replacement as interior minister, Luciana Lamorgese is a technocrat with no party affiliation, and has established better relations with European partners.
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But he is no such thing, and not only because his politics are much more radical and apocalyptic than any Western technocrat.
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His anointed successor, Heng Swee Keat, a competent if uninspiring technocrat, was promoted to the position of deputy prime minister in May.
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According to the Italian news media, one candidate who could lead a temporary government is Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, a technocrat.
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A cerebral technocrat, she is different from the earthier elders in her party, some of whom started their political careers in Kuomintang prisons.
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Mr Ulyukaev is a technocrat who once served as an aide to Yegor Gaidar, the architect of Russia's transition to a market economy.
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Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, the head of the national police and the technocrat finance minister had all lost their respective positions before Monday.
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Calenda, a technocrat with no party affiliation, insisted the needs of the economy should not be relegated below the interests of political parties.
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His successor Enrico Letta (2013-2014), while a representative of the moderate left Democrat party, could be considered largely a technocrat as well.
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Mr. Kuczynski, an economist, ran as a technocrat; Ms. Fujimori, a populist, is the daughter of one of the country's most controversial leaders.
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Vucic, Serbia's information minister during the Kosovo war, wowed European capitals this year with his choice of a lesbian technocrat as prime minister.
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Mr. Meade, 48, holds a doctorate in economics from Yale and is seen as a capable technocrat with a wide range of experience.
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"Every minister in this government is a technocrat minister," he said, referring to the protesters' demand for a government of experts, not politicians.
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She is a respected technocrat who joined the transit agency in 2004 and has taken a prominent role in touting the subway recovery.
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Or should the job go to a sober technocrat, like Mr. Cordray, who spent much of his recent career working on bank regulation?
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Yatsenyuk presented himself as a Western-friendly technocrat, and he had won his shot at the premiership thanks in part to Western support.
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Growers had been hoping for the appointment of Gabriel Delgado, a market-friendly economist and technocrat favored by farming groups and export companies.
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A hard-working technocrat saying "America is already great, I'm fighting for you," forever, while some people remain hungry, and some people remain sick.
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We see this event as offering significant momentum for change as Macri, a technocrat, has effectively been given a mandate to restructure the economy.
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" In his book, he comes across like a mix of a young tech executive and a technocrat, gushing about "machine learning" and "big data.
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The present technocrat Ciolos cabinet comprising mostly European Commission staff, diplomats and civil society leaders, is a first in Romania's 26 post-communist years.
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But Liu He, China's point man on the trade negotiations, is a Harvard-educated technocrat who many believe has the heart of a reformer.
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The president's Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, picked a technocrat, José Antonio Meade, as its candidate because he was untainted by scandal.
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After Putin's announcement, the entire government resigned, allowing Putin to replace the current prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, with a little-known technocrat, Mikhail Mishustin.
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He was viewed as a technocrat, but he merely replaced the old oligarchy with his own friends and relatives, including his glamorous wife, Imelda.
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But there were also neon-lit warning signs for Mr. Bloomberg, an avowed technocrat who was first elected mayor as a Republican in 2001.
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In 2013, in the final week before the elections, the reformists started supporting Mr. Rouhani, whom they saw as a technocrat, rather than a reformer.
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Okay now forget those guys because Jack Ma set the new high watermark for inscrutable technocrat behavior at this year's Alibaba Annual Party in Hangzhou.
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Abadi presented his proposals to parliament for a technocrat government in the face of resistance from politicians who fear their entrenched interests could be hurt.
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Hense predicted that in this instance, the spread could fall below 200 points, as a technocrat government would work to follow the EU's fiscal rules.
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Now the sixth post-uprising premier, French-educated technocrat Youssef Chahed, is making bold promises even before he has taken office to tackle Tunisia's problems.
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Days later, he backtracked, replacing the minister with Pravin Gordhan, a technocrat whose tenure in that post from 2009 to 2014 has been widely praised.
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Four days later, Zuma was forced to sack van Rooyen and reappoint a previous finance minister, technocrat Pravin Gordhan, after the rand collapsed in value.
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Hamdok, a technocrat and economist, also said Sudan was still in talks with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund about the 2020 budget year.
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However, we still see this as a low probability and are holding out for a technocrat government that is more likely to stay the course.
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The cabinet of technocrat Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos proposed a set of 47 measures with a price tag of around 1 billion euros ($1.11 billion).
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It remains to be seen how many millions of American voters will reach the same verdict on the rhetoric of that technocrat's technocrat, Hillary Clinton.
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On the table are the options of a small reshuffle or broad change with the departure of Chahed, a technocrat who took office in 2016.
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Mr. Wheeler, on the other hand, has led the professional life of a technocrat, avoiding the limelight in favor of carefully advancing his boss's agenda.
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Nevertheless, President Ashraf Ghani, a Western-educated technocrat, made him a partner in the administration because of the general's influence over the country's Uzbek constituency.
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He's an old, white New York technocrat who isn't known for an electric speaking style in a party that yearns for the next Barack Obama.
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Academic Farhad Dejpasand, widely seen as a technocrat, received a vote of confidence by a wide margin as the new minister of economics and finance.
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Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, a technocrat, was more interested in a program to cook up a space-age dart gun coupled with a grenade launcher.
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"Lourenço has proven himself as competent technocrat without major scandals in his past and he's probably the best selection the party could have made," Jonker said.
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The European Parliament is also calling for governments to propose a female candidate and Spain's Socialists called on Tuesday for Rajoy to propose a female technocrat.
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"Under-the-table stitch-ups, palace intrigues, technocrat or caretaker administrations will not stop Italians who want a strong government," he said on Facebook on Sunday.
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Will Macron, a confirmed Eurocentric technocrat, still feel compelled to present the French with a referendum on continued membership in the EU or the common currency?
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His former boss, a Georgian technocrat called Khatia Dekanoidze in charge of the National Police, described in a separate interview cases of vested interests undermining change.
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Sun was not considered part of Xi's power base and was seen as more of a technocrat, not affiliated with any major party faction, Lam said.
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Breitbart says the former president is backing one with his eleventh-hour endorsement on Thursday of the independent centrist technocrat Emmanuel Macron in France's presidential election.
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While many describe Medina as a competent technocrat, he is not seen as having the leadership to push forward a politically complicated overhaul of economic policy.
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Zbidi, a technocrat and medical doctor by training, is supported by secular parties including Nidaa Tounes of his close ally, the late president Beji Caid Essebsi.
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Mr. Biegun is considered a capable technocrat rather than a big-ideas person, unlike Mr. Bolton, who had firm ideological views that shaped his policy positions.
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The Chinese leader's economic adviser, an American-educated technocrat, is pushing for economic liberalization, but his agenda could be hurt by fears of a trade war.
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Ghani is a visionary technocrat who thinks twenty years ahead, with a deep understanding of what has destroyed his country and what might yet save it.
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Peru's electoral board tossed centrist technocrat Julio Guzman from the race after he rose to second in polls because his party did not comply with electoral procedures.
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SAK: I'm not for organizations as again, as a technocrat, I think organizations that have restriction of flow to the market are not something that I endorse.
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The populist coalition's own finance minister, Giovanni Tria, (a technocrat), had calculated that a deficit of 1.6% was the maximum to keep the debt from rising again.
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For the past year, the country has been run by a technocrat government of experts who have succeeded in accelerating anti-corruption reforms, drawing praise from Brussels.
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But like his foreign minister, he is another technocrat without a power base, and the M5S is more interested in economic and social affairs than foreign policy.
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Apple, Steve Jobs' other pet project, has become a confusing morass of products that are individually beautiful but lack the definitive vision of the late great technocrat.
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Widely regarded as a reformist and capable technocrat, Zhou revamped the state banking system, developed the country's central banking scheme, liberated interest rates and promoted yuan internationalisation.
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His approval ratings have plunged to below 1 percent but he has no obvious successor, although the parliamentary speaker and the technocrat finance minister are considered contenders.
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Everyone can agree to hate gauche augmented reality consumerism, but what happens if a patronizingly benevolent technocrat picks a utopia for us, and we don't even notice?
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His approval ratings have plunged to below 1 percent but he had no obvious successor, although the parliamentary speaker and the technocrat finance minister were considered contenders.
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Finance Minister Giovanni Tria, a technocrat with no party affiliation, defended Italy's much criticised expansionary fiscal policy but distanced himself from the proposed scheme of tax incentives.
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He's a 57-year-old technocrat who said he believes "in continuity," dashing the hopes of those wishing that a change in leadership could lead to reforms.
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Jonan teamed up for the talks with Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, a former World Bank managing director and the best-known technocrat internationally on Widodo's cabinet.
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Her party has a long history of favoring formal independence for Taiwan, although Ms. Tsai herself is a technocrat who has emphasized trying to strengthen the economy.
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Today, Sanders is seen as the revolutionary willing to challenge the Democratic establishment, whereas Warren is attacked by the left as a technocrat of suspect progressive credentials.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's conservative HDZ party, the biggest in the ruling centre-right coalition, filed a no-confidence motion against technocrat Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic on Tuesday.
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Economic View If you're an economic technocrat staring at a dashboard of official indicators of how the United States is doing, these look like pretty good times.
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Saudi oil policy reversed course after Saudi Aramco technocrat Khalid al-Falih took over as energy minister, shifting from a market share strategy to active market management.
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Grudging buy-in for this still-shaky deal came from the Islamist militia-led government in Tripoli and the formerly internationally-recognized secular/technocrat government they ousted 2014.
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Later, when it decided to throw money and troops into a massive counter-insurgency campaign to boost the war effort, it wanted a no-nonsense technocrat in charge.
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In its initial recommendations in July, the panel called for the next RBI governor to be a technocrat, and not a bureaucrat; a macro-economist; and team player.
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But can Facebook reform its 15-year legacy as devourer of all things private with a single sweeping, underedited screed from its copycat visionary and dark-pattern technocrat?
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Dejpasand, the proposed economy minister, has also worked as deputy head of the state Plan and Budget Organization, among other postings, and is widely seen as a technocrat.
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Sadr wants to see Abadi's proposed technocrat government approved but powerful parties within parliament have resisted, fearing the dismantling of patronage networks that sustain their wealth and influence.
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But his rise from unknown technocrat to a popular senator and now president has been extraordinarily rapid, propelled in large part by the support of his mentor, Uribe.
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The 2016 matchup—pitting the cosmopolitan technocrat Clinton against the jingoistic populist Trump—seemed perfectly suited to provide the long-awaited vindication of the New Democrats' electoral vision.
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We'll see if this is a political prime minister or one having a shorter political career not to mention even a technocrat ... there are still many question marks.
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The sight of the veteran mayor of France's third-largest city at the side of a youthful technocrat lent gravity and authority to Mr. Macron's unlikely presidential run.
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It said its engineers were capable of implementing big projects and noted that Minister of Water Resources Hassan Janabi was a technocrat with a PhD in water management.
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Mr. Duque was a technocrat working for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington when he decided to enter Colombian politics by joining Mr. Uribe's camp in 2014.
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Azmin, a soft-spoken technocrat, was handed a powerful new ministry and oversight over some state-owned companies that are at the core of Mahathir's economic reform program.
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He carried this off with aplomb in a series of recent meetings with international leaders, displaying the trappings of French regality and the pragmatism of a contemporary technocrat.
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Even without this last unfolding chapter, the book captures its subject: He's a profane technocrat with healthy self-regard who solves problems that often benefit the public good.
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Huntsman's past experience with high-profile diplomacy and the fact that he's more of a technocrat than an ideologue likely bodes well for his performance as an emissary.
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Salvini and the League are insisting on large-scale tax cuts next year, despite assurances from Economy Minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat, that the deficit will remain contained.
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He is seen by the markets as more of a technocrat than Prat-Gay, with less political ambition, said Miguel Kiguel, executive director of Buenos Aires-based consultancy Econviews.
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At the end of the hour-long protest, Basha repeated his call for a technocrat government that could purge officials with a criminal past and pass the vetting laws.
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Those seemed low hurdles for 5-Star to clear, but Zingaretti then added that he would not accept Conte, a technocrat who is close to 5-Star, as premier.
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PD leader Nicola Zingaretti has said he would not accept the outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a technocrat close to 25-Star who according to polls enjoys wide popularity.
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But Nathalie Loiseau, Emmanuel Macron's softly spoken leading candidate at elections to the European Parliament, is a technocrat who says that she is "not made for big glittery shows".
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And I think where the left fails is in the argument that behind every problem is some new government program that some technocrat or bureaucrat is going to solve.
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One option was appointing Yaresko at the head of a technocrat government, he said, and another was a political government led by the chief of the reformist Samopomich party.
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He is viewed by international oil executives and analysts as an agent of change but still a technocrat who has long been tied to the old Saudi Aramco culture.
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"How do you trust wolves to make laws at the sheepfold," former technocrat prime minister Dacian Ciolos said on his Facebook page before going to the protests in Bucharest.
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Emmanuel Macron, the 38-year-old economy minister, whiz-kid technocrat and former Rothschild banker, has crystallized the hopes, fears and rage in the labor turmoil now unsettling France.
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By instinct and by training, Mr. Buttigieg, the son of two Notre Dame professors, is a technocrat, one in whom political ambition has burned since he was a schoolboy.
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Scenes I never thought I would witness in Kabul, certainly not under a government led by a technocrat who spent most of his life in academia in the West.
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Mr. Macron is a pro-European technocrat who admires Silicon Valley, while Mr. Trump is an "America First" nationalist who is skeptical of multilateral institutions like the European Union.
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But after decades of hearing mostly one technocrat reliably articulate that policy to the outside world — Naimi — a proliferation of voices is causing more confusion than clarity, they say.
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Shtayyeh, seen largely as a technocrat, most recently headed the Palestinian Economic Council for Research and Development, a donor coordination and advocacy body established by the PLO in 1993.
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Two years ago, Barack Obama appointed a new Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter—a technocrat physicist, an arms control veteran, and a professor at Stanford—to help close this divide.
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He sounded a whole lot like a pragmatic technocrat, trying to make the government work better for everyone (albeit one with more inspiring rhetoric than most technocrats tend to use).
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He says he wants a technocrat as prime minister; he has floated a respected reformer, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, as a possible prosecutor-general, a key figure in the fight against corruption.
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Analysts said the peso was little moved by the news, since Meade, a former finance minister, is seen by investors as a technocrat committed to reining in the country's debt.
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was speaking after consultating parliamentary parties on whether a new cabinet could be formed after lawmakers ousted technocrat Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic in a vote on Thursday.
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That may explain why Mr Mattarella did not elevate the finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, a technocrat whose knowledge and skills will be needed in the job he already holds.
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Where Rajan is known for pithy one-liners at news conferences and speeches larded with social criticism, Patel is seen as more of a backroom technocrat who avoids the limelight.
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After all the parlour game manoeuvrings we at least have a technocrat now in charge who will stay on top of the job in hand, regain stability and be sensible.
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The idea of a technocrat government "was basically buried yesterday by Samopomich's announcement that it will not join any new coalition under any kind of government," Yuriy Lutsenko told parliament.
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His successor, José Antonio Meade, who has served two presidents as the minister in charge of finance, energy, foreign affairs and, most recently, social development, is more technocrat than politician.
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If no one party or alliance emerges victorious, President Sergio Mattarella could try to install a technocrat or coalition government with broad support in parliament, or call a new election.
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BRYANT & MAY: The Lonely Hour (Bantam, $28) finds Arthur Bryant (the eccentric one) and John May (the technocrat) working well past their bedtime — at the "lonely hour" of 4 a.m.
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Peter has of course decided that he belongs at the top of that meritocracy ladder, a benevolent technocrat to analyse the country like the consultant mercenary he was trained as.
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Most political parties have said they would not back a technocrat government in parliament and would push for early elections in the autumn if a coalition administration failed to take office.
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Now the party itself has turned to an outsider as its candidate for president: Jose Antonio Meade, a longtime technocrat who until recently wasn&apost even a member of the party.
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"The nonsense that is going on in respect of the Treasury or myself is not, I think, to the benefit of this country," said Gordhan, known as a blunt-talking technocrat.
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The new foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, who was previously in charge of health, is a technocrat with a quiet radicalism—the direct opposite of Mr Johnson, who preferred rhetoric to detail.
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Mario Monti, the economist who led an Italian technocrat government between 2011 and 2013, said Renzi could win the vote — and that promising to resign if he did not was misguided.
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The change would open the door to the candidacy of Meade, a softly-spoken technocrat who has served various cabinet posts in both PRI and conservative National Action Party (PAN) governments.
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Many have questioned the fairness of this year's elections after the board disqualified technocrat Julio Guzman because his party did not comply with electoral procedures when selecting him as a candidate.
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If Renzi refuses, the president could ask a technocrat, such as Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, or an institutional figure, such as Senate speaker Pietro Grasso, to lead a new government.
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Mr. Liu, a Harvard-educated technocrat, is widely seen as a driving force behind China's efforts to rein in high-flying entrepreneurs who have borrowed heavily to pay for global expansion.
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The New York Fed's board of directors, which is at an earlier stage in its search, has said that it was focused on finding a technocrat who understood the bank's work.
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We have surrendered our lives to technocrat billionaires who once upon a time set out to do no harm and have instead ended up destroying the world as we knew it.
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"I've seen the term associated with him as technocrat and everything else and yes, 'Mike will get it done,'" Walcott said, referring to the campaign's theme of competence above all else.
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Early results from Peru's presidential election this Sunday show Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a veteran conservative politician and technocrat, edging ahead of Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of disgraced 1990s strongman Alberto Fujimori.
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Namely, "his ability to quickly and effectively make the transition from a diplomat and a technocrat to a politician in what will likely be a bruising fight to replace Park," Seaman said.
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His style of government meant that all power was concentrated in his hands, so once he was gone, there was no residual technocrat or bureaucrat class left to pick up the pieces.
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Cuba was previously a leader in the political party of centrist technocrat Julio Guzman, Fujimori's main rival before the country's electoral board barred him from the first-round vote on a technicality.
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A quick-on-his feet technocrat, Mr. Macron has followed the traditional French elite path of exclusive schools and early proximity to the powerful, along with a banking stint at Rothschild & Company.
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Although the government candidate, José Antonio Meade, a well-respected technocrat who was a minister in two administrations, is a potentially strong contender, there is no second round in that country's elections.
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It was a stark departure from who he was — a self-described "system guy," a technocrat who believed at his core that the system was good, or at least not inherently bad.
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Warren developed a reputation over the course of the campaign as a kind of lefty technocrat, the woman with a thousand plans, in contrast to Sanders's more populist emphasis on mass mobilization.
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Yet what does it mean to be French at a time when a brilliant young technocrat is elected president on his promises to restore a flagging economy and mend a fragmented polity?
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Mikhail Mishustin, a former technocrat who headed Russia's tax service and was one of the leading officials responsible for bringing the state into the digital age, has become Russia's new prime minister.
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Just a few hours after Medvedev's resignation, Putin appointed a new prime minister to take his place: Mikhail Mishustin, a technocrat who's been in charge of Russia's tax services for a decade.
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Local media reported on Wednesday that Abrahamyan might be replaced by the 53-year-old technocrat Karen Karapetyan, a former head of the national gas distributing company ArmRosGazprom and later Yerevan mayor.
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Now aged 70 he has shrugged off a decades-old image of a grey technocrat and promises to roll back France's 35-hour working week and scrap a wealth tax if elected.
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"We will tell Mattarella that, in the case of an interim government, the (prime minister) must come from the ranks of the side that won and not be a technocrat," Salvini said.
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SAK: You see I am a technocrat and you're right that the energy and politics do work together but it works together geopolitically and making sure that you can get into different countries.
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TIRANA (Reuters) - Members of Albania's opposition Democratic Party pitched a giant tent outside Prime Minister Edi Rama's office on Saturday after thousands of protesters rallied to demand free elections and a technocrat government.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's reformist Samopomich party has effectively buried lawmakers' plans to replace Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's government with a technocrat cabinet, a senior lawmaker in President Petro Poroshenko's party said on Tuesday.
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Jonathan Chait, for instance, is a liberal technocrat, nostalgic for the certitude of Cold War liberalism and adept at writing forcefully wonkish briefs for Democratic Party policies on health care and economic policy.
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Almost immediately after Pérez appointed Lopetegui — a technocrat, training-ground coach — he decided he needed a more authoritarian hand to discipline a squad he thought had grown fat on the fruits of success.
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The animating concern was whether Mr. Rhodes, perceived by the show's staff as more of a technocrat than a reporter, planned to wrest control and finally fold the show into the news organization.
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What's next: Mr. Medvedev's replacement is a virtually unknown technocrat, and it's unclear if the resignations on Wednesday signal a rift in Russia's political elite or a coordinated plan to reshape the system.
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HIGH TAX RATES The challenge for Conte, a technocrat close to 5-Star, is to convince Italians that enforcing tax compliance can lead to a reduction in the nation's notoriously high tax levels.
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Lawmakers said technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko was likely to be dropped; Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicious, a key driver for privatisation, had already resigned over what he said was meddling by vested interests.
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When President Ghani, a Western-educated technocrat, selected General Dostum as his running mate two years ago in an effort to gain the support of his ethnic Uzbek constituency, it immediately raised concerns.
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But if you didn't know that and you walked into the middle of his Monday speech at the National Press Club, it would have been easy to mistake him for a liberal technocrat.
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Rutkow paints convincing portrayals of technocrat-heroes like Logan Page and Thomas MacDonald at the federal road office, who handled their jobs with efficiency and prudence even while commanding staggering amounts of money.
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In 2400, Ms. Harwood worked for a soft-core site called GlamGirls and became friendly with its owner, Tim Stokely, an earnest technocrat who looks like Mark Zuckerberg by way of Savile Row.
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When he announced his candidacy, the punditocracy declared his campaign dead on arrival, but no one with his resources has tried his strategy, and the Iowa chaos gives his technocrat candidacy a new rationale.
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Between the lines: By nominating Stephen Moore to the board — a Republican partisan rather than an economic technocrat — Trump turned the genteel if inefficient process of Fed nominations into something much more bare-knuckled.
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Though the electoral authorities have still to declare him formally as the winner, because of a small number of disputed ballots, the official count gives the center-right technocrat 50.12 percent of the votes.
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"Using my constitutional right, I nominate a technocrat, a professional who has not been in any political party, as candidate for prime minister," Dodon told reporters at a briefing after consultations with political parties.
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Rome on Thursday targeted a budget deficit of 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for the next three years, marking a victory for party chiefs over economy minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat.
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If Mattarella decides not to dissolve parliament, he could try to install an unelected "technocrat" administration of which there have been several examples in Italy's recent history, though an alternative parliamentary majority appears elusive.
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Where Clinton came off as a levelheaded technocrat — the person she thinks you'd want in charge in a crisis — Sanders's debate answers reflected the same anger and betrayal heard in questions from the audience.
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Sure, the technocrat-turned-president has a lot on his plate right now — compelling stuff like recasting France as an innovative tech hub, rejiggering his country's archaic work rules and reviving its flagging economy.
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It was due to Most's insistence on a technocrat prime minister that the HDZ brought Oreskovic in as a financial expert to help get the newest European Union member out of the economic crisis.
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In a nail-biting finish to Peru's presidential election, center-right technocrat Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is apparently inching towards the narrowest of victories over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of disgraced 2130s autocrat Alberto Fujimori.
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In a nail-biting finish to Peru's presidential election, center-right technocrat Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is apparently inching towards the narrowest of victories over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of disgraced 1990s autocrat Alberto Fujimori.
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Essid, a technocrat who came to office less than two years ago, has been under fire for slow progress on a financial reforms package to create growth and jobs, initiatives demanded by Tunisia's multilateral lenders.
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Those seemed low hurdles for 5-Star to clear, but Zingaretti then added that he would also not accept giving a fresh mandate to the outgoing Conte, a technocrat who is close to 5-Star.
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Conte, a technocrat leader with no political support base, called a news conference to make the extraordinary ultimatum after months of bickering inside his year-old coalition of right-wing populists and anti-establishment lawmakers.
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Yet the Sunday result revealed a country more evenly divided between the two candidates, with a slight advantage for Mr. Kuczynski, a mild-mannered former World Bank official who appealed to voters as a technocrat.
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Aloft an economic boom fueled by Chinese demand for Brazilian iron ore, soy and oil, Lula marketed Rousseff as a no-nonsense technocrat who would preserve generous social policies that helped lift millions from poverty.
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Jerry Brown — Governor Moonbeam — is back, and during his second stint in office has been a pragmatic, results-focused technocrat who will leave behind a multibillion-dollar budget surplus when his term ends in January.
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BEIJING — Over the last year, Liu He, a soft-spoken, American-educated technocrat, has consolidated his status as President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, amassing influence that some believe rivals that of the prime minister.
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At her core she is a smart and serious technocrat with a passion for consumer protection and banking reform but rather than embrace that core, she's faltered trying to be all things to all people.
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That tactic seems fraught with danger, and it is far from clear that the Democratic grassroots are really seeking a billionaire technocrat who for years supported the controversial police practice known as stop and frisk.
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Emmanuel Macron, a center-left technocrat from the new En Marche party, won the French election on Sunday — beating the far-right National Front's Marine Le Pen by a decisive 65.5 percent to 34.5 percent.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi named a little-known technocrat as prime minister on Wednesday after parliament ousted Habib Essid in a vote of no-confidence over his handling of economic reforms and security.
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Since his return to Algeria this year after years in exile under the cloud of a corruption scandal, Khelil, a U.S. educated former World Bank technocrat and OPEC president, has been welcomed back by the FLN.
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The leftist Five Star Movement and the right-wing Lega agreed Thursday night on a 2.4 percent deficit target for 2019 – despite opposition from some technocrat members in the government, including the finance minister, Giovanni Tria.
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In Italy, the government on Thursday targeted a budget deficit of 2.4 percent of gross domestic product for the next three years, marking a victory for party chiefs over Economy Minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat.
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The Italian government on Thursday targeted a budget deficit of 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for the next three years, marking a victory for party chiefs over economy minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat.
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Cottarelli would be a calming choice for the financial markets, but any technocrat administration would likely only be a short-term solution because the majority of parliamentarians have said they would not support such a government.
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For HNA's corporate heritage draws from reform experiments launched in the late 1980s, when Wang Qishan was a promising young technocrat rising in the shadow of his powerful father-in-law, Communist party elder Yao Yilin.
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Italy would need the backing of a large majority of euro zone finance ministers to have a new ECB board member appointed - which is unlikely unless Rome proposes a non-party technocrat, an EU official said.
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The election follows a year of a technocrat government in Romania - the EU's fastest-growing economy but also one of its poorest - put in place after massive street protests brought down the previous PSD-led government.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian presidential election favorite Keiko Fujimori is losing ground to technocrat Julio Guzman, whose candidacy faces legal questions, and may be heading toward a tight run-off vote, according to a poll published Sunday.
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President Klaus Iohannis last November named Dacian Ciolos, a former European Commissioner, to form a technocrat government with a one-year mandate, to replace that of leftist Victor Ponta who quit over a deadly nightclub fire.
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The UNAIDS board and the office of the secretary-general should move with haste, demanding Sidibé and his cohort in the secretariat step down before the new year and placing a credible technocrat in temporary leadership.
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Since last year, it has been led by Xu Lin, 54, a party technocrat and former propaganda official, who, like other influential officials who previously worked beside Mr. Xi in Shanghai, has soared through the ranks.
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He depicts Timothy Geithner, the treasury secretary during President Barack Obama's first, hairy term in office, as a technocrat ne plus ultra, a public servant committed to upholding the financial system, which he ultimately did do.
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Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts was transmogrified from an immigrant success story and consummate technocrat into a namby-pamby liberal who opposed the Pledge of Allegiance and succored criminals like the murderer and rapist William Horton.
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On the ballot was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated global technocrat with so much government experience it practically oozed from her pores, and a group of men, most notably the professional soccer player George Weah.
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Mr. Ghani, a technocrat who has spent much of his life in the West, is seen by many as so consumed by a reformist agenda that he doesn't realize the extent of the bubbling political tensions.
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Obama's top-tier Cabinet posts included a secretary of state who ran against him in the primary, a secretary of defense who was a lifelong Republican, and a Treasury secretary who was a largely apolitical technocrat.
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For years, the left has complained about the president's habit of governing as a cautious technocrat, yet Sanders supporters, who claim to be agitated and agitating for change, overwhelmingly favor him, according to that NBC/WSJ poll.
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Meade, a mild-mannered technocrat with Cabinet positions in multiple PRI administrations, had struggled in vain to address the issue of corruption, which Lopez Obrador made the central issue of a campaign that resonated strongly with Mexicans.
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Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat, had initially sought a deficit as low as 1.6 percent next year, which would allow Italy to respect EU demands to reduce its fiscal shortfall progressively and cut the country's huge debt burden.
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Whether it's a technocrat or someone from the current government, the next leader will also then be tasked with completing the budget for 2017, finalising the electoral law, and preparing the country for fresh elections next year.
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"WE ARE READY" If Mattarella decides not to dissolve parliament, he could try to install an unelected "technocrat" administration of which there have been several examples in Italy's recent history, though an alternative parliamentary majority appears elusive.
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On Thursday, Italy's government targeted the budget deficit at 2.4 percent of gross domestic product for the next three years, defying Brussels and marking a victory for party chiefs over economy minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat.
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Ulyukayev, a 60-year-old technocrat whose ministry oversees a politically-charged sale of state assets, is the highest-ranking Russian official to be detained while in office since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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His resignation brings to a head a political crisis that has dogged the five-month-old administration of technocrat Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic and has hampered plans to improve Croatia's business climate and revive a moribund economy.
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Although Prince Muhammad calls the shots, it is possible that he will listen to the soft-spoken, Texas-educated technocrat who has been in the oil industry longer than the 30-year-old prince has been alive.
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In that post, he broke from his reputation as an apolitical technocrat when he led an angry defense of the government against a United Nations report condemning Mexico for its use of torture on suspects in detention.
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It goes without saying that a President Trump would never sign off on a large-scale extension of EPA carbon rules, not even if God himself returned to earth and revealed himself to be a liberal technocrat.
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Danyliuk took office on Thursday in the biggest political shakeup in Ukraine since the 2013/2014 Maidan street protests brought a pro-Western leadership to power, displacing a U.S.-born technocrat who had been favored by Washington.
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They knew it when he was mayor — more iconoclast technocrat than conservative crusader — with a habit of scooping up sidewalk trash, calling in potholes and staring up, nodding, at park-dwelling homeless men with grievances to air.
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The technocrat minister, who is seen as a moderate in a eurosceptic government dominated by firebrands like far-right leader Matteo Salvini, also told reporters that Italy could comply with EU fiscal rules without adopting new measures.
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Italy's government on Thursday targeted the budget deficit at 2.4 percent of gross domestic product for the next three years, defying Brussels and marking a victory for party chiefs over economy minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat.
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Both the League and 5-Star have vociferously denounced previous suggestions that the next prime minister might be a technocrat, saying that the premier needed to be a politician who had won legitimacy from the ballot-box.
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Under a preliminary Saudi-brokered pact, the separatists would be included in a new technocrat Cabinet and both sides' forces placed under control of the Yemeni interior and defense ministries, sources familiar with the talks had said.
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They see the 39-year-old Mr. Macron as an ideal opponent, a former investment banker for Rothschild and a liberal elite technocrat who represents precisely the interests of "savage globalization" that Ms. Le Pen rails against.
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Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 74, campaigned as a technocrat who had proven his integrity by being sacked for falling out with powerful business tycoons after just three months serving as prime minister in 2017 under veteran ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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BAGHDAD, March 21 (Reuters) - Influential Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leading protests to demand a technocrat government to fight graft, urged authorities on Monday to give every Iraqi a direct share from the nation's oil revenues.
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POLITICS (*) Italy's government on Thursday targeted the budget deficit at 2.4 percent of gross domestic product for the next three years, defying Brussels and marking a victory for party chiefs over economy minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat.
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Ulyukayev, a 60-year-old technocrat whose ministry has been overseeing a sell-off of state assets, is the highest-ranking Russian official to be arrested while in office since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Cyan, who PIA described as a 'professional technocrat', will face an uphill task in returning the airline to profitability and improving the carrier's reputation which was dented by a plane crash in December and allegations of financial mismanagement.
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A technocrat may see little difference between politics and public policy—rife with controversy and personal perspectives—and less fraught areas where Google thrives, like store hours, shortest distances between locations, historical facts, the words inside a book.
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The change opens the door to the candidacy of Pena Nieto's finance minister, Jose Antonio Meade, a soft-spoken technocrat who has served in various cabinet posts under both the PRI and the conservative National Action Party (PAN).
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Papademos, an economist who is more of a technocrat than a politician, was catapulted to centre stage in Greece's debt crisis when he became caretaker prime minister from late 2011 to May 2012, fusing a fragile governing coalition.
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Papademos, an economist who is more of a technocrat than a politician, was catapulted to center stage in Greece's debt crisis when he became caretaker prime minister from late 2011 to May 2012, fusing a fragile governing coalition.
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Goldfajn, 50, has been widely praised on Wall Street for his orthodox approach to economics and is expected by investors to be less vulnerable to political interference than Tombini, a career technocrat appointed by the previous leftist government.
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Mr. Dudley's pointed comments, while delivered with the care and caution of a seasoned technocrat, come as President Trump looks to remake the Federal Reserve with policymakers who are more in tune with his anti-regulatory mind-set.
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The source told Reuters the vote could be delayed until the end of the year, with names in the air to run the transition including conservative former minister Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi and technocrat and former prime minister Ahmed Benbitour.
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It was also the fact that Obama initially presented himself as an aloof technocrat in the tradition of Gary Hart, someone who had little direct ties with the black community and with the tradition of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The party that called the vote, the conservative HDZ, helped install technocrat Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic five months ago but fell out with him over a conflict of interest case involving the HDZ leader, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Karamarko.
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"First, there was Spilhaus himself, who had all the attributes of a fascinating character — a well-meaning and worldly technocrat in the great age of technocrats — but was someone who had been for the most part forgotten," Freidrichs explained.
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"Let us stay together to have free and fair elections which we can only achieve by kicking out this government of crime and (replacing it with) the technocrat government of free elections," Democrat leader Lulzim Basha told the rally.
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Kuczynski, a 78-year-old technocrat who has worked on Wall Street and founded a non-profit to deliver clean water to poor Peruvians, provided his testimony to prosecutors earlier this year and denied wrongdoing, according to local media.
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But she needs at least 50 percent to win outright and recent polls show her virtually tied in a second-round runoff against Julio Guzman, a centrist technocrat who has climbed quickly as he galvanizes her opponents behind him.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government on Thursday targeted the budget deficit at 211.6 percent of gross domestic product for the next three years, defying Brussels and marking a victory for party chiefs over economy minister Giovanni Tria, an unaffiliated technocrat.
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His appointment would spell the departure of Ukraine's current finance minister, Natalia Yaresko, a foreign-born technocrat who is respected in Washington and who had put her own name forward to become prime minister as late as last week.
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Clinton comes across less as a firebrand than as a technocrat at home with her powerful audience, willing to be critical of large financial institutions but more inclined to view them as partners in restoring the country's economic health.
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Being a senior royal carries a certain clout and may put the prince in the inner circle of power brokers, a group Mr. Falih, a technocrat, struggled to break into despite being responsible for much of the Saudi economy.
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In 2010, Salam Fayyad, then the technocrat prime minister who gained the confidence of the West, helped throw products made in the settlements into a bonfire during a protest in the Palestinian town of Salfit, not far from Barkan.
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ROME (Reuters) - President Sergio Mattarella summoned Carlo Cottarelli, a former senior director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for talks on Monday, his office said in a statement - a move that suggested he may ask him to head a technocrat government.
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Del Pino, a low-profile technocrat whom oil analysts see as a reassuring figure despite the production drop on his watch, remains nominally at the helm of PDVSA despite losing many of his top executives in a January shake-up.
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Strategists are also watching to see the dynamic at the meeting, now that Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has replaced longtime oil minister Ali al-Naimi with the former head of Saudi Aramco Khalid Al-Falih, a respected technocrat.
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He marketed himself not as a technocrat, ensconced in a political establishment, to which he callously referred as a "swamp"; instead, he presented himself as a businessman who could employ efficient public administrators to carry out his plans for the country.
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Described as a highly capable technocrat but lacking the charisma and public popularity that Soleimani garnered, Qaani's influence will be tested as he tries to shape the future operations of the military wing charged with exporting Tehran's brand of political Islam.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - A preliminary deal between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and southern separatists to end a power struggle in Aden will see the separatists included in a new technocrat cabinet and both sides' forces placed under government control, sources said.
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Its leaders are now serving long jail terms, but another alleged member is awaiting trial on charges of sending a booby-trapped parcel in 2017 to Lucas Papademos, a technocrat who was also briefly prime minister during the euro crisis.
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The HDZ, the biggest party in the center-right coalition, filed a no-confidence motion on Tuesday against technocrat Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic over his handling of a row between Karamarko and Bozo Petrov, leader of junior coalition party Most ("Bridge").
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Three years on, the U.S.-educated former World Bank technocrat and OPEC president has returned from exile, welcomed with open arms by the ruling FLN party, which barely mentions the past scandal other than to dismiss it as a smear.
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It's hard to remember now, but four years ago Russia seemed poised for liberalization, with a Twitter-happy technocrat, Dmitri A. Medvedev, in the Kremlin and quite a few of my media colleagues at the forefront of a boisterous protest movement.
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President Sergio Mattarella will meet party leaders on Monday to try to secure a coalition deal following an inconclusive March 4 election, but failing that, is expected to seek backing for a technocrat government to help keep Italy's finances on track.
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When Abadi became prime minister four years ago, he was seen as a colorless technocrat with scant chance of successfully governing Iraq's fractious ethnic and sectarian groups -- but there's nothing quite like being invaded by ISIS to bring a nation together!
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KABUL, Afghanistan — When Ashraf Ghani, a former academic and World Bank technocrat, took office as the president of Afghanistan in 2014, he promised to change the way the country was governed by putting a new generation of Afghans into leadership positions.
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Muhyiddin could tap someone with finance experience as the finance minister or keep the role himself and name a technocrat as his deputy in the department, said a source who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of an official announcement.
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A populist coalition that had been set to form a government nominated a skeptic of the European Union to be the economy minister, but the proposal was vetoed by Italy's president, who subsequently named a technocrat to temporarily take charge instead.
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He was an unelected technocrat who brought together three of Greece's fractious parties in order to reach agreement with international creditors and keep Greece in the euro at a time when the country's membership in the common currency was in jeopardy.
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Several thousand members of the Democratic Party and its lawmakers have camped out since Saturday in an 800 square meter tent in front of Prime Minister Edi Rama's office, demanding a technocrat government to set the stage for free elections.
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That this idiosyncratic and flawed but ultimately highly effective technocrat served for the 12 years between 2002 and 2014 was the strange result of a man being unexpectedly aligned with the historical times — or, we might say, something of a fluke.
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Dee paints a persuasive portrait of an affectless technocrat, neither friendly nor unfriendly, neither left wing nor right wing, who does an adequate job of imitating the locals yet continues to wear bespoke white dress shirts beneath his Patagonia fleeces.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko threw her hat into the ring on Tuesday to head a technocrat government of people uncompromised by "a political past" after weeks of speculation over whether she would try to replace Arseny Yatseniuk.
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President Sergio Mattarella has called a final round of talks with party leaders on Monday to try to secure a coalition deal but, failing that, he is expected to seek support for a technocrat, unity government to draw up the budget.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine farmers and grains exporters are lobbying President-elect Alberto Fernandez to name a market-friendly technocrat to oversee the country's all-important farm sector as agriculture minister at a time of great uncertainty for the sector.
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"Because for all the advances in computer interface, there is nothing to beat language [the ability to do human-level speech recognition]," he said during a fireside chat with Nandan Nilekani — India's premier technocrat and the brain behind the Aadhaar identification system.
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The idea that what voters truly desire is a dispassionate technocrat—who happens to be a billionaire plutocrat to boot—is totally at odds with the reality of this frenzied election season in particular and of politics in the Obama era in general.
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ROME, May 27 (Reuters) - President Sergio Mattarella summoned Carlo Cottarelli, a former senior director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for talks on Monday, his office said in a statement - a move that suggested he may ask him to head a technocrat government.
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He is a technocrat with a wealth of experience in both the private sector (he was chief economist for Shell in 1995-97) and in government (he was business secretary in the coalition) and lots of ideas for fixing problems like intergenerational inequality.
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Italy is no stranger to unelected, "technocrat" prime ministers, but in the past they have usually been called in by the president to get the country out of a crisis, and they have picked their own cabinet and set their own agenda.
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Militants were persuaded to stop the attacks by promises of more investment and jobs from visiting officials including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a technocrat who stood in for President Muhammadu Buhari this year while he had seven weeks of medical treatment in London.
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The outcome demonstrated that the majority of Iranians are either confident in the political direction that Rouhani's moderate, educated and technocrat team is taking, or they voted to prevent the conservative hardliners, who oppose engagements with the West, from winning the elections. 2.
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In a Democratic primary featuring not one but two left-wing frontrunners in Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, each of whom has (in their own way) made challenging corporate power and inequality their rallying cry, the billionaire technocrat is wondering: Why not me?
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"Clearly, he thought Dilma was somebody he could easily control, a technocrat who would run the machine, which is pretty ironic given that she's proven to be a disastrous administrator," said Mr. Avelar, who now teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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He has built a reputation as a technocrat who brought a new level of competence to a city with a long history of bad government, successfully tackling high debt, reducing the vulnerability of the public tender system to corruption and bringing down crime.
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The new bloc in the 130-member Congress could help center-right technocrat Kuczynski, a former Wall Street investor, govern for the rest of his term, after a tumultuous 17 first months in office that were marked by clashes with Keiko's supporters.
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Mr. Joko, 57, a moderate technocrat with an enthusiasm for infrastructure projects and a reputation for celebrating Indonesia's religious and ethnic diversity, was accused by supporters of Mr. Prabowo of being a secret Christian who was selling the country to foreign investors.
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Especially in the Republican primaries, but again in his inaugural speech, Trump presented himself not as a right-wing ideologue but as a sort of super-competent technocrat, defining a few big problems ("We're always losing") and pledging to fix them ("I alone…").
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Mr. Saar, a hawkish ideologue and technocrat, had argued that only he could return Likud and its right-wing allies to power and that Mr. Netanyahu was "blocked" after failing to form a government after the two previous elections, in April and September.
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But in Malta the mission did not encounter the boyish technocrat once slated to replace Donald Tusk as president of the EU Council in Brussels, but a different man entirely: an uncompromising prime minister whose story, Giegold conceded, no longer added up.
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Meade, a technocrat with a sharp command of the minutiae of the economy, launched his campaign for the PRI candidacy in a straw sombrero festooned with red and green streamers in the poor southern town of San Juan Chamula on Dec. 14.
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Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, a widely-respected technocrat who returned to Indonesia in July after six years as World Bank managing director, vigorously defended the amnesty at a hearing "The tax amnesty policy was not proposed to pardon tax evaders at all," she said.
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"The idea is to kick off the market with some initiative that would generate a positive leverage effect," Padoan, a technocrat who took over as finance minister in 2014 and was previously deputy secretary-general at the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development, said.
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The alleged wise men of the center keep imagining that the problem with Trumpism is just its vulgarity and race-baiting, and that a benevolent technocrat could step in and lead the country out of gridlock and polarization, into the broad, sunlit uplands of reform.
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The Colorado governor's race, meanwhile, is the country's most interesting, bringing together an eclectic cast whose fates will speak volumes about what kind of candidate — young or old, male or female, entrepreneur or technocrat, affluent or not — voters want in the aftermath of Trump's election.
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Economy Minister Giovanni Tria, both technocrat appointees, have held private conversations with President Sergio Mattarella in recent days on ways of shielding Italy from a gathering political and financial storm, according to two Italian officials with knowledge of the matter.
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Related: Liberals Are Starting to Dismantle the Conservatives' Legal Legacy in Canada He largely led his party as a technocrat which meant there was little room for social conservatives (or social progressives, for that matter) or ideologues in the senior ranks of his government.
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In separate remarks that may further complicate talks with the European Commission over Italy's growing debt, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a technocrat who is seen as a moderate voice in Rome's euroskeptic executive, sided with Salvini after a summit with EU leaders in Brussels.
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In separate remarks that may further complicate talks with the European Commission over Italy's growing debt, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a technocrat who is seen as a moderate voice in Rome's eurosceptic executive, sided with Salvini after a summit with EU leaders in Brussels.
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Another was that Mr. Mishustin was in fact a mere technocrat, while Mr. Medvedev, in his new role in the newly created position of vice chairman of Russia's Security Council, was parked in a vice-president-style function that made him the heir apparent.
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In the interview published on Monday, Conte, a technocrat in charge of a populist coalition, repeated his threat to quit if the ruling League and 5-Star parties were not prepared to reach a deal to avert EU disciplinary action over their 2019 budget.
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The technocrat government, which has a one-year mandate and fragile parliamentary support has calculated that the hikes, as well as other bonuses approved on Monday and championed by the leftist Social Democrat Party, would raise the public sector wage bill by 4.85 billion lei ($1.2 billion).
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A dour technocrat with a doctorate from MIT, Videgaray has also been the highest profile face of the government's sweeping pro-market reforms, including the liberalization of the state-controlled energy sector, that have yet to live up to their promise of higher growth and lower bills.
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Are the hardliners prepared to trust the belief of the moderates -- President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and his technocrat team -- that engaging with the United States is not going be detrimental to the geopolitical, socio-political, socio-economic, strategic and national interests of Iran?
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For Thaler and Sunstein, daddy is a "choice architect" — a skilled and intelligent technocrat who uses good data, good social science and his own intelligence to figure out what people would really want to do, if only they were as smart and well informed as the choice architect.
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Papademos, a low-key economist who is more of a technocrat than a politician, was catapulted to the forefront of Greece's debt crisis when he was coaxed into briefly becoming caretaker prime minister from late 2011 to May 2012, fusing a fragile governing coalition between socialists and conservatives.
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"The long tradition of the oil minister as a technocrat non-royal has been broken, and the best theory is that departing minister Khalid Al Falih was too resistant to the pace of change pursued by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman," wrote Paul Sankey, energy analyst with Mizuho.
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In a now-deleted Instagram post, rapper Azealia Banks revealed that the digital version of her latest mixtape, Yung Rapunxel II, will feature a song telling a story of "an ungrateful technocrat" whose ego "becomes too big for his britches" and is publicly executed in the year 3030.
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And I say that as a technocrat who thinks Warren's transition plan makes sense on its own terms and thought Harris ended up with a more interesting plan than she got credit for — essentially inverting the debate by proposing a public health insurance system with a private option.
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"The current situation – as unsettling as it might be for us technocrat elites – is actually the most interesting time I can remember in easily a decade," Thomas Lembong, chairman of the Indonesian investment coordinating board and former trade minister told a CNBC panel at the World Economic Forum on Thursday.
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The Austin, Texas technocrat bacchanalia known as South By Southwest may have been making headlines recently for the festival's threat to call immigration authorities on any foreign bands caught playing unauthorized shows, but it turns out that draconian contractual stipulations aren't the only injustices being committed at this year's SXSW.
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Faith politics figured prominently in the election, which pitted Mr. Joko, a moderate technocrat who has a reputation for celebrating diversity, against Mr. Prabowo, who is backed by some hard-line Islamists and is known as a ruthless former general and onetime son-in-law of the longtime dictator Suharto.
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"I do not see the need to change the current system," Giovanni Tria, a technocrat not linked to Italy's ruling parties, said in an interview with Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire, when asked about a plan devised by the ruling coalition that would increase political control over the appointment of the central bank's management.
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Although elected as a Republican, he governed as a data-driven technocrat: He started a $20 billion climate change adaptation plan in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, made aggressive strides in public health by restricting smoking and banning trans fats and stewarded the trend of falling crime he inherited upon taking office.
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Mr. Macron, 39, the former banker and cool technocrat, educated at France's finest schools and the beneficiary of a meteoric rise, faced off against Ms. Le Pen, 48, the scion of one of the country's most notorious political families, the inheritor of a far-right party who has tried to move it toward the center.
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But as a hawkish technocrat, Mr. Saar has tried to outflank Mr. Netanyahu from the right, pledging to carry out annexation of territory in the occupied West Bank and other actions to bolster Israel's settlement enterprise and land claims there — things that Mr. Netanyahu has also long promised but has avoided doing under international pressure.
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The 2008 election of Barack Obama, a well-credentialed technocrat who identified very strongly with the character of Spock from Star Trek, gave the old-time scientistic-progressive religion new currency on the left and ushered in a cozy relationship between the Democratic Party and billionaire techno-monopolists who had formerly fashioned themselves as government-skeptical libertarians.
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The country's policy of open borders as well as extending health care and protection to Venezuelans continued under his successor Iván Duque, a right-of-center technocrat, who, at first glance, would not be an obvious candidate for expressing such solidarity with poor Venezuelans — especially since many of his compatriots are less sympathetic to their plight.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's election and the appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education sends an anti-professional politician, anti-technocrat, pro-business message.
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Romney's branding is hardly ideal, but a right-leaning technocrat-cum-"safe hand" isn't all that bad an identity for the space he'd need to fill: Recall that most Americans actually perceived him as closer to them ideologically than Barack Obama in 2012, and that was in a campaign where Romney ran on "you didn't build that" and a tax plan designed to protect his right flank in the primaries.
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Within the administration and among those who deal with the Treasury, Mr. Lew is seen as a cautious technocrat, with a grasp of issues and which levers to pull that reflects his experience over decades — as top adviser in the Reagan era to the House speaker, Thomas P. O'Neill; budget director to both President Bill Clinton and Mr. Obama; deputy to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and Mr. Obama's White House chief of staff.
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Dlamini-Zuma was regarded as a capable technocrat during her time as South Africa's minister of home affairs between 2009 and 2012 and has since gained international exposure during her time as the first female head of the AU. However, critics of Dlamini-Zuma, a medical doctor trained in South Africa and Britain, say she should have done more to intervene when former president Thabo Mbeki denied that HIV causes AIDs and imposed anti-scientific policies.
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It takes a lot of hubris for a mealy-mouthed technocrat like Bloomberg sees the populist rise of Bernie SandersBernie Sanders2900 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 220006 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides The Memo: Democrats confront prospect of long primary MORE, Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenWarren goes local in race to build 2202 movement 2628 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 28500 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides MORE, and Donald Trump and think that his brand of centrism is poised to catch on.
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Russian CEOs told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos that they hoped Putin's reforms, that hand more power to Russia's parliament and led to the installation of a new technocrat Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, can lead to improvements not only to Russia but to its relations with other global powers, especially the U.S. "I very much hope that it would also lead to changes in relations (with the U.S.) but the problem is that this is a two-way street," Herman Gref, the chief executive and chairman of Sberbank, told CNBC Tuesday.
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