Word: technocrat
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...With many of China's 60 million registered investors sharing Chen's sense of outrage, the pressure on the country's new stock cop is palpable. Shang Fulin, a little-known technocrat, landed in the hot seat last week when he was named chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). His challenge: to impose order on a stock market that a leading Chinese economist once described as worse than a casino (because "at least casinos have rules"). Shang arrives at a precarious juncture. Even as China's GDP has grown 8% annually, its market has sunk more than...
...Shang up to the task? Some observers are skeptical, given that he has no public record as a reformer with a commitment to greater openness. "We're worried he's simply a technocrat and not an advocate," says a senior executive at a multinational investment bank, "and that could affect the progress of reforms...
...tobacco and cattle farmer. After excelling at his high school, Kibaki studied at Uganda's Makerere University, one of Africa's best, and at the London School of Economics. He helped draw up the first Kenyan constitution and then served as Kenyatta's Finance Minister. A serious and clean technocrat, he can still sound as if he's addressing a class of economics students. He fell out with Moi in the 1980s and quit KANU to run for the presidency in Kenya's first real multiparty elections in 1992. Given to colorful shirts much like Nelson Mandela's, Kibaki stood...
...That places Hu, a smart but bland technocrat, in the awkward position of having to consolidate his power through Machiavellian wiles. Every Chinese leader since Mao has signaled his own arrival by ousting his predecessor's followers. Deng Xiaoping cast out Mao's choice, Hua Guofeng, to become China's supreme leader in 1978. And Jiang himself declared his independence in 1995 by ordering the arrest on corruption charges of Deng's faithful Beijing Party chief, Chen Xitong. "The congress has resolved very little, and Hu will have to move against someone" in Jiang's camp to show his strength...
Uribe has developed a reputation as an independent technocrat who does not engage in patronage and cronyism, said John H. Coatsworth, director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...