List of directors general of CERN

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Director-General of CERN
Directeur général or Directrice générale
Incumbent Fabiola Gianotti since 1 January 2016
Abbreviation	DG
Reports to	CERN Council
Appointer	CERN Council
Term length	5 years typical length
Precursor	Secretary-General
Formation	October 1954
First holder	Felix Bloch

CERN directors general typically serve 5 year terms beginning on January 1.

List

In office	Directors General	Country
1952–1954	Edoardo Amaldi (Secretary-General)	Italy
1954–1955	Felix Bloch	Switzerland
1955–1960	Cornelis Bakker	Netherlands
1960–1961	John Adams (acting director)	United Kingdom
1961–1965	Victor Frederick Weisskopf	United States
1966–1970	Bernard Gregory	France
1971–1975	Willibald Jentschke (co-directors)	Austria
1971–1975	John Adams (co-directors)	United Kingdom
1976–1980	Léon Van Hove (co-directors)	Belgium
1976–1980	John Adams (co-directors)	United Kingdom
1981–1988	Herwig Schopper	Germany
1989–1993	Carlo Rubbia	Italy
1994–1998	Christopher Llewellyn Smith	United Kingdom
1999–2003	Luciano Maiani	San Marino
2004–2008	Robert Aymar	France
2009–2015	Rolf-Dieter Heuer	Germany
2016–2020	Fabiola Gianotti	Italy
2021–2025	Fabiola Gianotti	Italy
2026–2031	Mark Thomson	United Kingdom

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Rubbia, Carlo; Soergel, Volker; Jacob, Maurice René Michel (1990). Leon Van Hove, 1924–1990. Geneva: CERN. doi:10.17181/CERN.Z7V2.R44Z.
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