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{{Infobox official post | post = Director-General | body = CERN | native_name = ''Directeur général'' or ''Directrice générale'' <!--someone with better French than me, please check this--> | flag = | flagsize = | flagborder = | flagcaption = | insignia = | insigniasize = | insigniacaption = | image = Mark Thomson in his CERN office.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | incumbent = [[Mark Thomson (physicist)|Mark Thomson]] | incumbentsince = 1 January 2026 | type = | status = | department = | style = | member_of = | reports_to = CERN Council | residence = | seat = | nominator = | appointer = CERN Council | appointer_qualified = | termlength = 5 years | termlength_qualified = typical length | constituting_instrument = | precursor = Secretary-General | formation = October 1954 | first = [[Felix Bloch]] | last = | abolished = | succession = | abbreviation = DG | unofficial_names = | deputy = | salary = | website = }}
[[CERN]] directors general typically serve 5 year terms beginning on January 1.
==List== {|class="wikitable sortable" |- !In office !Directors General !Country |- |1952–1954 |[[Edoardo Amaldi]] ''(Secretary-General)''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rubbia |first=Carlo |year=1991 |title=Edoardo Amaldi: scientific statesman |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/228364 |journal=CERN Reports |language=en |volume=91-09 |doi=10.5170/CERN-1991-009}}</ref> |{{flag|Italy }} |- |1954–1955 |[[Felix Bloch]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Béné |first1=Georges J. |title=Felix Bloch, 1905-1983 : 1st Director General of CERN (1954-55) |last2=Enz |first2=Charles P. |last3=Lenk |first3=R. |publisher=CERN |year=1984 |doi=10.17181/CERN.PYMN.ZUHF}}</ref> |{{flag|Switzerland}} |- |1955–1960 |[[Cornelis Bakker]] |{{flag|Netherlands}} |- |1960–1961 |[[John Adams (physicist)|John Adams]] ''(acting director)'' |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |- |1961–1965 |[[Victor Frederick Weisskopf]] |{{flag|United States}} |- |1966–1970 |[[Bernard Gregory]] |{{flag|France}} |- |rowspan=2|1971–1975 |[[Willibald Jentschke]] ''(co-directors)'' |{{flag|Austria}} |- | [[John Adams (physicist)|John Adams]] ''(co-directors)'' |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |- |rowspan=2|1976–1980 |[[Léon Van Hove]] ''(co-directors)''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rubbia |first1=Carlo |title=Leon Van Hove, 1924–1990 |last2=Soergel |first2=Volker |last3=Jacob |first3=Maurice René Michel |publisher=CERN |year=1990 |location=Geneva |doi=10.17181/CERN.Z7V2.R44Z |display-authors=}}</ref> |{{flag|Belgium}} |- | [[John Adams (physicist)|John Adams]] ''(co-directors)'' |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |- |1981–1988 |[[Herwig Schopper]]<ref>{{Citation |last1=Schopper |first1=Herwig |title=Director-General of CERN |date=2024 |work=Herwig Schopper |pages=119–162 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-51042-7_7 |isbn=978-3-031-51041-0 |last2=Gillies |first2=James|doi-access=free }}</ref> |{{flag|Germany}} |- |1989–1993 |[[Carlo Rubbia]] |{{flag|Italy}} |- |1994–1998 |[[Christopher Llewellyn Smith]] |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |- |1999–2003 |[[Luciano Maiani]] |{{flag|San Marino}} |- |2004–2008 |[[Robert Aymar]] |{{flag|France}} |- |2009–2015 |[[Rolf-Dieter Heuer]] |{{flag|Germany}} |- |2016–2025 |[[Fabiola Gianotti]] |{{flag|Italy}} |- |2026– |[[Mark_Thomson_(physicist)|Mark Thomson]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sample |first=Ian |date=2025-12-31 |title=The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/31/large-hadron-collider-head-of-cern-mark-thomson |access-date=2026-01-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |}
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