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The Chairperson of the Board of Governors and the representative of the Chair in Office also sit on the Executive Committee. The role of the Board of Governors, which usually meets once a year, is to approve the Secretariat’s strategic plans, work programmes and budgets.

The Right Honourable Patricia Scotland KC is the current Commonwealth Secretary-General.Īll member governments are represented on the Commonwealth Secretariat Board of Governors by their High Commissioners.The Commonwealth Secretary-General is responsible for representing the Commonwealth publicly, and is the Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Commonwealth Secretariat is the intergovernmental organisation which supports member countries and co-ordinates Commonwealth activities.