He was the media organization's inaugural Director of Operations, and participated in the tabling of the country's first post-independence communications bill and information policy paper.

In 1861 he became the inaugural Director of the revived Institute of Music.

Maudie Palmer AO was appointed the inaugural Director.

John Wrigley, inaugural Director of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, drew up the master plan.

Bidwill became temporary government botanist on 1 September 1847 and inaugural Director of Sydney's botanic gardens.

Promoted group captain, he formed the Directorate of Flying Safety in June 1945 and served as its inaugural Director.

The inaugural Director was academic legal scholar Professor Andrew Christie who served from 2002 to 2008.

In 2009, Dr. Lars K. Hallström was named as the inaugural Director of the centre.

John L. Wallace was the inaugural Director of the Institute (2009-2012), which has a team of over 100 people, including fourteen senior researchers.

In 1997, he was appointed the inaugural Director of the New South Wales Institute of Sport.