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DigitalEurope

DigitalEurope is the lobby group for the digital technology industry in Europe.
Its members comprise the 60 or so largest digital companies and the national digital industry associations in the member states. 
==Lobbying activity==
Specific events
*February 2015: DigitalEurope co-organised with the Lisbon Council a 'high-level debate' on 'SMEs in the Digital Single Market: Creating Growth in Europe'. Member firm Google invited EU commissioner for the digital economy, Günther Oettinger, to deliver the keynote speech. The event included a 'private VIP lunch'.Information received through freedom of information law
*December 2014: DigitalEurope director, Patrice Chazerand was a panelist on the 'Digital learning round table' organised by the European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology, or DG CONNECT.Digital learning round table, DG Connect website, 16 December 2014
Official bodies
*DigitalEurope manages the secretariat for the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, the European Commission-led, multi-stakeholder partnership to tackle the lack of digital skills in Europe.
==People==
*John Higgins, director general, DigitalEurope; former head of UK IT lobby group, Intellect. 
*Patrice Chazerand, Director, DigitalEurope; former Secretary-General of the Interactive Software Federation of Europe. 
==Contacts==
:Website: http://www.digitaleurope.org
==References==
Category:Education IndustryCategory:EdtechCategory:Education lobby groupCategory:Education EUCategory:Education reform lobby group
Digital Promise

Digital Promise is US not-for-profit initiative launched in 2011 to bring more technology to classrooms.
==Founders==
Digital Promise was launched by President Barack Obama and his education secretary Arne Duncan.
Funding for launch was supplied by: 
*US Department for Education
*Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
*William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
*Carnegie Corporation
Initial work was directed by TechAmerica Foundation, the nonprofit arm of a tech industry lobbying firm. Other tech trade associations, the Information Technology Industry Council and the Software and Information Industry Association, also advised.
==Contacts==
*Website: http://www.digitalpromise.org
==References==
 
Category:Education IndustryCategory:Education reform lobby group
Dignity

In 2004 Dignity was Britain's largest provider of funeral-related services. It operated 507 funeral homes throughout Britain, which operated under more than 350 established local trading names. Dignity owned 21 crematoria in the UK and was Britain's leading cremator.Maynard Paton, QUALIPORT: A Franchise In Funerals, The Motley Fool, April 19, 2004, acc 27 Mar 2010
In its company report for 2009, Dignity states that it "owns 550 funeral locations and operates 30 crematoria in the United Kingdom". It adds, "We are a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange, with over 2,200 employees serving families and local communities across the United Kingdom."Dignity plc, Corporate Profile 2009, p 1
Its revenue for the financial year ended 26 Dec 2008 was £175.8 million, up 10% from the previous year. Its underlying operating profit was up 9% to £52.1 million.Dignity plc, Corporate Profile 2009, p 2
==Activities==
==History==
==Affiliations==
==People==
==Funding==
==Clients==
==Publications==
==Contact==
:Address:
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:Website: http://www.dignityfunerals.co.uk/
==Resources==
==Notes==
Category:Funeral Industry
Dillon, Read & Co.

Dillon, Read & Co. was a prominent American investment bank from the 1920s into the 1960s.
==History==
===Origins===
Dillon Read traces its roots to 1832 with the founding of the Wall Street brokerage firm Carpenter & Vermilye.The last partnerships: inside the great Wall Street money dynasties. 2001 An area of particular activity was underwriting the bonds of Latin American governments. However, it is best known for its actions during the 1920s. During that time Clarence Dillon managed the rescue of faltering Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, engineered the buyout (in 1925) and subsequent sale of Dodge Motors (in 1928) to Chrysler, launched the first post-war closed-end investment trust (in 1924), and led the largest-ever stock offering (in 1926). By the end of the decade, Dillon Read was considered to be an investment-banking powerhouse, alongside J.P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
===Acquisition by SBC===
Dillon Read was purchased by Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) in 1997 and merged with London-based investment bank S. G. Warburg & Co. (purchased by SBC in 1995) to become SBC Warburg Dillon Read. The merged entity then became part of UBS AG when the latter firm bought SBC.
==Notes==
Category:Banking and Finance Industry
Dilwar Hussain

Dilwar Hussain is founding Chair of New Horizons in British Islam, an organisation that claims that it 'promotes critical discussions around Muslim identity, tradition and reform'.Faith and Belief forum Founders, Trustees and Patrons. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 27 March 2020 on 27 March 2020. It fails to disclose its covert relationship with Breakthrough Media and their client RICU.
Hussain is also Research Fellow at the University of Coventry's Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. Among other publications, he is the editor of the book British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and the State. Over the last 20 years he has advised government departments, provided policy consulting and training around issues of integration, identity and counter-extremism and has been a frequent analyst and commentator on British Muslim affairs.
==Affiliations==
 
*Lokahi Foundation 
*Trustee Maslaha 
*Trustee of the Islamic Society of Britain 
*Institute for Strategic Dialogue
* Trustee of the Faith & Belief Forum (FBF) 
*Trustee (2012-­2018) and Vice-Chair (2016­-2018) of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
*Head of the Policy Research Centre (2007-2013) based at the Islamic Foundation
*served on the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) (2006-2007) 
*served on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Life and Faith (2005­-2006). 
In 2009/10 Dilwar Hussain declared the following interests on appointment as a special advisor to the Preventing Violent Extremism enquiry of the UK Parliament Communities and Local Government Committee: 
: Head of Policy Research Centre; Advisor to Weidenfeld Institute for Strategic Dialogue on their Islam in Europe programme of research; advising on a short-term Prevent related research project run by the Royal United Services Institute; on a review panel for HM Prison Service looking at literature in prisons; occasionally undertakes research and training projects related to identity, cohesion and preventing extremism for a variety of sources (including the Association of Local Government, the Communities and Local Government Department of HMG, the Change Institute, St Philips Centre in Leicester and the Apex Partnership).Preventing Violent Extremism - Communities and Local Government Committee Parliament.uk. Accessed 27 March 2020.
*Contextualising Islam in Britain II project - participant
==Contact==
:Twitter: @DilwarH 
:Internet Archive holdings of Blog: dilwar.org
:Internet Archive holdings of Blog: dilwarh.wordpress.com
==Notes==
Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)

Dimethyltryptamine is a hallucinogenic drugPhilip Boyd, Emotional Problems in Childhood and Adolescence: Adolescents Drug Abuse and Addiction, British Medical Journal, 1972, 4, 540-543. The drug is alleged to create a Euphoria linked to feelings of "‘transcendence’, ‘ineffability’ and ‘grace’ that often appear in descriptions of ayahuasca sessions by physically and psychologically healthy individuals. Many reported experiences are similar to descriptions of samadhi in advaitan Hinduism, satori in Zen Buddhism or beatific vision in Christianity"Robert S. Gable, (2007) [http://web.cgu.edu/faculty/gabler/Ayahuasca%20paper%20PDF.pdf Risk assessment of ritual use of oral
dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and harmala alkaloids], Addiction, 102, 24–34. 
==Resources==
Philip Boyd, Emotional Problems in Childhood and Adolescence: Adolescents Drug Abuse and Addiction, British Medical Journal, 1972, 4, 540-543
==Notes==
Category:Addictions
Dimitri Dombret

Dimitri Dombret is a former assistant to Belgian MEP, Frédérique Ries, the Director of European Friends of Israel and is associated with the European Strategic and Intelligence Center. 
Dimitri Dombret graduated in Political Science and International Relations (MA) from the Universities of Liege (Belgium), Brussels (Belgium) and Tel-Aviv (Israel). He worked at the Belgian Embassy in Tel-Aviv, Israel before serving Frédérique Ries first as an assistant at the European Parliament and then at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgium as the Advisor for International Affairs to State Secretary for European and Foreign Affairs. He also worked briefly as a Consular Attaché at the Belgian Mission to the UN in New-York. 
Journalist David Cronin has written than Dombret confirmed to him that he had attended AIPAC events in the United States.David Cronin, Europe's Alliance With Israel, Pluto Press, 2011, p.138
==Affiliations==
*European Friends of Israel - Director
*The Israel Project - expert
*Frédérique Ries - former assistant
*European Strategic and Intelligence Center
==Contact==
*E-mail: director@efi-eu.org
*Phone:+ 32 2 235 72 72 
*Website: www.efi-eu.org
==Notes==
Category:Belgium
Category: Israel Lobby
Dina Borzekowski

==Background==
Dina L.G. Borzekowski is an Assistant Professor for Health Communication in the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
==Biographical Information==
===History===
===Current activities===
Borzekowski's research focuses on children, media, and health. Investigating how a child or adolescent’s demographics, background, and issue involvement influence perceptions of positive and negative health messages.
==Views==
==Affiliations==
* Member of the Advertising Education Forum, Academic NetworkAdvertising Education Forum AEF Academic Network (AAN), accessed 1 August 2007.
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==	
 
===Publications===
* Borzekowski, Dina L.G., Robinson, Thomas N. (2005). The remote, the mouse, and the #2 pencil: Media and academic achievement among 3rd grade students. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 159: 607-613.
* Borzekowski, Dina L.G., Rickert, Vaughn I. (2001). Adolescent cybersurfing for health information: A new resource that crosses barriers. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 155, 813-817.
* Borzekowski, Dina L.G., Robinson, Thomas N. (2001). The 30-second effect: An experiment revealing the impact of television commercials on food preferences of preschoolers. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 101: 42-46.
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Phone:
:Email:dborzeko@jhsph.edu
:Website: 
===Resources===	 
===Notes===
Borzekowski, Dina
Category:Foodspin Scientists
Dina Dublon

Former Chief Financial Officer, JPMorgan Chase 
Dina Dublon was, from December 1998 until her retirement in September 2004, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for JPMorgan Chase. Ms. Dublon was responsible for the global financial management and reporting, related technology and operations, strategy and acquisitions, corporate treasury, investor relations and tax. She was integral to the negotiation and implementation of the mergers of Chemical Bank with Manufacturers Hanover, Chase, JPMorgan, and Bank One.
Ms. Dublon joined Chemical Bank's capital markets group as a trainee on the trading floor in 1981. From 1981 to 1996, Ms. Dublon held positions in capital markets, asset liability management and investment banking. She became Corporate Treasurer in 1994 and head of corporate planning in 1996. Prior to joining Chemical Bank, Ms. Dublon worked as a research associate for the Harvard Business School and as Regional Director, Securities Division at Bank Hapoalim in Israel.
Ms. Dublon joined the Microsoft board on March 22, 2005. She also serves on the board of directors of Accenture, Ltd., and PepsiCo, Inc. She is a founding board member of Greenstone Media, and serves on the boards of Carnegie Mellon University, the Global Fund for Women and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children.
== Notes ==
# Microsoft (2007) Board of Directors Microsoft Website accessed 30/01/07
Dipesh Gadher

Dipesh Gadher, formerly the media correspondent on The Sunday Times, became news editor in November 2008. Gadher, 33, has been on the paper's staff for 10 years covering general news as well as the transport brief. Ben Dowell, Dipesh Gadher to be Sunday Times news deputy, The Guardian, 25 November 2008, accessed 26 January 2009
==References==
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Dipesh Shah

Dipesh Shah is a former chief executive of the UKAEA. He became a non-executive director of Thames Water Utilities in October 2007 and is also a non-executive director on the boards of JKX Oil & Gas Plc (where he is chairman of the Remuneration Committee), The Crown Estate, EU Fund for Energy, and Climate Change and Infrastructure (the Marguerite Fund). Our board, Thames Water Utilities, acc 15 August 2012 
==Background==
Dipesh Shah was chief executive of UKAEA from November 2003 until November 2006. Before UKAEA he worked for BP, including as chief economist for BP Oil UK and managing director and CEO of BP Solar International. Between 2000 and 2002, he was vice president and general manager for global acquisitions and divestments for BP.
Previously he was also chairman of the Viridian Group, the Northern Ireland energy company and a non-executive director of Babcock International Group plc. He has served as a member of DTI’s Renewable Energy Advisory Committee (1994 – 2002) and was on four occasions chairman of the European Photovoltaics (Solar) Industry Association.
== Leaving ==
In June 2006 a statement from UKAEA said that Shah would not be extending his contract when his current 3-year term expired in November that year. Shah said: 
:I have thoroughly enjoyed my term at UKAEA and, with the support of staff, we have achieved some notable successes. We have developed radical new plans that bring forward the decommissioning of our sites by up to 35 years and reduce the cost to the tax-payer by over £1 billion; won Ministerial approval for our business plan to create a vibrant, competitive new British company; entered into an alliance with world-class businesses, AMEC and CH2MHILL; played a key role in the international fusion effort; and taken forward the vision for the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus to create the premier such campus in the UK.UKAEA, Dipesh Shah, Chief Executive, UKAEA, Press Release, June 12, 2006.
==Notes==
Shah, Dipesh
Shah, Dipesh
Shah, Dipesh
Direct Democracy

Direct Democracy was a vehicle for former Tory politician (now UKIP MP) Douglas Carswell, and MEP Dan Hannan, and was considered part of the Conservative movement. 
Its declared mission was 'to shift governmental powers back, from Brussels to Westminster, from Whitehall to town halls, from the state to the citizens. Power would be dispersed among communities, through localism and through referendums.'Direct Democracy About Us, accessed 20 August 2011
It ceased operations in November 2011.
==People==
Douglas Carswell | Dan Hannan
==Contact==
:Web: http://directdemocracyuk.com/ (no longer functioning)
:Facebook
:Twitter
==Notes==
Category:Conservative movement
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure

DGSE. French foreign intelligence agency.
==People==
===Directors===
*Mr Pierre Marion	 April 2, 1982 – November 1982
*Admiral Pierre Lacoste	 November 1982 – September 1985
*General René Imbot	 September 1985 – December 1987
*Air Marshal François Mermet	 January 1988 – March 1989
*Prefect Claude Silberzahn	 March 1989 – June 1993
*Prefect Jacques Dewatre	 June 1993 – March 2000
*Mr Jean-Claude Cousserand	 March 2000 - July 2002
*Mr Pierre Brochand	 July 2002 - October 2008
*Prefect Erard Corbin de Mangoux October 2008-History, DGSE, accessed 21 December 2011.
===Others===
*Alain Chouet
*Rocco Martino - alleged agent
==Contact==
Website: www.defense.gouv.fr/dgse
==Notes==
Category: spooksCategory:French intelligence
Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire

The Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (Directorate of Territorial Security) was a French intelligence agency, which operated from 1944 until 2008, when it was merged with the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux into the new Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur.DST - Directorate of Territorial Security Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, Intelligence Resources Program, Federation of American Scientists, accessed 15 June 2009.
==Notes==
Category:SpooksCategory:French intelligence
Director-General of the BBC

The Director-General is chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC and is appointed by the BBC Trust.Senior Management, BBC, accessed 2 January 2011.
==List of Directors-General==
*John Reith
*F.W. Ogilvie 1938-1942
*Cecil Graves 1942-43 (jointly)
*R.W. Foot (1942-1944)
*William Haley (1944-1952)
*Ian Jacob (1952-1959)
*Hughe Carleton-Greene (1960-1969)
*Charles Curran (1969-1977)
*Ian Trethowan 1977-1982
*Alasdair Milne 1982-1987
*Michael Checkland 1987-1992
*John Birt 1992-2000
*Greg Dyke 2000-2004
*Mark Thompson 2004-BBC Director-General listing, BBC, accessed 2 January 2012.
==Notes==
Category:Media Industry
Director Special Forces

UK Special Forces were formed in 1987 to draw together the Army's Special Air Service (SAS) and the Special Boat Squadron Royal Marines (SBS), which was renamed the Special Boat Service at the same time, into a unified command, based around the former Director SAS who was given the additional title of Director Special Forces. The Directorate has been expanded by the creation of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group.
==Secret Forces==
:Now a new policy keeping the names of SAS and SBS men secret for ever is expected to be announced by the Government later this month. The MoD and the Ministry of Justice have been involved in the secret discussions. The intervention of the new Director Special Forces who is, for the first time, a major-general – the appointment in the past has been held by a lower-ranked brigadier – seems to have been the crucial factor.
:He is understood to have pointed out that all the members of the elite units have to sign a strict confidentiality agreement which bans them from ever writing or speaking about their clandestine missions. In return, he felt that the MoD owed it to them to keep their names secret, even after their deaths. The confidentiality contracts were introduced after several books were written by former special forces soldiers about their careers. The most notable one was Bravo Two Zero, the blockbuster by Andy McNab about a failed SAS mission in the 1991 Gulf War.
:The MoD has always maintained an official policy of never commenting about special forces operations. However, whenever the SAS or SBS have been engaged in a particular incident, with subsequent fatalities, the involvement of special forces troops has often leaked out. As a consequence, the MoD has allowed the names of individual members of the special forces to be published posthumously, although the traditional policy has been to give a serviceman’s original unit, such as The Parachute Regiment or Royal Marines.Michael Evans, Defence Editor Special forces win the right to take their secrets to the grave From The Times
January 5, 2008 
==People==
*General Sir (Hugh) Michael Rose 1988-1989
*Lt General Sir Michael Wilkes Circa 1992Michael Wilkes, Intelligence Online, 23 September 1992. 
* Major General John T Holmes DSO, OBE, MC 1999-2001Erinys, Management, Formerly hosted at <http://www.erinysinternational.com/CompanyOverview-ManagementProfiles.asp?Corporate> retrieved from the Internet Archive dated 6 April 2008 on 1 October 2009
*Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb - c.2003Mark Urban, Task Force Black, Little, Brown, 2010, p.7.
==Notes==
category:CounterinsurgencyCategory:SAS
Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission

The Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security is one of the European Commission's 36 departments which oversees the implementation of EU law. Originally a small task force for justice and home affairs set up in 1992, it was expanded into a full directorate-general in October 1999. It is the newest and smallest Commission department, with approximately 320 officials out of a total of 17,000 Commission officials. It is made up of seventeen policy units, split into four directorates:
*Directorate A: General Affairs
*Directorate B: Immigration, Asylum and Borders
*Directorate C: Civil Justice, Rights and Citizenship
*Directorate D: Internal security and criminal justice
Its present general Director is Jonathan Faull.
==Notes==
Directorate of Counter-Intelligence and Security (MI6)

The Directorate of Counter-Intelligence and Security was established within MI6 in 1964.Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.267. It was renamed the Directorate of Security and Public Affairs in the early 1990s.Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.297.
==Structure and Personnel==
===Director of Counterintelligence and Security (D/CIS)===
*Maurice Oldfield - 1964-Philip H.J. Davies, MI6 and the Machinery of Spying, Frank Cass, 2004, p.267.
*Christopher Phillpotts - c.1968Gordon Corera, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, Phoenix, 2012, p.205.
*Gerry Warner - c.late 1980sGordon Corera, MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service, Phoenix, 2012, p.217.
==Notes==
Category:SpooksCategory:MI6
Directorate of Defence Communications

Previously known as the Directorate General Media and Communications (DGMC), the central hub for MoD media operations. 
==Resources==
*https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-the-defence-communications-directorates-response-to-declassified-uk/review-of-the-defence-communications-directorates-response-to-declassified-uk
*https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17001670
*https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-instruction-contact-with-media-and-public/contact-with-the-media-and-communicating-in-public
==See also==
*Ministry of Defence
===Propaganda and information control===
====Ministry of Defence====
*Defence Media Operations Centre | Directorate of Defence Communications | Military Strategic Effects | Targeting and Information Operations | Directorate General Media and Communications 
*Defence Online Engagement Strategy | The Defence Communication Strategy | Defence communications: capability; structure; resourcing; and reform
====Military====
*7644 (Media operations) Squadron | British Forces Broadcasting Service | D-Notice Committee | Joint Information Activities Group (JIAG) | 77th Brigade | | 15 (UK) Psychological Operations GroupMoD 15 Psyops Group | | Defence Media Operations Centre | Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations | The Green Book http://www.mod.uk/news/green_book/index.htm http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/GreenBook.pdf | Information Policy | Intelligence and Information Operations Capability ProgrammeMoD Command Support and Intelligence Solutions Integrated Project Team (CSIS IPT), accessed 28 November 2009 | Media Operations Group (V) | Services Sound and Vision Corporation | | Security Assistance Group |
====Doctrine====
Media Operations - Joint Doctrine Publication 3-45.1
==Notes==