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| post                     = Director-General
| body                     = CERN
| native_name              = ''Directeur général'' or ''Directrice générale'' <!--someone with better French than me, please check this-->
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| image                    = Dr Fabiola Gianotti (cropped).jpg
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| incumbent                = [[Fabiola Gianotti]]
| incumbentsince           = 1 January 2016
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| precursor                = Secretary-General
| formation                = October 1954
| first                    = [[Felix Bloch]]
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[[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=http://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}}
|-
|2016–2020
|[[Fabiola Gianotti]]
|{{flag|Italy}}
|-
|2021–2025
|[[Fabiola Gianotti]]
|{{flag|Italy}}
|-
|2026–2031 
|[[Mark_Thomson_(physicist)|Mark Thomson]]
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|}

==References==
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