A chancellor is a high-ranking official who has important responsibilities in government or education. They often act as a leader, making important decisions and representing an institution or a country. Full definition
Keeping the shadow chancellor out of direct sunlight for a few days. (totalpolitics.com)
She praised a woman who had very few actual qualifications for the position of school chancellor. (voices.washingtonpost.com)
He knows it is fifty years since anyone won the leadership of an incumbent party — and inherited Number Ten - without first serving as chancellor. (totalpolitics.com)