Promoter or Promotor may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Professions

  • Promoter (entertainment), one who makes arrangements for events or markets them to attract an audience
  • Promotor (Dutch, Belgian, or German academia), a full professor of a Dutch, Flanders, or German university who formally promotes a PhD candidate to doctor, and is (formally) the principal supervisor during the doctoral research.
  • Corporate promoter, an entity who takes active steps in the formation, organization, or financing of a corporation
  • Tour promoter, individuals or companies responsible for organizing a live concert tour or special event performance

Science

  • Promoter (catalysis), an accelerator of a catalyst, though not a catalyst itself
  • Promoter (genetics), a regulatory region of DNA usually located upstream of a gene, providing a control point for regulated gene transcription

Other uses

  • Promoter (role variant), one of the sixteen personality types of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
  • Promoter, an office of the Catholic Church such as Promoter of the Laity, Promoter of Peace and Justice, or Promoter of the Faith (also known as the Devil's advocate)
  • Promotor (typeface), a typeface supplied by Joh. Enschede

See also

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