Sentences with phrase «chairman of the national development»

The committee, which was formed by the NDC's Functional Executive Committee (NEC), and approved by its Council of Elders, is being chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey

He was the senior advisor to the President, John Mahama, and the chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).

An elections review committee chaired by Former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission Dr Kwesi Botchwey is leading a team to collate reasons for the first round defeat of the party.

The former chairman of the National Development Planning Commission and the Senior Advisor to the President died after he suffered an asthma...

He was appointed by the late President John Evans Atta Mills administration, as chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).

The party in a bid to investigate the cause of the party's historic defeat formed a 13 - member committee chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey.

«Now in China we have 13 nuclear power reactors in operation,» said Zhang Guobao, former vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission — the government agency charged with setting energy and industrial policy — via a translator during a visit to NDRC headquarters in Beijing this past November.

Q: The Chinese chief negotiator on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, has literally thrown the baby and the bath water and the IPCC out, when he said after the BASIC meeting to please look at natural cyclic events as one of the aspects which could be causing climate change.

This national award was to recognize and to honor public stewardship, and it was founded in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft, Jr., and Sam Beard, the founder and chairman of the National Development Council.

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Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

Jim Lopez, President and CEO, Tembec John Lounds, President and CEO, Nature Conservancy of Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President, Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Vicky Sharpe, Founding President and CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Annette Verschuren, Chair and CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Robert Wesseling, President and CEO, The Co-operators Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..

The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) honored William G. Mays, the Chairman and CEO of Mays Chemical Company, on May 21 for

Michael McSweeney, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada Andrée - Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital Management Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President and Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Joe Nemeth, President and CEO, Catalyst Paper Corporation Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Derek Nighbor, CEO, Forests Products Association of Canada Robert Niven, Founder and CEO, CarbonCure Technologies Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources John Risley, Co-Founder, Chairman and President, Clearwater Fine Foods Peter Robinson, CEO, David Suzuki Foundation Ron Seftel, CEO, Bullfrog Power Vicky Sharpe, Founding President, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Scott Skinner, Executive Director, Clean Foundation Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Ilse Treunicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District Scott Vaughan, President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development Annette Verschuren, CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..

Togbe's other current directorships include: • Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club Ltd (Chairman), Ghana's premier football club • Africa Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership, a partnership of African development organizations • Africa World Airlines Ltd (Co-chairman), a domestic and regional carrier • Aluworks Ghana Ltd, an aluminium rolling mill listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) • Ensign College of Public Health, a private university training public health practitioners • National Investment Bank Ltd (Chairman), a majority state - owned, publicly traded universal bank • Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd, an independent power generating company Among Togbe's many awards and recognitions are the following:

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Indeed it was a 15 - member team that included the Electoral Commission Chairman of South Africa, Vuma Glenton Mashinini, a former Tanzania National Electoral Commission Chief, Judge Damian Lubuva, Ms Pauline Welsh, Director of Legal Affairs, Research and Development at the Electoral Commission of Jamaica and Commonwealth Secretary - General Patricia Scotland.

Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Allocation Committee, and a one - time activist of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC, Carl Wilson, has told Citi News his decision to lead a new political movement to bring Ghana the development it desires, is not borne out of hatred for the NDC or its candidate, President John Dramani Mahama.

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

Ghana's annual space exploration expenditure has been 1 % of its gross domestic product (GDP) for support research in science and technology and in 2012 Ghana was elected to chairman the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (Comsats) and Ghana has a joint effort in space exploration with South Africa's South African National Space Agency (SANSA).

That development raised issues about her eligibility as a voter, since the party's Greater Accra regional chairman, Ade Coker, said the non-existence of one's name on the register meant that person was not a registered voter since, according to him, the source of the NDC's register of voters was the national register of the Electoral Commission.

Earlier, Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi said «what the country needs at this time is an atmosphere of peace and tranquility, without which no meaningful positive development in whatever sector can be attained, and the situation unfolding in the South - East, which is a very important component of the Nigerian family, is no doubt, inimical to our collective quest to take Nigeria higher.

Members of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) led by their Chairman, Professor Kwesi Botchwey, have collectively resigned.

Similarly, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa congratulated the Senate President, Dr Olubukola Abubakar Saraki just as he lauded the remarkable contributions of the Senate President to the development of Nigeria and the legislature as Chairman of the 8th National Assembly.

In what appears unclear as to the reasons for delay in the conclusion of Rivers State legislative polls and its pending results, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has given an explanation for the development.

A Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Allocation Committee, and a one - time activist of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC, Carl Wilson, has told Citi News his decision to lead a new political movement to bring Ghana the development it desires, is not borne out of hatred for the NDC or its candidate, President John Dramani Mahama.

Meanwhile, Chairman, Warri - Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group, WIPMG, Chief Patrick Bigha, Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, National Association of Izon - Ebe Law Students, NAILS and Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, have warned those fanning the embers of ethnic discord over the pipelines vandalization to desist.

In a related development, the National Chairman of the PDP, Ali Modu Sherif, on Wednesday stormed Apomu, the headquarters of Isokan Local Government Area to lead the campaign for Chief Ademola Adeleke, who is the standard bearer of the party in the Osun West Senatorial District by - election.

Some of the notable PDP leaders in the state that attended the congress included a former National Secretary of the PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo; a former deputy governor, Chief Olusola Obada; a former Minister of Youth Development and Sports, Akinlabi Olasunkanmi; a former National Deputy Chairman, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, and a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Oluwole Oke.

The Vice Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofu, has touted President John Mahama's achievements over the past four years, saying he comes next to Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah in terms of infrastructural development.

While expressing confidence in the ability of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, to conduct credible primaries in Ekiti despite claims in some quarters that there was a plot to manipulate the process, the former Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development in Lagos State said that the most acceptable aspirant must be fielded by the APC if it hoped to win the election.

The Chairman, who was represented by National Commissioner May Agbamuche - Mbu, also requested for technical assistance for the development of Policy and Legal Framework for boundary delimitation.

According to a statement issued on 3rd October and signed by Prince Adedeji Soyebi, a National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), the Commission could not issue the Notice for Verification on 3rd October as contained in the court - ordered amended Timetable and Schedule of Activities as a result of this development.

But National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi who unveiled the details at the Commission's headquarters Abuja, also cautioned political parties not to see the development as a Notice of Election.

Also speaking, the National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh said Dr. Obiano was well equipped to maintain the multi-sectorial strategy of the Governor to sustain the pace of development.

Modern Corporation — Business of the Year Louis H. Knotts (Calspan)-- Business Person of the Year WNY Regional Economic Development Council — Visionary Award Kathleen A. Granchelli (YWCA of Niagara)-- Community Advocate of the Year Stephen F. Brady (National Grid)-- Chairman's Award

Former Aviation Minster, Femi Fani - Kayode, has responded to declaration by National Chairman of Fulbe (Fulani) Development Association of Nigeria (FULDAN), Malam Ahmad Usman Bello, that they...

National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muiz Banire (SAN), has lambasted Lagos Chairman, Dele Ajomale, on his comment regarding the court ruling that upturned the position of the party on its candidate for the upcoming local government election in the State for Odi Olowo Local Council Development Area.

Buttressing the importance of the collaboration between both organizations, the INEC Chairman said: «This is also one way to actualize the lofty goals of NIGCOMSAT to positively impact on national development in divers sectors through deployment of high - tech telecommunications infrastructure.

Sponsored by National Grid, the guide is the result of a collaborative partnership between Mayor Byron W. Brown, Chairman of the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, Buffalo Niagara Partnership, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, CBRE Buffalo, and Buffalo Place.

The guide was formed through a collaborative effort by Mayor Byron W. Brown, Chairman of Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, Buffalo Niagara Partnership, CBRE Buffalo and Buffalo Place with funding provided by National Grid.

Sanusi, who was the chairman of the 15th meeting of the Joint Planning Board and National Council on Development Planning in Kano State on Wednesday, argued that the failure of the Buhari - led government to create employment opportunities for «the over 80 million youths in the country,» made terrorism attractive to the unemployed.

Reacting to the development, factional chairman, Haddy Ametuo, who was recently confirmed by the national leadership of the APC as the authentic state chairman of the party, accused Governor Bello of disregarding the party's decision and trying to politicise the party.

The signing was attended by Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's influential economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Todd Stern, the lead U.S. climate treaty negotiator at the U.S. State Department, Obama adviser John Podesta and Lee Zak, director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

Moderated by: Hossam Badrawi, Chairman Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education & Development, former Chairman of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research, Parliament of Egypt Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch, Senior Programme Specialist Natural Sciences, UNESCO Aicha Bammoun, Programme Specialist, Science Directorate, ISESCO Paul Rübig, Chair, European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Liliya Hrynevych, Chairperson, Committee on Science and Education, Parliament of Ukraine Jesus Hurtado, Member of the Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, Congress of the Republic Peru Ninlawan Petcharaburanin, Advisor for the Committee on Science Technology National Assembly, Thailand Rana Dajani, Associate Professor, Hashemite University, Jordan; Visiting Professor, Yale Stem Cell Center and University of Cambridge

Graham Olway represented all local authorities in England as National Chairman of the Education Building Development Officers Group (EBDOG) from 2007 - 13 and was awarded a MBE for his services to Education in 2013.

Perry is former Illinois representative for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development national board of directors; a member and past chairman of the national advisory board for the American Society for Quality; and a member of the Illinois Education Advisory Committee, Illinois Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence.

Additionally, he serves as chairman of the board of the National Association of Development Companies (NADCO).

Introduced by Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (Tennessee), the bill provides for coordination of national research and development on water and efforts to ensure adequate water supplies in the future.

Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua of the National Reform and Development Commission clarified in a press conference that China's progress would be calculated on a narrower basis compared to how other countries might account for their carbon footprint:

Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield, R - Ky., who will preside over the hearing, sent out letters Aug. 6 inviting testimony from leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency; the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, State, and Transportation; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Commerce Department; NASA; the U.S. Agency for International Development; the Export - Import Bank; and the White House Office of Science and Technology.