Sentences with phrase «committee on conflicts of interest»

That includes François Le Borgne, a law professor at the Université de Montréal, who until recently presided over the school's committee on conflicts of interest.

This was the third attempt by the Federation with previous reports prepared by a Special Advisory Committee on Conflicts of Interest in June 2010 and in February 2011.

Not exact matches

She currently serves on the Texas Health Institute Board, the CHI Mission and Ministry Fund, the UT Conflict of Interest Committee.

At the request of the Conflict of Interest Review Committee or Audit and Risk Committee, however, the interested director, officer or staff member may present background information or answer questions on the matter.

The minutes of any Audit and Risk Committee meeting where a conflict of interest has been disclosed shall reflect that the conflict of interest was disclosed and that the interested person was not present for deliberations and did not vote on the matter.

Baby Milk Action has suggested to FTSE that it is a conflict of interest to have Nestlé investors sitting on the Expert Committee as they have a vested interest in defending their investment.

«We have asked the Lancet to review the effectiveness of its conflicts of interest policy, given that two lead authors of its series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, published in June 2013, declared that they are members of Nestle's Creating Shared Value Advisory Committee.

The JACEI report praises Nestlé for being the first company to meet the breastmilk substitutes criteria to be included in the FTSE4Good ethical investment Index, yet there is a significant conflict of interest involved as the Church Central Finance Board (CFB), which decided to invest in Nestlé in 2007, sits on the FTSE4Good committee responsible for assessing Nestlé's baby milk marketing and advising on the criteria.

This has also raised question about the effectiveness of the conflict of interest policy of the medical journal Lancet, given that two of the lead authors of its series on Maternal and Child Nutrition were members of Nestle's Creating Shared Value Advisory Committee.

An Expert Committee on Breast Milk Substitutes advises on the criteria and the inclusion or exclusion of companies and includes the Methodist Church CFB, despite it having a conflict of interest as an investor in Nestlé (note 1).

Also at the City Council on Wednesday: The Committee on Rules, Elections, and Privileges will meet at 10:30 a.m. to receive three nominations from the Mayor for appointments to city agencies: Fernando Bohorquez and Anthony Crowell for the Conflicts of Interest Board, and Salvatore Scibetta for the Board of Standards and Appeals.

The report also showed, SBF did not disclose to the state a conflict of interest involving the affiliation between one of its board members, who served on the foundation's investment committee, and a firm that provides investment services to the foundation.

(i) The Committee on Ethics may, in its discretion, issue public or private advisory opinions with respect to questions of ethical conduct, conflicts of interest and other matters arising under this Article.

Any member of a panel who is or was a relative, partner, associate, employer or employee of any person who appears before said panel for the purpose of being screened shall disclose such relationship to the Administrator and shall be disqualified from voting with respect to such person; the Committee on the Judiciary may establish guidelines which are more restrictive in order to prevent conflicts of interest.

As part of its ongoing inquiry into academies and free schools, the Education Select Committee recently published a report that it had commissioned from Jean Scott and me on conflicts of interest in academies...

The Committee on Rules, Privileges, and Elections will meet at 1 p.m. to discuss the mayor's nominations of Jeffrey Friedlander and Malini Cadambi Daniel to the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board and the New York Equal Employment Practices Commission, respectively.

Scientists who receive grants from agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should not be trusted to «self - regulate» on matters involving a potential conflict of interest, suggests a letter released today by two Republican members of the House Science Committee.

NIH advisory committees I suspected that NIH was not obeying federal regulations when it came to conflicts of interest on its advisory committees.

Having faced criticism in the past for allowing experts with conflicts of interest to serve on its advisory committees, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that it is expanding requirements for how these conflicts are disclosed.

When Malloy appointed Comer, Wendy Lecker and I raised alarms about the potential conflict of interest that comes with having a charter school executive on the state committee that regulates that charter school industry.

I argue that the best next steps are three-fold: first, to build and fund magnet schools in urban centers; second to replace pro-suburban standards for evaluating schools with standards for quality schools based on scientific research; and third, replacing members of the metropolitan planning committees and commissions with qualified professionals without a conflict of interest in real - estate.

In her response Appelt was cryptic, at best, saying that as committee deliberations are private, «I or any other judge might well have excused ourselves from voting on any particular book, if conflict of interest were an issue.»

Mayor claimed that Glimcher's involvement on the committee presented a conflict of interest, and he cited «longstanding frictions and disagreements» between himself and Glimcher as evidence of foul play.

Curious as to whether there are two Peter Lilleys with an interest in climate change, or whether comment # 12 is from the right wing Tory MP, Vice Chairman and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at Tethys Petroleum, member of the House Of Commons Select Committee on Climate Change (no conflict of interest there, then), and one of only three MPs to vote against the Climate Change Acof the House Of Commons Select Committee on Climate Change (no conflict of interest there, then), and one of only three MPs to vote against the Climate Change AcOf Commons Select Committee on Climate Change (no conflict of interest there, then), and one of only three MPs to vote against the Climate Change Acof interest there, then), and one of only three MPs to vote against the Climate Change Acof only three MPs to vote against the Climate Change Act?

Read the statement on conflicts of interest by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors to get the idea.

Working arrangements on conflict of interest in relation to the work of the Compliance Committee

Two days later, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D - AZ), ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter citing the Soon controversy to seven universities, including the University of Delaware where Legates works, citing «potential conflicts of interest and failure to disclose corporate funding sources in academic climate research.»

A leader in professional ethics, Mercer is also an LSUC bencher, chairman of the Canadian Bar Association's ethics and professional responsibility committee, and a member of the CBA task force on conflicts of interest.

In N.Y. State 789 (10/26/2005), the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics questioned the Bank Brussels view that the provision of in - house legal advice to firm lawyers about existing client matters created a conflict of interest.

The allegations against Sukonick and DeMerchant included acting while in a conflict of interest by advising on whether the non-competition payments could be non-taxable; providing advice on how to characterize the payments in the books of the related companies; and participating in the preparation of a memorandum to the audit committee after the closing that addressed the fact the initial approval had been improper and recommended approving them again.

1 Although I don't think it is a conflict of interest, I confess to having worked on a research contract for the Penner Committee

Here, however, the AGC was named as a respondent by ACJ Douglas, which meant that the AGC was placed in a fundamental conflict «between two public interest positions — on the one hand, defending the process and the Committee's decision... and, on the other, abandoning that responsibility in deference to the direct role of the AGC as Minister of Justice in the disciplinary process for superior court judges» (para. 7).

Malcolm has been a member of the CBA Task Force on Conflicts of Interest, is a past chair of the CBA Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and was the regulatory team lead for the CBA Futures Initiative.

On 5 December, 2007, the committee issued a report on Fortune 250 companies that determined companies with the largest conflicts of interest with their compensation consultants (as measured by other work the consultants did for the company) tended to offer higher executive compensation packageOn 5 December, 2007, the committee issued a report on Fortune 250 companies that determined companies with the largest conflicts of interest with their compensation consultants (as measured by other work the consultants did for the company) tended to offer higher executive compensation packageon Fortune 250 companies that determined companies with the largest conflicts of interest with their compensation consultants (as measured by other work the consultants did for the company) tended to offer higher executive compensation packages.

Last month the Federation of Law Societies of Canada released a long - awaited Report on Conflicts of Interest prepared by its Standing Committee on the Model Code.