Sentences with phrase «dem special adviser»

The Bahamian - American physician and special adviser to the Carter Center is one of the key individuals responsible for the eradication of smallpox — a truly terrifying disease that in the 20th century alone killed as many as 300 million people.

Doug New is a partner at Fasken Martineau but earlier in his career served as a special adviser to the deputy commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.

The senators said that despite the administration downplaying his role, Icahn has disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that he was a special adviser, meaning it is important to shareholders of the companies in which he holds stakes in.

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

Trump is set to meet Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy special adviser under Obama who helped shape the Affordable Care Acton, at the White House on Monday, along with Ryan and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

«The American strike on Shayrat air base in Syria is an appropriate response to [Assad's] mass homicide,» said Fred Hof, the director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former US special adviser on Syria.

When Trump announced in December that Icahn would be a special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.»

But Fred Hof, the State Department's former special adviser for transition in Syria, said there was a difference between the warnings issued to Assad nearly five years apart by Obama and Trump.

Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

A few years back, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren (now also a special adviser to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) railed against this accusation.

Former life: In 1974, Pate served as assistant secretary of commerce under President Ford, later becoming a special adviser.

The banks may be more conservative until there's more long - term visibility of where the commodity prices go,» said David Otte, a special adviser to Spears and Associates, a Dallas - based consultancy.

Isabel Spearman is a brand and image consultant who previously worked as special adviser to Samantha Cameron at Downing Street.

Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor and former unofficial «special adviser» to President Donald Trump, sold off nearly $ 31.3 million in steel - related stocks just days before Trump announced he would impose steep tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.

Moon Chung In, the president's special adviser, said in a contributed article to U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs dated Monday, «What will happen to U.S. forces in South Korea if a peace treaty is signed?

Uber said Pishevar had an agreement in 2013 with former Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to serve as a special adviser but that Pishevar hasn't had a role at the company for some time.

It is to this task that Sachs sets himself not only in this book but also in his work as a special adviser to Kofi Annan and as director of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

He is a tireless campaigner, a record - breaking fundraiser and an inspirational speaker, receiving recognition both in the UK (awarded an MBE in 2004) and internationally (appointed as a special adviser to the United Nations in 2008).

Luckily, they're also looking at a few external candidates, as well: former D - Backs scouting director and current Brewers scouting director Ray Montgomery, MLB executive Kim Ng, and former Dodgers GM (and current special adviser) Ned Colletti.

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Your reviewer has known the author for twenty years as a Parliamentary colleague and observed his formidable reputation when both were special advisers in the Thatcher government.

Graham Dale, special adviser to Stephen Timms - who is in charge of the Digital Britain brief - agrees that the «attractive dimension» to cloud computing is cost - cutting.

When it comes (as it always does), he will not be allowed to directly lobby ministers, special advisers and officials for the next two years.

The governor has recruited former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to be a special adviser to establish the nation's first college dedicated to homeland security.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

In amongst all the sleaze is a drum - playing Prime Minister, a cunning and manipulative special adviser and an idealistic former teacher.

Hysteria and panic ensues as the new candidate is primed for BBC Fenland by the party leadership team — Cooper's long - suffering special adviser Claudia (Jessica Regan) being told to «shut up» and «go over there and be a camera.»

Offers of briefings and even visits to shed light on an issue are often well - received as special advisers and Parliamentary researchers try to identify photo - opportunities and soundbites that will let their boss shine.

The culture secretary's special adviser Adam Smith has already resigned after inappropriate contacts with Frederic Michael, News Corp's public affairs chief for Asia and Europe.

Sean Worth is a former special adviser to the prime minister and now director of the Westminster Policy Institute.

Tabling oral and written questions has a similar effect, as pressure mounts on policy officials and special advisers in a department to find answers, and to consider why so many questions are being asked on a particular issue.

Even more scrapping with special advisers took place over my exclusive on Tory councils attacking communities secretary Eric Pickles.

Other recent entrants to the public affairs industry include former Tory special advisers Lizzie Loudon at Hanbury Strategy, Kate Shouesmith at Weber Shandwick and Meg Chandler Powell at Burson Marsteller.

For now, though, the embarrassment persists, so much so that one ministerial special adviser interviewed for this feature declined to be named on the basis that his geekiness would embarrass his senior Conservative employer.

Frederic Michel, James Murdoch's lobbying man in News International, and Adam Smith, Hunt's hapless special adviser (spad) Give evidence today.

As I remember from my own time as a special adviser, this breathing space gives front - benchers the chance to catch up on new thinking and the issues which are likely to feature high on the agenda in the coming months.

Jay asks that now he's clarified that JH means special adviser why didn't he make that clear?

Special adviser Kate Marley went from being on Pay Band 1 in 2014 — capped at # 54,121 — to earning # 65,000 in 2015, an increase of at least 20 per cent.

But that could all be about to change as two of the most highly - rated special advisers from the Cameron years are striking out.

That last generation of working class Labour MPs — the people whose political career started as a shop steward rather than a special adviser — mostly left in 2010.

Before that he was a special adviser in the Department for Transport and then in the Department for Health.

Gordon Brown stands accused of initiating a cover - up to prevent the release of the embarrassing internal review, carried out by former MoD special adviser Bernard Gray.

He was special adviser on European Affairs to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair (1997 — 2004) and chaired the Government's New Industry, New Jobs Advisory Panel in BIS (2009 - 2010).

The «without his boss» knowledge» bit seems unlikely to anyone with even a passing knowledge of how the special adviser system works but there you are, it's not for me to decide, it's for Leveson.

Labour is demanding an official investigation into allegations that Michael Gove's special advisers could have broken their code of conduct.

12:46 - Harman cites paragraph 33 of the ministerial code which states that the minister himself is responsible for the conduct of the special adviser... that's a very, very good point.

The 33 - year - old, a former Labour special adviser, last week kicked off his six - part television series Unspun on Dave with Labour grandee Alan Johnson his first guest.

The prime minister has cut the total number of special advisers across Whitehall from 95 to 83 and the pay bill has also fallen by # 500,000 from # 8.4 million to # 7.9 million a year, according to the government figures.

A host of special advisers and lobbyists have been selected to fight key Conservative seats in the upcoming general election.

Perrior was one of a clutch of special adviser appointments confirmed by Number 10 on Thursday evening.