Sentences with phrase «funded by a multinational»

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

If you haven't guessed by now, all of these cars were personal pet projects, funded by multinational car manufacturers to fulfil the requirements of their respective and exacting CEOs.

Not exact matches

While the funding round was led by DFJ ventures (Draper Fisher Jurveston) it also included the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), USAA (United Services Automobile Association) a US bank available only to current and former service members and their families, BBVA a large multinational bank, and former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit.

Multinational corporations have dealt with this by rapidly expanding the size and responsibilities of their corporate treasury departments, which often fund dozens or even hundreds of bank accounts around the world to facilitate efficient payments.

Bengaluru - based relocation service provider Pikkol has received seed funding from a group of angel investors, including Ajay Nanavati, former chairman of 3M India, the Indian arm of US multinational conglomerate 3M Co. and Afsal Salu, co-founder of hyperlocal delivery company Delyver, which was acquired by BigBasket.

As an academic field, economics is owned by multinationals, hedge funds, Wall Street and the like.

The Institute of Food Research (IFR) is a new key partner in an EU funded multinational research project that will help reduce food waste by 30 % by 2025.

A multinational research team led by Richard Wood of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Clare Hall laboratories in Hertfordshire has recreated this vital mechanism, called nucleotide excision repair (NER), in the test tube.

Lawrie Lyons, professor emeritus at the University of Queensland, thinks the huge sums now generated by superannuation funds should be used to buy equity in multinational corporations.

Since 2002, Dr. Lopez - Correa has served as evaluator for large multinational projects funded by the European Commission, the IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiatives) and the NIH and has been recognized by several awards nationally and internationally.

One way to help diversify your investment portfolio is by purchasing shares in mutual funds that invest in companies based in countries outside the United States, or in multinational companies that do business around the world.

The first is a single grand international fund through which all mitigation and adaptation would be financed − such as, say, a greatly expanded version of the Multinational Climate Change Fund proposed by Mexfund through which all mitigation and adaptation would be financed − such as, say, a greatly expanded version of the Multinational Climate Change Fund proposed by MexFund proposed by Mexico.

SCEPTICS are not funded or subsidised by BIG government, unlike BIG green whose associated NGO's and multinational green mega-corporations are funded to the tune of BILLIONS annually via subsidies, tax incentives, green loans and grants.

We are working to make sure the GCF does not fund dirty energy, and that it does not become an institution dominated by multinational corporations, wealthy countries, or Wall Street investors that would leave critical, yet unprofitable, climate priorities by the wayside.

If the Supreme Court eventually rules that litigation funding is permitted in Ireland, it will mean that Irish parties who are lawfully entitled to compensation, for example due to a breach of contract by a large multinational corporation, or mis - selling of financial products by an international bank, can make use of the financial resources and the strategic experience of professional funders like Woodsford to get justice from the Courts».

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.