Sentences with phrase «global infrastructure at»

Prior to joining Lowe's, Ramsay was Vice President of Global Infrastructure at Hess Corporation, where he worked for more than 15 years.

Not exact matches

Former Ashurst partner Paul Riethmuller has started at global law firm Jones Day as a partner in its projects and infrastructure practice in Perth.

Mineral Resources was coy about its plans after today announcing it has agreed to buy mining tenements, including lithium deposits, and infrastructure at the Wodgina tantalum mine, which is owned by private group Global Advanced Metals.

«While carrier customers like the idea of buying infrastructure from large global suppliers, it's not obvious to us that amassing scale for the sake of it makes sense for the vendors,» analysts at Jefferies said in a note Wednesday before the deal was announced.

Not all museums can find a way to survive as free, said John Robinette, senior vice president of economics at AECOM, a global infrastructure company that also works with museums.

Zuckerberg wrote in his February manifesto, «In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us.»

A lack of key infrastructure threatens to strand these resources at a time when global demand for Canadian energy is soaring.»

Dr. Ryan J. Orr is executive director at Stanford University's Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects and teaches classes on Global Project Finance and Infrastructure Investment to law, business, and engineering graduate students.

David Caplan is a Vice-Chairman at Global Public Affairs and former Ontario Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal.

Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

Prior to joining NEC in 2017, Brad was an Analyst in the Global Power, Energy & Infrastructure Group at Lazard in New York.

Previously he was a Director (senior partner) at McKinsey and co-founded and led the Cleantech and Sustainability practice there, working extensively with Global 100 technology, industrial, infrastructure, building systems, retail, utility and energy companies across the US, China, Korea, Japan, India, and Europe.

Attempts to export its excess savings can only lead to one of three outcomes: A) global growth rises because Europe's savings are all directed at developing countries with significant infrastructure investment needs and insufficient capital, B) global growth drops sharply, global unemployment rises, and China's adjustment becomes all but impossible, C) international trade and capital flows collapse in a repeat of the 1930s, so that Europe is forced to resolve its savings imbalance either by a massive increase in unemployment or a wave of sovereign defaults.

This morning, the Global Energy Institute hosted the U.S. Trade Development Authority (USTDA), LNG Allies and others at U.S. Chamber Headquarters for the launch of the U.S. Gas Infrastructure Exports Initiative.

But as Marcus Treacher, Global Head, e-Commerce at HSBC explains, a combination of technology, infrastructure and shifting attitudes / behaviour is changing this.

In the fourth - quarter 2017 issue of Investment Strategy Quarterly, we take a look at global infrastructure, outline the defining characteristics of the asset class, and discuss why this might be a good time to consider initiating new positions in this asset class or adding to existing ones.

«We see infrastructure as the grease that keeps the economy moving along,» Beth Ann Bovino, chief economist at S&P Global Ratings and a co-author of the plan, said in an interview.

Friedman understands that most nations do not have the infrastructure or culture needed to participate in the global economy and may balk at making the necessary changes.

Initially, the bank's program for alleviating global poverty was dominated by a strategy of economic growth, measured primarily in terms of GDP and channeled largely through big projects aimed at infrastructure development that benefited the rich more than the poor.

When he launched the Global Information Infrastructure project in a 1994 speech at the conference of the International Telecommunication Union in Buenos Aires, US Vice President Al Gore spoke very movingly about the creation of this mother of all networks.

Although increased global concern about the environment is largely focused on single - use plastics at present, the importance of sustainable design will play a much greater role in all packaging decisions; returnable and 100 % recyclable glass, with its well - established collection infrastructure across Europe, is well placed to provide customers with fresh options for all their food and drink products.

Spending on modern infrastructure, both the physical infrastructures that allow movement of people and goods and the communications infrastructure on which industry is now dependent, to maximise national benefit and wealth creation across the UK — in particular a focus on a universal digital communications infrastructure, both wireless and fibre world - leading broadband, to build on our strong global position at the forefront of the e-economy.

With a clear agenda and concrete proposals on a global growth deal - opening up trade, tackling tax evasion and boosting infrastructure - Britain should have been leading efforts at the G20 to reach an agreement that would transform African and low - income countries into genuine, much - needed dynamos for the largest prize: the return to global growth.

This is projected to hit N3 trillion ($ 15 billion) due to heavy infrastructure spending at a time when the slump in global oil prices has slashed the country's export revenues.

Dr Bawumia know very well that part of the reasons why the Zimbabwean people are languishing in poverty with low infrastructure development in many parts of its rural zones is this wholesale handing out of the country's mineral resources over the last three decades costing the country millions of jobs.Is Dr Bawumia aware that Zimbabwe has runout of alluvial diamonds at a time when the country has been allowed to sell its gems on the global market.

Among others, the Senate demanded immediate cancellation of the sale of Transcorp Hilton, Sheraton Hotel and Towers Abuja, Delta Steel Company to Global Infrastructure Holding, the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) located in Akwa Ibom State valued at $ 3.2 billion and sold to Dayson Holding BV for the sum of $ 130 million.

«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

I believe that the current system, in which research is mostly funded and organized at the national level, along with the uneven nature of research infrastructure, is greatest barrier to global scientific collaboration.

At Tesla, Cal Lankton, its director of global electric vehicle infrastructure, said they have also seen evidence that these «time of use» rates can be an effective way to influence car owner behavior to benefit the grid.

The authors looked at human pressure over time using the updated global Human Footprint criteria, which includes roads, agriculture, urbanization and industrial infrastructure, along with forest loss.

Greenpeace reports that data centers running these infrastructures consume 1.5 to 2 percent of global energy demand (3 percent in the U.S.), growing at a rate of 12 percent yearly.

The Pallas research infrastructure has been extensively instrumented for modern and versatile monitoring of the environment since the start of continuous monitoring of atmospheric sulphur dioxide (SO2) and ozone (O3) concentrations at Sammaltunturi in September 1991, and with the setup of the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) station in 1994.

My own feel for this is that if we do not achieve global agreement and real action on deep cuts in emissions over the next 10 years or so we will get locked into an inappropriate fossil fuel infrastructure until at least mid-century, that will prevent us from capturing CO2 effectively.

At this rate, the way our energy infrastructure is currently arranged, and the heavy environmental toll of our lifestyle broadly speaking we will, without question, fail to avert global crises,» writes Francisco Hernandez.

It employs Amazon's vast global infrastructure to ensure that files can be accessed and shared from anywhere, at any time — with just a single click.

At the same time as there's aggressive competition happening, Thiemer acknowledges that considering the need across the global market for charging infrastructure, the rising tide of EV sales lifts all boats.

Morgan Stanley finalized in March a fund merger that we highlighted a couple months ago: the five - star, $ 350 million Morgan Stanley Global Infrastructure Fund (UTLAX) merged into Morgan Stanley Institutional Fund Select Global Infrastructure Portfolio (MTIPX) at the end of March.

-LSB-...] global infrastructure business certainly does what I like to see a company doing, which is to grow consistently for years at a time.

This global infrastructure business certainly does what I like to see a company doing, which is to grow consistently for years at a time.

«We previously invested $ 550 million in global technology infrastructure to lay the foundations which have enabled us to bring to market, at scale, the digital tools we have today,» said Geraldine Calpin, Chief Marketing Officer, Hilton.

SF: Nokia acquired the Sega Network technology infrastructure in 2003, and we had started a project called Pocket Kingdom, which was the world's first global, mobile, massively multi-player on - line game with Sega at that time, and both I and Pocket Kingdom went over with that acquisition.

Our goal should be to limit the warming to levels where our global infrastructure continues to function at least somewhat until we can develop a truly sustainable infrastructure.

How much will in cost to reestablish the global food infrastructure at new latitudes?

Global policies to cut shipping emissions could create massive new demand for LNG as a bunker fuel, with Europe in particular planning to invest nearly $ 2.4 bil in LNG refueling infrastructure at both sea and inland ports to 2030.

-- However, if in the absence of mitigation these events eventually rose to provide a substantial cooling, it could be highly variable year to year and thereby impose severely damaging global temperature fluctuations, and it could also be at the cost of a related scale of volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis destroying more of society's infrastructure.

Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?

Answers to that question at the global and regional levels, as well as to equally complex questions of how ecosystems and human activities will be affected, should inform our choices about energy and infrastructure.

In June, the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund awarded the Standing Rock Sioux a $ 250,000 prize plus up to a $ 1 million investment to build renewable energy infrastructure on the reservation, a fitting commemoration to the bravery of water protectors who tried to hold the Dakota pipeline at bay.

Rising global temperatures and associated sea level rise, growing season disruption, and increasingly severe weather events can severely damage infrastructure or tear at the fabric of societies — generating conditions of mass desperation the world over.