Sentences with phrase «government affairs policy»

Christie DeSanctis is NAR's government affairs policy representative on business issues.

Second row standing from left to right: F. Robert Salerno, President & CEO, Cendant Car Rental Group; Richard Wistrand, Senior Vice President & Chief Fossil Officer, TXU; David Rader, Senior Vice President Finance and CFO, Frito - Lay Division, PepsiCo, Inc.; Mirian Graddick - Weir, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, AT&T; Lisa Martin, Vice President, Global Sourcing, Pfizer, Inc.; Theo Fletcher, Vice President, Supply Chain Compliance, Security & Diversity, IBM Corporation; A. Shuanise Washington, Vice President Government Affairs Policy and Outreach, Altria Group, Inc.; Bruce Perkins, Vice President, Manager, Supplier Diversity and Business Development Group, Merrill Lynch; Joyce M. Wichie, Director, Supplier Diversity, Worldwide Purchasing, Eastman Kodak Company; Dick Anderson, Vice Chairman, Planning & Administration, BellSouth Corporation; John D. Hofmeister, President and Country Chair, Shell Oil Company; Robert McCormes - Ballou, Director, Vendor Diversity, Office Depot; and Michael L. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS.

Dr. Dykes has spent his professional career leading and executing agricultural government affairs policies and strategies and will assume the CEO role in January 2017.

Not exact matches

Martin Moen, the director general at Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would be «very difficult to see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.

Sebastian Vos, co-chair of global public policy and government affairs team at legal firm Covington, warned currency traders that they should expect lot of uncertainty surrounding the negotiations in the coming months.

Fran Townsend, former Homeland Security Advisor to United States; Executive Vice President, Worldwide Government, Legal and Business Affairs, MacAndrews & Forbes Inc; Michèle Flournoy, Chief Executive Officer, Center for a New American Security, and Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Moderator: Nina Easton, Fortune

Younger cabinet ministers, like Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk, Education Minister Jeff Johnson and Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths, constantly talk off the cuff and appear to sometimes be making government policy on the fly.

Prior to joining the Council, Brian was an economist and policy analyst in the federal government with positions at the Department of Finance, Global Affairs Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office.

The committee will be chaired by the Special Secretary (Economic Affairs) and will include a diverse group of representatives from a number of government bodies including, but not limited to: the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the State Bank of India, and Indian policy think - tank NITI Aayog.

Tom Farr, president of the Religious Freedom Institute, told CT that Brownback «has the experience, passion, and gravitas to make the advancement of international religious freedom an all - of - government policy that will engage all US foreign affairs agencies.»

Following the Imperial policy of extrapolating the influence of the state over the Church, theologians began to accept more and more government control in ecclesiastical affairs; even priest seminaries were no longer a space free from government intrusion.

Individual energy conservation is not a substitute for effective citizen participation in civic affairs, for industrial energy conservation or revamped government energy policies.

Comment - UK Alcohol Policy is All Bluff and Bluster The UK's Coalition Government is showing every sign of being stumped by the country's love affair with the bottle, not that the industry is compla

Comment - UK Alcohol Policy is All Bluff and Bluster The UK's Coalition Government is showing every sign of being stumped by the country's love affair with the bottle, not that the industry is compla... read more

The preliminary government response was delivered by Chris Bowen, then Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs in the Rudd (Labor) Government - view press release (5 Auggovernment response was delivered by Chris Bowen, then Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs in the Rudd (Labor) Government - view press release (5 AugGovernment - view press release (5 August 2008).

The Fox Valley Park District makes every effort to comply with the State of Illinois Public Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which states that all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts and policies of those who represent them as public officials and public employees.

Juliet Eilperin is The Washington Post's senior national affairs correspondent, covering how the new administration is transforming a range of U.S. policies and the federal government itself.

In 2012 the AAPD through the Council on Government Affairs developed a state Public Policy Advocate initiative in order to strengthen and coordinate advocacy efforts by our state chapters.

The foreign affairs committee, publishing its report on East Asia today, calls on the government to change its policy towards China, which it describes as a major «regional and international player».

During the Sierra Leone arms affair, Murray is troubled by a British high commissioner whose propensity for acting outside UK government policy and engagement in diplomatic freelancing results in major scandal.

To be frank, I suspect that the chair of the home affairs select committee will be more able to get a public platform and more able to influence policy than a shadow cabinet minister or even the most junior ministers in government.

More controversially, they also cover material relating to government policy formulation (including the background information on which decisions were based) and anything else which «would in the reasonable opinion of a qualified person be likely to prejudice the effect conduct of public affairs» - something again left undefined in the Act.

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«The Federal Election Campaign Act's prohibition on foreign contributions is the broadest prohibition in the entire statute,» said Brett Kappel, a partner in the government affairs and public policy practice of the law firm Ackerman in Washington, D.C.

«The government goes into European negotiations with no policy on European defence; it is not mentioned in the coalition agreement; no policy on European energy - also not mentioned; and on justice and home affairs, all they can say is that they will review cases one by one; no principles, no plans,» he said.

The press release touts Jenkins as someone with «over a dozen years of experience in local and national politics, government administration and public policy» and also makes mention of his two consulting firms: Patrick B. Jenkins and Associates (opened in 2008) and Distinctive Public Affairs (co-founded with MarySol Rodriguez).

Margaret served as the Director of Policy & Government Affairs to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart from 2012 to 2014.

The Lords economic affairs committee warns the ban is an example of how the government has become «excessively risk averse» when formulating policy, listening to the media too much and failing to make fully objective decisions.

Danny Kushlick, head of external affairs at the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, said: «Millions of us want the Government to take control of the cannabis trade.

But in their response to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's annual human rights report, the foreign affairs committee urges the government to consider its policies.

Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee, commented on the government's policy on student visas:

In 2001 the Commons» Home Affairs Select Committee carried out a major study into drugs, entitled «The Government's Drugs Policy: Is it working?».

«Personable, politically savvy, strong management skills, and a quick study on policy, this has to quash any outstanding fears or queasiness among Republicans about the direction the new governor might go,» added Higdon, who is now a vice president at Cornerstone Government Affairs.

Terming the reports as «incorrect,» Mahishini Colonne, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded, saying that «if there arises a requirement for Sri Lanka to procure aircraft of this nature, in keeping with the policy of the Government of Sri Lanka to maintain transparency, expressions of interest will be called for, from all concerned.»

«With climate change gone from Hilary Benn's [environment, food and rural affairs secretary] in - tray, his department must spend more time banging heads together across Whitehall to really make thorough «rural proofing» of government policy a reality,» he said.

It was the heads of government that imposed the Single Currency and it is they who are pressing for a common foreign and defence policy as well as European competence in justice and home affairs.

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation — policy development — management and government affairs to promote the Crime Commission's agenda of making...

Speaking at a Breakfast Business Meeting hosted by the Mauritius Minister for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade in collaboration with the Board of Investment of Mauritius, Dr. Bawumia emphasized the NPP government's determination to make the private sector a major player in Ghana's economy, and called on Mauritian and other businesses to take advantage of the pro-business policies announced in the budget.

In British politics, the Shadow Home Secretary is the person within the shadow cabinet who «shadows» the Home Secretary; this effectively means scrutinising government policy on home affairs including policing, national security, immigration, the criminal justice system, the prison service, and matters of citizenship.

«This would include working for organisations that seek to influence government policy such as trades unions and industry bodies; work for campaigning organisations and pressure groups who are seeking to influence government; and work for agencies working in the field of public affairs or government relations who try to influence government on behalf of their clients,» he wrote.

In these affairs, what matters is the Government's policies and conduct.

For now, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs has maintained its position, saying the increasing need for lawyers in light of recent federal government actions pertaining to immigration policy have forced the city to reevaluate and prioritize how the allocations are funded.

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A fellow of the Centre for Democracy and Development, who is an expert in Nigerian affairs, Mr. Matthew Page, said it was unfortunate that there was disunity between the Presidency and the Senate, stating that the event of things showed that both arms of the government might continue to engage more in politicking than making policies, thereby unable to address the various challenges the country is facing.

The Special Assistant to the Imo State Government on Public Affairs, Hon Lisa Asugha has called on Imo citizens to align with the novel policy of...

For Clement Nwankwo, of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre in Abuja, «the bigger question (about the Maina affair) is how much control does the president have over his government».

Sixty - one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats, according to a new survey from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Technological innovations have dropped the price of wind and solar in some markets to be not only competitive with traditional fossil fuel power generation, but sometimes less expensive, said Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy and government affairs for Advanced Energy Economy.

Scientists can consult with their institutions» public affairs and government relations offices and join groups like Engaging Scientists and Engineers in Policy that seek to empower scientists to involve themselves in the policymaking process, panelists said.