Sentences with phrase «white house officers»

The plan was hatched by a small group of White House officers meeting secretly for several weeks without input from most cabinet members, presidential science adviser John Marburger, or the institutes most affected by the proposal.

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Apple (aapl) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday as the company looks to head off a brewing trade war between the U.S. and China.

Nicole Wong, who previously served as the White House's deputy chief technology officer, said tech companies would be reluctant to create a database of jihadists videos, even if it could be kept current enough to be relevant, for fear that repressive governments would demand such set - ups to pre-screen any content they do not like.

President Donald Trump (C) shakes hands with James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., right, and Lisa Jackson, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), arrive at a state dinner in honor of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S.

Goldman Sachs, on the other hand, had to confront the revolving door compensation issue this year when its president and chief operating officer Gary Cohn resigned to accept a position as an economic advisor in the White House.

The honorees will include Joanne Smith, the Chief Human Resources Officer for Delta Air Lines (No. 98 on this year's list), for helping the airline to build a more inclusive workplace by pushing it to commit to the White House Equal Pay Pledge, which encourages U.S. companies to take action to advance equal pay among men and women.

The officials said the raiding party had been on the verge of leaving the white stucco house without finding the man, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, when some officers discovered him hiding in a secret compartment.

CONVERSATION Ursula Burns, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, The White House Moderator: Michal Lev - Ram, Fortune Introduction by: Betsy Broun, Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Clinical Oncology Greg Simon, Executive Director, Cancer Moonshot Task Force, The White House Dr. Ken Robert Smith, Distinguished Professor of Family Studies and Population Science; Director, Utah Population Database, University of Utah Moderator: Clifton Leaf, Fortune

At the White House, the first lady will sit in on meetings with cabinet officers and disagree with Trump, he said.

That includes Kevin Harrington, a managing director of Thiel Capital, who joined the National Security Council, and Michael Kratsios, the chief of staff for Thiel Capital, who took the reins as deputy chief technology officer at the White House.

Jacquie Denny, Founder and Chief Development Officer at Everything But The House (EBTH), a white - glove estate sale service, encourages anyone relocating to «travel light» by purging any items that they do not need before they move.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

White House physician Read Adm. Ronny Jackson, who withdrew his nomination to lead Veterans Affairs, will not return as Trump's personal doctor, and will be replaced by Sean Conley, a Navy officer who has filled in for Jackson over the past month.

President Trump offered Dr. Ronny Jackson an opportunity to drop out of the running to become the next Veterans Affairs secretary, as embarrassing allegations spilled out about the Navy officer drunkenly harassing women and slipping pills to co-workers while serving as the chief White House physician.

Washington (CNN)- An unidentified man who jumped the White House fence on Tuesday was apprehended by uniformed Secret Service officers who approached him with guns drawn.

Mr. President, you will remember that in December 2011 the White House released a presidential memorandum directing executive officers and agencies that deal in foreign affairs to address human rights abuses against LGBT people abroad and to pressure foreign governments to decriminalize homosexuality.

The city already allocated funds to enlarge the police force by some 1,300 officers last June, around the same time Trump launched his improbable bid for the White House.

As Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, put it on the White House Blog (February 18, 2015), «DJ joins the White House following an incredible career as a data scientist.»

In 2015 - 2017 he served in the White House as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer.

Buried in the news of President Barack Obama's recent appointment of Aneesh Chopra as chief technology officer in the White House is the fact that Chopra will also serve as technology honcho for the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Buckius has served as chief operating officer at NSF since October 2014, according to a White House statement, and senior science adviser since June 2014.

Though appearing to be an accident, Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), a nuclear scientist associated with the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe (George Clooney), a United States Army Special Forces intelligence officer, believe otherwise.

While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a police officer takes action to protect his child and the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.

Brian Cox plays Stryker, an ex-Armed Forces officer who uses the events that took place in the White House to push his plans to invade the school.

Kidman plays the «acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group,» and Clooney is an intelligence officer with Army Special Forces.

Edward R. «Ted» McPherson, the chief financial officer for the Department of Agriculture, will be nominated to the job of undersecretary of education, the White House and the Education Department said on Oct. 28.

After advising Secretary Arne Duncan as the Department of Education's first Superintendent in Residence, he now serves as Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer of the United States at the White House.

Keynote speakers included Pedro Rivera, Pennsylvania secretary of education; Roberto Rodriguez, deputy assistant to the president for education at the White House; Judy Schneider, senior analyst at the Congressional Research Service; Carmel Martin, executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress; Lindsay Fryer, senior education policy advisor for the U.S. Senate HELP Committee; and Raul Gonzalez, senior program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

He went on to serve as a Senior Vice President at Voyager Expanded Learning Systems; did a tour in Baghdad Iraq at the request of the White House and Department of Defense, serving as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Education to assist with the rebuilding of the Iraqi school system in 2003; was Superintendent of the Richardson Independent School District; and, perhaps most significantly, served seven years as Chief Executive Officer of AVID, a global nonprofit that helps prepare students for postsecondary education and is one of the leading providers of professional development for educators in the US.

A senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2009 - 2015, Gonzales also has worked at the Pew Charitable Trusts and at the U.S. Department of Education with the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.

RWW includes a former CIA officer, a former Reagan White House NSC officer, and several world travelers.

Recreate «An Officer and a Gentleman» in the historic rooms, which are tucked into quaint white houses that overlook the rolling hills.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Artist, scientist, and inventor Natalie Jeremijenko, director of the Environmental Health Clinic at NYU will be joined by Jean Case, philanthropist, investor, and pioneer in the world of interactive technologies, and Megan Smith, the United States Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Brad Smith, the President and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft took to LinkedIn to write a lengthy disapproval of the U.S. leaving the Paris Climate Accord saying, «We are disappointed with today's decision by the White House to withdraw the United States from the landmark, globally supported Paris Agreement on climate change,» Smith writes.

In January 2015, Secret Service officers searched the south grounds of the White House when hobbyist Shawn Usman crashed a drone in the middle of the night while President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama were in India.

Watch it here to see highlights from the project announcement at the white house and hear from Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft Corporation, LSC's President Jim Sandman, and Mark O'Brien, Pro Bono Net's Executive Director.

In White v. Pauly an officer arrived late on the scene and had no reason to believe that the officers who arrived there before him and were being shot at by citizens in a house that they were approaching, lacked probable cause, or had not announced themselves.

As former chief legal officers of sector companies, and former lawyers for the FCC, the US Department of Justice, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the White House, we have been at the forefront of the convergence of technology and communications and the explosive growth in the sector, providing a full range of services to clients across the communications, media and technology landscape.

Before Starbucks, Paula was an executive in the technology industry (Dell Corporation), a partner in private practice, and dedicated many years of her legal career to public service, including serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Western District of Washington (1988 - 1994) and in various capacities as a U.S. Army officer assigned to the Pentagon and White House Office of Legal Counsel.

The White House should seriously consider filling the role of top science and technology officer sooner rather than later.

«Consumers wouldn't have assumed their data would be used in this way,» said Aneesh Chopra, president of a health software company specializing in patient data called CareJourney and the former White House chief technology officer.

Zuckerberg and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg are making the media rounds in the wake of revelations last month that Cambridge Analytica, a U.K. political data consulting firm with ties to Republican donor Robert Mercer and former White House special adviser Steve Bannon, accessed tens of millions of Facebook users» information without their permission by buying it from someone who originally collected it for research.

Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's senior White House counselor, has served as a Cambridge corporate officer.

(CNN)- President Donald Trump continued to criticize the armed school resource officer in Parkland, Florida, who stayed outside of the school during the shooting, saying during a White House news conference conference that Scot Peterson «doesn't love the children, probably doesn't know the children.»

In a Quora post this week, Ed Felten, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, commented on what the White House thinks of bitcoin, including the recent bitcoin block size debate saying:

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