Sentences with phrase «as a special adviser»

And his predecessor pulled in a sizable paycheck as a special adviser.

One such leader is Setya Novanto, the speaker of the country's House of Representatives who temporarily lost his post for trying to extort $ 4 billion from the American mining company Freeport - McMoRan (a company which counts Carl Icahn, who will be serving as a special adviser in Trump's administration, among its largest shareholders, and which has been frequently criticized by labor advocates and environmentalists).

She has since worked as the special adviser for international disability rights at the Department of State, to which she was appointed during the Obama administration.

Having worked as a special adviser for everyone from Stephen Byers to Geoff Hoon to Gordon Brown, he's used to having various labels attached to him, though the new one is «Milibandite».

Powell - Chandler also worked as a special adviser in Downing Street under David Cameron and has recently been working as a policy consultant for homelessness charity Crisis.

Patrick has spent ten years as a special adviser in various roles at the heart of British government, including 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office.

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).

This has opened up a battle over who will get jobs as special advisers in a Cameron government.

New York - based art dealer Rachel Kaminsky Fine Art LLC acted as a special adviser to the National Gallery in its search for a pre-eminent American painting for its collection.

The New York Post reported last week that Marinoni resigned from her $ 131,708 - a-year government position as a special adviser for community partnerships in New York City in advance of a potential Nixon campaign for governor.

«When Van Jones was tapped to serve as special adviser on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality earlier this year, the appointment was heralded as a significant development for the green movement.

Ayesha Hazarika spent a decade at at the heart of government as a special adviser to Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman and is now a writer, comedian and political commentator.

Even the government of the day can not involve the civil service formally in manifesto preparation for the next parliament, as I remember from my time as a special adviser prior to the 2010 general election.

He enters the public affairs world after four years at The Sun and eight months as special adviser to culture secretary Karen Bradley.

Warren has previously asked regulators to look into Icahn's role as a special adviser to President Donald Trump, arguing that the arrangement is fraught with potential conflicts considering Icahn's's extensive investment portfolio.

«When Mr Cameron was working as a special adviser at the Home Office he had concerns about Michael Howard's crackdown on raves - not least because his then girlfriend was attending them.

The winner of the 36th Senate District primary in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will likely fill the seat left vacant by former Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, who in July resigned from her post to work for Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a special adviser for policy and community affairs of state Homes and Community Renewal.

Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker and candidate for mayor, is joining the Cuomo administration as a special adviser, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced today.

While McTernan was employed as a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland he sent an email to the then Labour MSP Karen Gillon, who was about to make a trip to Sweden in which he said

Vince Cable, the business secretary who made his name as a special adviser to John Smith when he was a Labour cabinet minister in the 1970s, often speaks of how he feels more comfortable with his former party.

• Joe Tucci joined 83North as a special adviser.

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.

In May 1997, Miliband joined the Treasury as special adviser to chancellor Gordon Brown.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama plans to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to help set up a new consumer protection agency created under the Wall Street reform bill, according to sources who spoke on condition of not being identified by name.

David Davis and Philip Hammond are the latest Tory cabinet ministers to hire senior figures from the world of journalism as their special advisers.

Meanwhile, pro-Brexit cabinet ministers Leadsom and Patel have hired media operatives from the official Leave campaign as their special advisers.

At the same time, the new chancellor has appointed Sky News consumer affairs correspondent Poppy Trowbridge as a special adviser.

Eight years later, she married Christine Marinoni, who worked for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as a special adviser for community partnerships in the city's education department.

Cummings worked for Michael Gove from 2007 to January 2014, first in opposition and then as a special adviser in the Department of Education after the 2010 general election.

Perhaps so, but Mandelson didn't hire young friends as special advisers, so far as I know.»

The Speaker, while reading the list, did not distinguish those whose names were sent to the House for confirmation as commissioners from those nominated for appointment as special advisers.

The Tory grandee's latest remarks come a week after Lord Howard — who employed Cameron as a special adviser at the Home Office in the 1990s and also supported him in the 2005 Tory leadership contest — also urged voters to back Brexit.

The set - up is reminiscent of Gove's days as education secretary, when he had Henry De Zoete as a special adviser and James Frayne as his department's communications director.

Overclaimed expenses are bad enough, but throw in alleged flipping to minimise her tax bill, as well as a special adviser's apparent use of the culture secretary's role in press regulation to menace a journalist, and the scandal becomes utterly poisonous.

However, shortly before he died, he was reassigned to the ministry of commerce and industry as a special adviser to the governor.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, former Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau and state police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico will join the commission as special advisers.

Conybeare, whose last day as special adviser to the governor is Friday, said it was «time for me to focus on my future both professionally and personally» now that construction is reaching the halfway point.

While the prime minister employs ex-Mail features writer Liz Sanderson as a special adviser to promote her agenda via features pages and magazines not read by political junkies, the culture secretary has appointed Charlotte Griffiths as her media adviser.

At the same time, POLITICO's Jack Blanchard reports that Bradley has brought in Romilly Dennys as a special adviser with a focus on policy.

Rebecca Harris - who «worked in publishing, then later for the Conservative Research Department and as a special adviser helping to put together party policies on health, education and transport at the last election» - had been in the final for next week's Bournemouth West final with Mike Greene.

Many of them served apprenticeships as special advisers to senior ministers — the so - called spadocracy - and learned at an early age to listen to civil servants and to mine their memories.

On 29 June 2007, Lester was appointed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a special adviser on constitutional reform to the Secretary of State for Justice.

So will other Liberal Democrat functionaries within the Government, such as special advisers.

David Cameron criticised the number of political appointees known as special advisers (Spads) under Labour and promised to scale them back - but the number has gone up under the coalition.

But a senior flu scientist recruited by NSABB as a special adviser says the panel did the right thing.

After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane's personal fiefdom as a special adviser on the case.

After retiring in 2015, he transitioned from the museum world to the auction world, joining Phillips as a special adviser to the CEO, Edward Dolman.

In the near term, Juan will continue to provide guidance to the WJP as a special adviser on developing projects and opportunities.

A close friend of Michael Gove, he had worked as his special adviser when Gove was minister of education, alongside another senior Vote Leave director, its head of digital, Henry de Zoete.

Trump named Icahn as a special adviser to his administration in December, tasked with helping him overhaul federal regulations.