Sentences with phrase «as conference chair»

Creating and establishing the Missouri Bar Family Law Conference; serving as Conference Chair for eight years

As conference chair Don George has said, it's kind of like summer camp for travel writers.

My biggest goal as conference chair is that each conference is better than the last one.

Pamela Nowak reeled me in to replace her as conference chair in 2011.

2016 sees the return of Evan Davis from Newsnight and Dragon's Den as conference chair — his economic expertise and probing questions ensure the event will deliver maximum insight into the conference theme, «Teamwork and Collaboration».

Not exact matches

One day as the morning sun pours through the windows of a conference room at headquarters, Smith leans back in an office chair and swivels the empty one to his right with a free hand as he talks.

All eyes on the Fed today, as the Federal Open Market Committee concludes its two - day meeting with a policy statement and a press conference featuring Fed Chair Janet Yellen.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Wednesday delivers her final news conference of her tenure as head of the central bank.

I also had the privilege of chairing the annual conference for the Australian Institute of Company Directors for about 6 - 7 years and putting that conference together was a fascinating exercise and has taken me to different parts of the world and the Asia pacific area such as Beijing, Shanghai, Christchurch and Singapore.

«We are convinced that yesterday's decision by the United States to leave the Paris agreement is a big mistake,» Tusk, who chairs EU summits as the head of the European Council, told a news conference with Li and the EU's chief executive Jean - Claude Juncker.

To its credit, judging by the «dots» embodying long run rate projections as well as Chair Yellen's press conference, the Fed has started to recognize the idea of a declining neutral real rate.

Markets are all over the place after the much - awaited first rate hike of the new Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the following press conference, as central...

She has been an invited guest lecturer and speaker at numerous universities, including Stanford, Carnegie - Mellon, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, and Ohio State University, as well as numerous public and private conferences and seminars across the globe, where she has chaired and spoken on the topics of corporate governance, performance, value, compensation and risk.

He swivels in his chair and looks down at a conference room table as he explains his missteps.

In his remarks to a standing room crowd at RJFS» national conference, RJFS Chair Dick Averitt is reported to have embraced the fiduciary standard because, in part, of its mandate to serve society at large, as attorneys and medical doctors are obliged to do.

Many people are familiar with the FED's monetary policy responsibilities, including the FOMC meetings, Federal Funds Rate decisions, Fed Chair's press conference, as well as various unconventional policies.

As chair of this year's conference it gave me great pride to welcome attendees to Gatineau, Quebec for the third annual Canadian Employee Ownership Cconference it gave me great pride to welcome attendees to Gatineau, Quebec for the third annual Canadian Employee Ownership ConferenceConference.

U. S. Federal Reserve staffers watch from the back of the room as Fed Chair Janet Yellen holds a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington September 17, 2015.

When another saintly Benedict did finally emerge, this time upon the Chair of Peter, his cultural analysis echoed that of MacIntyre: «I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority,» suggested Pope Benedict XVI during an in - flight papal press conference in 2009.

Currently chairing both the nonaligned movement and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Malaysia prides itself as a country forging an Islamic model very different from that in Saudi Arabia or Iran.

This crude image of John Paul as a Polish Lear raging impotently on the heath underlies what is perhaps Bernstein and Politi's most egregious passage: an eight - page account of the March 1994 meeting between the Pope and Mrs. Nafis Sadik, the UN bureaucrat who was to chair the Cairo world population conference in September of that year.

Our Chairs and Facilitators, and Keynote, Overview and Case Study speakers at the 2016 conference are listed below, in alphabetical order, with links to their bios, and presentation abstracts and papers (as available).

Randy is a graduate of Purdue University in Restaurant, Hotel and Institution Management and will serve as the president of AHF, having previously served as treasurer and conference chair.

Ms. Dominguez also has extensive non-profit management experience and has served as our 2013 Conference Planning Chair and worked on the organizing committee for the 2013 Great Cloth Diaper Change event.

It brought me to recognize some leadership skills in myself as I dove into being on the board of Babywearing International and then chairing the 2010 International Babywearing Conference.

November 29 2001 At a news conference today, Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Services Caroline Orzac Shoenberger and KID Executive Director Nancy Cowles, among others, urged individuals to pay special attention to children's items most commonly used or given as gifts, such as cribs, car seats, high chairs, strollers / baby carriers and play pens during the holiday season.

A childbirth educator, author, and researcher for over 25 years, she has presented on cesarean and VBAC issues at national conferences and in advanced doula trainings across the U.S. Jukelevics served as Chair of the ICEA's Cesarean Options Committee and the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services.

I've been doing more work with [SNA]-- I'm going to be the legislative chair for our county this year, and last year as [Richmond County SNA] president I went to our GSNA and LAC conferences.

The lawmakers of the Independent Democratic Conference have lost their committee chair posts as the IDC moves to disband and end its alignment with Senate Republicans.

Awarded the Peace Prize for his work as chair of the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1932, Henderson was also leader of the Labour Party from 1908 — 10, 1914 — 17 and 1931 - 32.

The use of falsely classifying lawmakers as committee chairs came under scrutiny on Friday as The New York Times reported members of the Independent Democratic Conference — Sens. David Valesky, Jose Peralta and Diane Savino — have received stipends, or «lulus» in Albany parlance, despite holding the post of vice chair.

Helming is one of seven lawmakers in the Senate — three Independent Democratic Conference members, plus four Senate Republicans — who were listed falsely as committee chairs on Senate records forwarded to the state comptroller's office.

Senate Democrats have called for an investigation into the arrangement in which seven state lawmakers, including three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, have received stipends and were listed as committee chairs on official payroll records sent to the comptroller's office.

He was even introduced recently at a press conference as the «next chair» of the caucus, to which he replied a terse «not yet.»

«Our conference has always been very supportive of agriculture as you know, but talks continue and we'll see what happens next,» said Senate Finance Committee Chair Cathy Young, R - Olean.

Bill Morris, former General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union (now part of Unite), once said that the most powerful position he had ever held was not at the TGWU, nor at the TUC, Bank of England, or BBC, but as chair of Labour's conference arrangements committee.

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

As a representative for Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, and Chair of the New York State Senate Latino Conference, I believe our community will not be well served by this proposal; it will hit our low - income and vulnerable residents the hardest.

Emanuel is currently unopposed as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus; Schumer agreed to head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for a second consecutive cycle and was named Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic conference.

Mr. Avella, the chair of the Senate Ethics Committee and a part of the five - member breakaway Democratic bloc known as the Independent Democratic Conference, said his bill would apply to public relations, strategic communications and campaign consulting firms earning more than $ 5,000.

A faction of breakaway Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference has been in the news lately for receiving stipend payments for chairing committees that the Senators in fact did not chair.

As a former chair of Hammersmith Labour Party in west London, Milne organised an election campaign for the then local MP, Clive (now Lord) Soley, and attended annual conferences as a delegatAs a former chair of Hammersmith Labour Party in west London, Milne organised an election campaign for the then local MP, Clive (now Lord) Soley, and attended annual conferences as a delegatas a delegate.

Those nine Democrats (eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference or the IDC and Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder) got leadership positions as the chairs or vice-chairs of committees.

According to Diaz, who chairs the Senate's Puerto Rican / Latino Caucus, Sampson has appointed Sen. Martin Malavé Dilan to serve as assistant minority leader for Senate Policy and Administration; Sen. José Peralta to serve as Senate Democratic Conference minority whip; and Sen. Adriano Espaillat, to serve as chair of Senate Minority Business Development and as the ranking member of the Senate Housing Committee.

And Silver hasn't formally named the chairs of a score of legislative committees and leadership posts, which gives him instant leverage over the conference, as the titles each carry cash stipends worth thousands of dollars.

Conference committees were gathering, but at this meeting of the Higher Education conference committee, little was accomplished, as Assembly Chair Deborah Glick admitted the committee had not yet been told the amount of money it has toConference committees were gathering, but at this meeting of the Higher Education conference committee, little was accomplished, as Assembly Chair Deborah Glick admitted the committee had not yet been told the amount of money it has toconference committee, little was accomplished, as Assembly Chair Deborah Glick admitted the committee had not yet been told the amount of money it has to allocate.

The reception was held in honor of Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, who announced he would succeed Felix Ortiz as chair of the Legislature's Puerto Rican / Hispanic Task Force after the completion of the Somos conference.

«I can advance things as chair of the committee, but I also think it's important to recognize that we might have things we want to advance as a [Republican] conference, and those are discussions that need to take place,» he told Capital Wednesday after the hearing in Albany.

As Chair of the Senate Latino Conference, Espaillat has championed state - based reform solutions, including legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, the DREAM Act and the Farmworkers Bill of Rights.

«Based on what the comptroller has said, the bottom line here is... the Senate has the discretion... to assign stipends, and that's what happened in this case,» said Sen. Jose Peralta, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference who gets an extra $ 12,500 atop his $ 79,500 base pay for serving as vice chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Commission.