Sentences with phrase «as panel chair»

The often - cited case of Committee for Justice and Liberty et al. v. National Energy Board et al., [1978] 1 SCR 369 addressed his role as panel chair in an NEB hearing related to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.

Renzler will serve as panel chair and moderator.

On a cool, smoggy morning here on 25 January, Pachauri defended IPCC's work and shot back at critics who want to see him ousted as panel chair.

Alex is a long time judge of the FreeFrom Food Awards (UK), The FreeFrom Eating Out Awards and was appointed as a Panel Chair to the FreeFrom Food Awards (Ireland) in 2016.

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Out of an abundance of charity to Professor Leach, and with all due respect to his unimpeachable contributions as Chair of the Alberta Climate Leadership Panel, his argument may well rest on a more nuanced political assumption: that Alberta's leadership is required to bring the rest of the provinces along.

Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

He served as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 to 2015.

He also chairs the publication's annual awards programme, including The Drinks Business Awards for product innovations and environmental initiatives, as well as the magazine's Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Champagne and Rioja Masters, for which he heads up a tasting panel of wine experts.

He writes for many wine publications including Decanter and The World of Fine Wine, judges about ten wine competitions a year in Australia and overseas, and is involved in judging or contributing to many other wine activities, including chairing the biennial Vin de Champagne Awards and various other competitions, also working as a panellist for SIPNOT (Stonier International Pinot Noir Tasting), a member of the judging panel for the annual Winemaker of the Year Award and various others.

During 2014 - 16, he has been an active member of the High Level Committee set up by the government (NDA - II) to restructure the food management system in the country (known as Shanta Kumar Panel); member of the Task Force set up by the Prime Minister under NITI on Agriculture Sector Reforms; and also Chairing a Committee for Agri - Marketing Reforms in the country.

As predicted, Prof Ian Harper will Chair the panel.

In a discussion chaired by HVS chairman Russell Kett involving senior executives from Starwood Capital, Precis Holdings, citizenM and London & Regional Properties, the panel debated how it is leisure rather than corporate demand that is currently of more interest to hoteliers, as corporate rates have been relatively static over recent years.

For the last few years I have served as the chair of my local safer neighbourhood ward panel, which sets the priorities for local policing.

Thanks should be extended to all presenters, as well as to Professor Matthew Craven (SOAS, University of London) and Dr Grietje Baars (City University London) for chairing panels, and to the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford for sponsoring the event.

The ousting of Ann Black as chair of Labour's disputes panel carried an unhealthy whiff of sectarianism.

The panel is chaired by two district attorneys, Kathleen Rice of Nassau County and William Fitzpatrick of Onondaga County, as well as Milton Williams, a New York City lawyer.

She caught the public's attention on financial matters even before she held office, as an academic and chair of the oversight panel for the government's bailout of the financial industry.

«Prominent among recommendations made by the Banire panel is a proposal to strengthen the national chairman position as chief accounting officer of the party as well as to empower him to chair all statutory meetings except that of the newly - introduced advisory council.

A panel commissioned to review practices at New York's troubled ethics commission held its one and only public hearing Wednesday, as its Chair says lack of staff and excess of paperwork may make it difficult to meet the group's November 1st deadline.

The Panel of Chairs (formerly the Chairmen's Panel) are members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom responsible for chairing public bill committees and other General Committees, as well as debates in Westminster Hall, the parallel debating chamber.

This year alone, three Senate Republicans held chairmanships of lesser paying committees but instead took the higher stipends from the panels where they served as vice chairs, which under law do not come with pay.

The Speaker can not vote in a division in the House unless the numbers are equal, and then he or she has a casting vote.146 The provision for a casting vote also applies to Members deputising for or acting in the position of Speaker (that is, Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, or another Member as Acting Speaker).147 The provision for a casting vote does not apply to members of the Speaker's panel in the Chair, unless specifically appointed by resolution of the House as Acting Speaker, as it has been considered that the standing orders providing for the nomination and duties of the members of the Speaker's panel do not fulfil the requirements of s. 36 of the Constitution, which refers to the House choosing a Member to perform the duties of an absent Speaker.148

The Speaker appoints a number of Members to the Speaker's panel and the Speaker or Deputy Speaker may call on any one of them to take the Chair as Deputy Speaker.

David Johnston, chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation, also receives an OBE, as do Gerri McAndrew, chief executive of Buttle UK, former chief executive of the Fostering Network, and chair of the grant management panel at the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies, and Naomi Marek, chief executive of Sky Badger, which supports the families of children with disabilities or special educational needs.

He founded HELP and chaired Mayor Dinkins» panel on homelessness, then served for four years as HUD Secretary.

These included funding for dinners for the panel of chairs, a group of MPs who help with Bercow's parliamentary duties, # 1,700 on a reception for retiring MPs, # 3,000 on an event for newly elected MPs, and # 2,000 on a «standing down» dinner for Dawn Primarolo, who served as deputy speaker and is now a peer.

Greenfield represents Brooklyn's 44th Council District which includes the neighborhoods of Midwood, Borough Park and Bensonhurst, and unlike those appointed to head other key panels such as Finance Committee chair Julissa Ferreras, he isn't a member of the labor - backed Progressive Caucus.

• Britain has been challenged to withdraw its support for Saudi Arabia as chair of the UN human rights council panel as the closeness of the UK - Saudi relationship was dismissed as sycophantic by the Liberal Democrats and Labour called for an end to judicial cooperation with Riyadh.

In February 1998, bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel had to leave President Bill Clinton's bioethics panel on his appointment as chair of the bioethics department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md..

Specter, a former chair of the spending panel that allocates the NIH budget, already had enormous clout as one of a handful of moderate Republicans who could exchange his vote for goodies and help Democrats get legislation through.

WASHINGTON — Outspoken vaccine critic Robert Kennedy Jr. has accepted a position within Donald Trump's administration as chair of a panel on vaccine safety and scientific integrity — the clearest sign yet of the president - elect's suspicions about vaccines.

But biomedical lobbyists hope that he will use his clout as chair of both the Senate spending panel that controls NIH's budget and the authorizing committee that sets policy for the agency to make things happen when the lame - duck Congress returns after the fall election.

Possible successors as chair of the subcommittee include Nita Lowey (D - NY), and Rosa DeLauro (D - CT), who follow Obey in seniority on the panel.

The chair of the panel, Representative Mo Brooks (R - AL), explained that «the goal of this hearing is not to question whether the social, behavioral, and economic sciences produce interesting and sound research, as I believe we all can agree that they do.»

Lo and behold, the tasters ranked the whiskey as «grassier» when sitting in lawn chairs among potted plants, «sweeter» when sniffing a sugary scent before a bowl of berries, and «woodier» when savoring the beverage surrounded by wood paneling and listening to a soundtrack of a crackling fire — even though they knew they were drinking the same whiskey the whole time.

The initiative emphasizes algebra as the key to educational success and so will the panel, says its chair, Larry Faulkner, a chemist and president emeritus of the University of Texas, Austin.

Chaired by chemist C. N. R. Rao of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, the report from the 32 - member SAC panel describes genetic modification as a transformational technology that has benefited agriculture and health.

His views: As chair of the Republican National Committee, Priebus oversaw the creation of the 2016 party platform that called the widely respected Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change «a political mechanism, not an unbiased scientific institution.»

He currently serves as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, and is chair of the Panel on Earth Science Applications and Societal Needs.

Dressler chaired the panel of the NRC's 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics research.

In developing strategies for the new decade, the committee convened an ad hoc cross-panel working group chaired by F. Bash, 2 NSF - funded National Observatories, to review the functioning of all NSF - funded observatories and initiate discussion with the relevant panels and with the committee as a whole.

She served as the elected chair of the US Pharmacopoeia Dietary Supplements and Botanical Expert Panel.

It's a lovely, rusty chocolate and soft as can be, plus there's something distinguished and gentlemanly about it that reminds me of wood - paneled libraries and leather chairs.

At the Conference, Scamalytics VP of Sales, Dave Wiseman, gave a talk on «New Methods of Fraud Detection», as well as chairing a panel on safety, featuring representatives from the Attorney - General's office and dating safety charity ScamSurvivors.

Played convincingly by Wilson as a man who would genuinely like to know the truth, he is a surrogate for us: A jurist who will chair a panel to get to the bottom of those tragic years.

As advocated by the 22 - member panel chaired by former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, both bills would expand the Congressionallymandated National Assessment of Educational Progress to provide state - by - state data, measure learning in more core subjects, include out - of - school 17 - year - olds, and provide a larger sampling of private - school students.

Long has been a presidential appointee and served as Chair of the National Board for Education Sciences (NBES), the advisory panel of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education.

Through Growth to Achievement: Report of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools, also known as Gonski 2.0 after the chair of the review panel, David Gonski, was released on 30 April.

In my role as Chair of the judging panel for the annual ICT Excellence Awards in Northern Ireland, I am privileged to visit primary, secondary and special schools that are transforming learning and teaching using educational technology.

The panel, with Kaya Henderson, Former Superintendent of DC Public Schools; Dr. Mahalia Hines, CEO of ThinkCommon Foundation; and Jessie Woolley - Wilson, President, CEO and Chair of DreamBox Learning, discussed the importance that proximity plays in developing effective and innovative solutions in education, as well as serving children and communities of high need.