Sentences with phrase «as policy advisers»

And other law school friends of Obama have emerged as policy advisers, including Cassandra Butts, domestic policy expert at the Center for American Progress, and Julius Genachowski, who worked at the FCC.

Before joining the administration of Spitzer in 2007, she worked as his policy adviser for eight years when he was state attorney general.

The former Barclays director left the City in 1997 and later he worked as a policy adviser to the then shadow Chancellor Osborne and also advised Boris Johnson on his Mayor of London campaign.

My experience is as a policy adviser, not a scientist.

Less Government is an «organization dedicated to reducing the power of government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault,» which was founded and run by Seton Motley, who is also listed as a policy adviser to the climate science - denying Heartland Institute.

Not exact matches

The former White House senior policy adviser for infrastructure has joined real estate - focused venture capital firm Camber Creek as a partner.

«The proposition that held from the 1950s until recently is that as businesses did well, so would workers,» says Robert Shapiro, a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clpolicy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill ClPolicy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton.

The two conservative senators this week expressed deep concern that MacManus was too close to Clinton during her tenure, doesn't share Trump's «America First» agenda and other conservative foreign - policy goals, and, as one of Clinton's closest advisers, was deeply involved in the State Department's initial response to the Benghazi attack.

As Director General for Defence and Intelligence in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, he was the lead adviser on counter-proliferation and other defence policy and intelligence areas.

He has worked with Canadian politicians and policymakers of all political stripes to craft more effective public policy, including his most recent role as an outside economic adviser to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

The first involved establishing personal contact with Americans perceived as sympathetic to Moscow — such as former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and early Trump foreign - policy adviser Carter Page — and using them as a means to further Russia's foreign - policy goals.

And I don't mean that as a compliment, even though I served as a foreign policy adviser to Rubio's presidential campaign.

Some went to high - profile, high - pressure jobs like Robert E. Rubin, a former senior partner, who is now one of President Clinton's trusted policy advisers as the head of the National Economic Council.

«It's the life - saving mode: Trying to save as many lives as possible,» said Larry Larson, senior policy adviser at the Association of State Floodplain Managers.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

«I don't understand what anybody thinks we gain by taking away people's ability to work and subject them to deportation,» said Cecilia Muñoz, who helped create the program as the chief domestic policy adviser to Mr. Obama.

Investors are looking for evidence that the White House economic adviser or Federal Reserve chairman can act as an insurance policy against a trade war.

But at best the story can seem frivolous, and at worst it can feel like a distraction from the damage done by Trump's policy decisions (like, most recently, appointing a man who has called for war with both North Korea and Iran as national security adviser).

The panel never interviewed key witnesses such as former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos or former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.

The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process.

It argues that during the 2016 presidential election, the FBI used the so - called Steele dossier, a largely unconfirmed opposition research document alleging collusion between Trump and Russia, as the basis for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

His withdrawal is a casualty of this week's major developments in the Mueller probe — most notably, the revelation that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign whom Clovis supervised as national co-chair, had recently pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

The Washington Post counts 37 high - level Trump aides or advisers who've resigned or been fired, including a chief of staff, multiple agency heads, and — importantly, given the administration's need to build a bench for its future — deputy directors of the National Economic Council, the National Security Council, and the Domestic Policy Council, as well as multiple deputy chiefs of staff.

A string of staff changes has taken place in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office, including the recent addition of Rick Theis as a new policy adviser.

From 1998 to 2000, Mr Solovyev held the position of Deputy Director of the Department of Tax Policy and worked as an adviser to the Minister for Taxes of the Russian Federation.

Mr. Trump's advisers said the president remains resolute and views the pugilistic approach as the only way to force China to end two decades of industrial policies that have hollowed out American manufacturing and resulted in a ballooning trade deficit.

Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign - policy adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted by a state television website as saying Iran will not remain in the nuclear deal if the U.S. withdraws, according to Arab News.

Whetstone is known for her assertive style (consider her GIF - y retort to Rupert Murdoch), while Google's recent moves, including the appointment of a former Obama adviser as its policy chief, signal a less combative approach.

As former Nixon economics adviser Herbert Stein observed, President Bush has made economic growth the acid test by which every other policy is to be judged, believing that such growth will permit progress on other fronts, including raising the standard of living for the poor.

Yesterday, Kass, who also serves as the senior policy adviser on Healthy Eating Initiatives, told a conference of 400 chefs and children's health / anti-hunger advocates that the White House remains excited and optimistic about the bill's prospects during the next session in November.

Laws had a rare vantage point at the centre of Coalition government as he attended the Quad, met regularly with Clegg and his policy advisers, served on important Cabinet Committees, frequently brokering deals between the Coalition parties.

Tabling oral and written questions has a similar effect, as pressure mounts on policy officials and special advisers in a department to find answers, and to consider why so many questions are being asked on a particular issue.

The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy fuel oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.

Having previously been a policy adviser at Barnardos, a senior adviser to the Children's Commissioner for England, a think tank boss and a Downing Street adviser, Burghart has impeccable credentials as a policy brain and many Tory MPs think he has an important part to play in the Tory revival.

White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller unloaded on CNN host Jake Tapper, trashing Michael Wolff as a «garbage author of a garbage book,» calling Steve Bannon an «angry and vindictive person» and accusing the network of «sticking knives» into President Donald Trump's allies.

A former policy adviser at the Treasury, Morgan is now making a name for herself as a top financial lobbyist.

Many of the transfers overall involve no change in pay, including the $ 150,000 annual salary of senior policy adviser Matt Coleman to serve as a research assistant with the waterways department, and Santino's secretary, Roseanne Scandiffio, who will continue to be paid $ 119,000 as secretary to the town attorney.

It was reported at the time that O'Shaughnessy failed to inform Acoba that he was joining the lobbying company Portland as its chief policy adviser.

Rayhan Haque Policy adviser, CESI (writing in personal capacity) Labour must find its media charm again As pointed out by «Labour's empty space» (TP, June), the Labour Party must not just tackle one factor contributing to their 2010 failure, but focus on an overhaul.

As Graham Ritchie, principal policy adviser for the children's commissioner, told the committee:

Fuleihan, who touted de Blasio's progressive agenda in his introductory remarks, served as the principal fiscal and policy adviser to the Assembly and the majority conference, and as the Assembly's top staff negotiator, according to a biography the de Blasio team distributed.

And Nixon's pledge to refuse corporate donations doesn't actually mean as much in New York as it does on the federal level, because of New York's lax campaign finance laws, said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany.

Tanner joins the agency as its chief policy adviser having resigned as deputy head of the Number 10 policy unit just days after the general election — and hot on the heels of the prime minister's chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

Fletcher favoured Coleman as de facto policy chief, while Milne favoured Andrew Fisher, Corbyn's political adviser.

Owen Smith said: «I'm delighted that Neale Coleman has agreed to come on board as my chief policy adviser.

Rosen also gave the mayor and his city - employed advisers advice on how to handle policy decisions such as pursuing universal pre-K, sent job candidates to City Hall and requested that first lady Chirlane McCray speak at events held by his clients.

Bossert, who was a former deputy national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, had overseen the Trump administration's response to the Hurricane Maria disaster in Puerto Rico, as well as cyber security policy.

De Peyer is a former aide to Vince Cable who was Alexander's top policy adviser throughout his five years as chief secretary to the Treasury.

Smith has also appointed Jo Stevens MP as trade union adviser, responsible for liaison with trade unions and policy development.

She said she would be working in Albany, New York City and Washington, D.C.. Also Tuesday, Mercury announced it hired Alexandra Greene, who most recently served as senior policy adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.