Sentences with phrase «as policy director»

Michael has a strong strategic policy background, with extensive experience in strategic social policy development and implementation, most recently in Canberra and previously as a policy director of the Western Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet from 2001 until 2008.

But it looks like the Soil Association is not advocating business as usual in any shape or form, as Policy Director Peter Melchett explains — organic farming needs to be considered as part of a wider rethink of our destructive food systems:

Jaime also worked in Arizona as a Policy Director with Border Action Network, a human rights organization that works with border and immigrant communities across the state.

But there was a consensus that Booker was integral in the selection of Cami Anderson as Christie's choice for superintendent, going to bat for her in the selection process after she had worked with him as a policy director in one of his mayoral campaigns.

Edgar also worked as the policy director for Californians for Justice where he partnered with organizations like California Teachers Association, Ed - Trust West, and the American Civil Liberties Union to make state Local Control Funding Formula regulations more inclusive of the community.

Prior to this work, she served as the Policy Director at the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and the Director of Policy and Advocacy at New Schools for New Orleans.

Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policy.

As policy director and then as vice president for program and policy, Ross managed the Education Trust's research / data analysis, policy development, and technical assistance to educators and policymakers in both K - 12 and higher education.

Stefanik worked with Ryan when she served as Policy Director for 2012 GOP National Convention Platform; he was the party's vice presidential candidate.

As our Policy Director, Patti Rundall, sometimes says, «We haven't got time to swing a cat in this office».

Prior to joining OMRI, she served as the Policy Director for Pennsylvania Certified Organic (PCO), a USDA - accredited certification agency.

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That's a term E.J. Reedy, the foundation's director of research and policy, uses to describe people who set out as their product's first customers, motivated to develop solutions to personal or professional dilemmas they are facing.

Other analysts, such as Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, an economic policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by thPolicy, an economic policy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by thpolicy think tank, say both reclassification under Title II and regulating under section 706 represent overreach by the FCC.

«When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach,» says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports.

Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council director, discusses the Trump administration's trade policies as a delegation gets set to go to China to discuss bilateral trade.

Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

Edgar also serves as the academic director for law and policy in Brown University's Executive Master in Cybersecurity program and a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

He founded his company Weedmaps, a sort of Yelp for marijuana dispensaries, in 2008, and now serves on the board of directors for the National Cannabis Industry Association, the Marijuana Policy Project and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which most people know as NORML and for which he also serves as treasurer.

'' [Silicon Valley] runs the risk of being perceived as arrogant and entitled and super-wealthy and narrowly satisfying its own interests,» says Dan Siciliano, a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center, and executive director at the Program in Law, Economics, and Business at Stanford Law School.

It can result in unintended consequences, such as the possible stigmatization of female directors whom the policy is designed to promote.

Martin Moen, the director general at Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would be «very difficult to see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.

The decision comes as policy makers including IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warn of a global trade conflict that could undermine the broadest world recovery in years.

«Extending the Choice Program is the right thing to do, but only as a stopgap measure until better solutions are developed and implemented,» said Dan Caldwell, policy director at CVA.

Knight, a former Hill staffer who worked on the Bush administration's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, was promoted from her position as special assistant for tax and retirement policy to deputy director for policy in February, and was recently praised by the council's new head, Larry Kudlow.

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.

«As a result [of the technical issue], certain posts with content that violated our policies were made visible to people visiting Marketplace,» Mary Ku, Facebook's director of product management, said in a prepared statement.

«Their driver monitor system isn't as good as some other systems in terms of assuring that someone is paying attention,» said David Friedman, Director of Cars and Product Policy and Analysis for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.

«We'll be grateful for whatever gets accomplished this year, but as for the big picture...» said Dale Moore, executive director public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation.

«As you consider the Administration's proposal, I ask that you consider policies that will bridge the partisan divide and serve the myriad needs of communities across the country — including those of Nevada,» Sen. Catherine Cortez - Masto of Nevada wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council.

«Even if you think Cohn was misguided or mistaken on policy issues, everything he did as Director of the National Economic Council he did for the right reasons,» Cramer said.

Don Morse, director of the Oregon Cannabis Business Council, said he expects «business as usual» in Oregon's marijuana industry despite Sessions» policy.

«As of now, according to our rules, they shouldn't be operating at the airport, «California Public Utilities Commission Director of Policy and Planning Marzia Zafar said.

James Blumstein, a professor of law and the director of the Vanderbilt Health Policy Center, explains that if Brown had standing when she filed suit — originally — that's what matters most, since the NFIB, which is an institutional litigant, has members who are in similar circumstances as Brown.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

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Trump's White House has also lost the deputy directors of the National Security Council and the Domestic Policy Council, as well as multiple deputy chiefs of staff.

In 2006 — 2007, he served as acting political director and head of the security and defense policy division at the Slovak Ministry of Defense.

Prior to that, she served as Chief Deputy Director for Policy at the California Department of Finance.

As a Director of Economic and Energy Affairs for an Abu Dhabi based Authority, Abdulla leads a team that conducts targeted research and provides strategic economic policy advice to the senior leadership of two distinctive authoritative bodies within the capital.

June 13, 2016 - CCGG Executive Director Stephen Erlichman was quoted in the National Post with regard to various REITs providing more rights to unitholders, as recommended in CCGG's policy on the Governance of Canadian REITs and Other Public Income Trusts.

In addition, pursuant to our outside director equity compensation policy, in the event of the termination of a non-employee director's service to the Board as a result of death, disability or retirement, all of the non-employee director's equity compensation awards will become fully vested, provided that the non-employee director served as a member of the Board for at least three years prior to the date of termination and the non-employee director satisfied our equity ownership guidelines during his or her service as a Board member.

As The Globe reported: Jack Mintz, director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, said the unique tax status of U.S. companies -LSB-...]

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

«PIAC is calling on policy makers to define «loyalty currency» as a form of non-cash payment, with the intention of having loyalty currency enjoy protections similar to other forms of payment under the payments system in Canada» added John Lawford, Executive Director of PIAC.

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

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.

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde urged policy makers to work more closely together as they plan eventual exits from unconventional monetary policies, endorsing swap arrangements between central banks as an instrument to weather instability.

As HSUS Texas senior state director Katie Jarl, Florida state director Kate MacFall and director of shelter outreach and policy engagement Kim Alboum organized the transports, Animal Rescue Team members, coordinated by senior director Sára Varsa, searched for missing pets and animals in need of rescue.