Sentences with phrase «at think tanks»

I had been working at a think tank on matters of small arms and light weapons issues.

Many of the factors that drove foundations to support research at think tanks instead of universities have disappeared.

There is relatively little thinking at think tanks these days.

Actually, there is a remarkable amount of latitude at think tanks for people to say what they really think.

He has previously worked at a think tank and on refugee communications and policy.

Jonathan Simons, head of education at think tank Policy Exchange (pictured), said: «The white paper, as a whole, and the proposed bill, as a whole, is a goner.

George McBride is a partner at Hanway Associates, a London - based cannabis consultancy, and policy director at the think tank Volteface.

Jonathan Simons, head of education at think tank Policy Exchange, said he was struck by the explicit reference to redundancies, but said the pot of cash is «necessary and an important thing to do».

I was a Politics Major and very interested in working at a think tank in Washington D.C. Sophie: I was an associate at a consulting firm in Washington DC.

Susan M. Ochs is a senior fellow at the think tank New America, where she directs the Better Banking Project.

Carl Miller, co-founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos - UK, and Wikimedia UK's Stevie Benton wanted to see whether the mechanisms that govern Wikipedia could be applied to political policy.

Dipayan is a fellow at the think tank New America and he's here with me in the studio in Washington, D.C. Ben is also at New America.

Oliver Ilott, senior researcher at the think tank Institute for government, said the election would clarify the prime minister's mandate, clearly demarking what they can and can not agree, thus limiting their ability to make concessions and strengthening their bargaining power.

The reporter calls new number found via Google, of a scientist with a lot of time and training (at a think tank fighting restrictions on CO2, or at, say, the World Wildlife Fund).

King Coal's reign in India is about to come crashing down, writes Silvio Marcacci, Communications Director at think tank Energy Innovation.

He was thrilled to participate in policy discussions at think tanks, according to former executives, but less interested in digging into the nitty - gritty of a troubled unit.

«We refined the categories and tested them with other professors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, labor leaders, folks at think tanks, and ultimately settled on this list,» adds Brynjolfsson.

«The upgrade of Portugal's credit rating by S&P and Fitch, combined with the already - large reduction in Portugal's budget deficit and its exit from the EU's fiscal watchlist, are reducing Portugal's borrowing costs and interest payments, and this will help it reach its budget target sooner,» Ben Robinson, senior economist at the think tank OMFIF (Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum), told CNBC in an email.

«That was honest - to - God college beer money that I gave up to be associated with Cato, so you know about my commitment to the cause of liberty,» he said during a forum at the think tank last year.

Speaking at an event at think tank Policy Exchange she said: «We can not spend the next 18 months voting down every one of the Tories» EU bills.

Jonty is head of the Progressive Conservatism Project at the think tank Demos.

Speaking at the think tank Demos, the shadow chancellor said the party is committed to the progressive policies of New Labour in a manner which Mr Brown's administration is not.

At a think tank sponsored conference on the state's infrastructure, participants said there are deep needs and they warn lawmakers not to spend the money frivolously.

Prior to joining YouGov in 2016, Matthew was Digital Communications Manager at the think tank Policy Exchange from 2009 - 2016.

Christopher Howarth, is a senior Political Analyst at the think tank Open Europe.

At a think tank meeting about autism several years ago, molecular geneticist Simon Gregory spoke with mainstream and nonconventional doctors about oxytocin, the so - called «love hormone» that some doctors were using to treat symptoms of social disconnection in children with autism.

The report by former World Bank economist David Wheeler, who now leads the climate change division at the think tank Center for Global Development, finds that China spent 94 cents of every $ 10,000 of average income on clean energy between 1990 and 2008.

In simple numerical terms, the competing voices at think tanks and in academic departments are dwarfed by the tens of thousands of faculty in teacher - preparation programs at state colleges of education.

On Thursday, Jeb Bush will give a speech in Washington, D.C. at his think tank's annual conference.

The founder of the grassroots Labour Teachers website John Blake has taken over as education chief at think tank Policy Exchange.

Namely, they would have a big research budget and / or access to professionals at a think tank like the American Institutes of Research to help them sift through all of the relevant research, ideas, promising practices, and vendor pitches.

And most of this small amount for research funding is going to universities, so the ratio of support for research relative to advocacy at think tanks is completely out of whack.

My colleagues Richard V. Reeves, Nathan Joo, and Grover J. «Russ» Whitehurst at the think tank the Brookings Institution compared the racial composition of country's public schools to that of the under - 18 population of those neighborhoods.

With the audience at the think tank — which supports expanding charter schools and teacher merit pay — voting for the winner, Indiana is no William Hung.

Only 47 percent of those surveyed, including current and former U.S. Department of Education leaders, Congressional staffers, state school chiefs and experts at think tanks, expect to see any change to federal law.

Then she moved to Santa Monica where it was always sunny, and worked at a think tank by the sea.

For the past seven years, I was deputy director at a think tank called the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers: I taught philosophy for many years and I am now a resident scholar at a think tank in DC.

The book's title, The Dream Colony: A Life in Art (2017), is borrowed from a phrase Hopps encountered while doing a stint at a think tank and describes the region of the unconscious mind in which artists dwell.

I've been invited to give oral evidence to a UK parliamentary committee — and have been offered a research fellowship at a think tank.

Attend conferences, go to hearings on the Hill, go to talks at think tanks, and do all of the «touristy» stuff.

Then: Bouchey, also known as L Francis Bouchey, was the director of a project known as Citizens for Sound Science and the Environment, based at the think tank Frontiers of Freedom.

James Leaton, research director at think tank Carbon Tracker, which has led the analysis of stranded fossil fuel assets, said: «It is disappointing that Oil and Gas UK seems confused about how to rationalise tackling climate change and developing more oil and gas.

Felix Matthes, responsible for energy at the think tank Öko - Institut, says the law is guided by abstract principles rather than experience, which might «set us up for a less than optimal development in the future.»

She started work at a think tank at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace before moving on to a role at the National Democratic Institute, and then a two - year fellowship at The World Bank.

That's the main takeaway,» says Greg Smith, a senior researcher at the think tank and one of the main authors of the survey.