Sentences with phrase «been a special adviser»

The senators said that despite the administration downplaying his role, Icahn has disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that he was a special adviser, meaning it is important to shareholders of the companies in which he holds stakes in.

When Trump announced in December that Icahn would be a special adviser, Trump made clear he would «not be serving as a federal employee or a Special Government Employee and will not have any specific duties.»

Your reviewer has known the author for twenty years as a Parliamentary colleague and observed his formidable reputation when both were special advisers in the Thatcher government.

The governor has recruited former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to be a special adviser to establish the nation's first college dedicated to homeland security.

Before that he was a special adviser in the Department for Transport and then in the Department for Health.

He was special adviser on European Affairs to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair (1997 — 2004) and chaired the Government's New Industry, New Jobs Advisory Panel in BIS (2009 - 2010).

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

In one sense, Livermore was a surprising appointment: he had been a special adviser to Brown from 1997 to 2008, and was seen as closely associated with New Labour, from which Miliband had tried to distance himself.

Cameron, too, had never held a Cabinet position before becoming Prime Minister, although he had been a special adviser to Norman Lamont while he had been Chancellor.

He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

Valery Galasso was a special adviser for cabinet nominations for Clinton's 2016 transition team.

Wild is a former public affairs manager at T - Mobile and account director at Hanover Communications, who went on to be a special adviser to defence secretary Michael Fallon.

«There always have been special advisers of course,» Lynn notes.

The Donaldson brothers and DUP MPs Ian Paisley Junior and Emma Little Pengelly, who was a special adviser to the DUP's then - first minister Peter Robinson, set up another company to give peace - building advice to overseas governments and organisations.

Sean Worth was a special adviser to the prime minister in Downing Street before the last election.

The latest raid comes after work and pension secretary David Gauke recently snared Portland partner Idil Oyman to be his special adviser.

Cameron was a special adviser to Lord Lamont during his time in the Treasury, including on Black Wednesday in 1992 when the Tory government had to take the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

According to their biographies, Mr Brown is a special adviser to Jeremy Corbyn, while Comrade Gintz is a BBC cameraman...

The Welsh Government says it doesn't recognise the comments made by Steve Jones who was special adviser to the First Minister from 2009 to 2014.

«He was obsessed with News International, completely obsessed,» said Patrick Loughran, a former Downing Street aide who was special adviser to Lord Mandelson.

«Owen Smith is a great bloke and so on, but I don't believe that someone whose history is having been a special adviser and a pharmaceutical company lobbyist is going to enthuse the base.»

I don't believe that someone whose history is having been a special adviser and a pharmaceutical company lobbyist is going to enthuse the base,» she said.

[2] He was special adviser to Jim Murphy MP, the Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 until 2010.

More recently he was a special adviser to Nicky Morgan during her time as education secretary and is said to have been a Remain voter.

«It says something about the Labour gene pool that all the serious candidates for the leadership are white Oxbridge - educated men in their forties who were special advisers in 1997.

Bridget Harris, who was a special adviser to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg until recently, alleged Lord Rennard touched her leg repeatedly at a conference in 2003.

Helping him in his quest was Horner, who left NYPIRG to be a special adviser in the Attorney General's office.

Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters of New York State, who was a special adviser to the anti-corruption Moreland Commission, told the New York Times she hopes Silver's arrest will change Albany for good.

He was a special adviser to Roy Jenkins at the Home Office in the 1970s, and moved with Jenkins from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981.

I was a special adviser with him many years ago.

Mr Hague entered Parliament in 1989 having been special adviser to Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe.

Meanwhile, Mr Livingstone came to the defence of Diane Abbott, the Shadow International Development Secretary who irked Mr Reynolds when she claimed wrongly on Newsnight that he had been a special adviser.

Before becoming an MP in 2001, he was a special adviser in the agriculture department when the Tories were in government and later served as political secretary to William Hague.

Q: You are the first ERC president to work from ERC's Executive Agency in Brussels; your job will include the responsibilities of ERC's secretary - general, Donald Dingwell, who's stepping down; you will also be a special adviser to the European Commission.

Ingrid Elfver is a special adviser to Literary Agent Undercover, consulting with high profile clients about branding, mindset, and marketing.

Mark often travels with his wife Ingrid Elfver who is a special adviser to Literary Agent Undercover and consults some of Mark's high profile clients.

Mr. Stern said that was borne out by a study of global attitudes on climate change to be released Wednesday by the bank HSBC, where Mr. Stern is a special adviser on economic development and climate change.

Served as chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services (2014 - 2016) and is special adviser to the ABA Center for Innovation.

Susskind, in addition to being a law school professor, is a special adviser to the Canadian Bar Association, and an independent adviser to law firms, governments, and judiciaries around the world.

Not exact matches

Morgan Stanley, Allen & Co, and LionTree were retained as advisers by the special committee of its board, Viacom said.

The Bahamian - American physician and special adviser to the Carter Center is one of the key individuals responsible for the eradication of smallpox — a truly terrifying disease that in the 20th century alone killed as many as 300 million people.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is reportedly concerned that his son, Michael Flynn Jr., could get wrapped up in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Doug New is a partner at Fasken Martineau but earlier in his career served as a special adviser to the deputy commissioner of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.

Trump is set to meet Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy special adviser under Obama who helped shape the Affordable Care Acton, at the White House on Monday, along with Ryan and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

«The American strike on Shayrat air base in Syria is an appropriate response to [Assad's] mass homicide,» said Fred Hof, the director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former US special adviser on Syria.

But Fred Hof, the State Department's former special adviser for transition in Syria, said there was a difference between the warnings issued to Assad nearly five years apart by Obama and Trump.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December to lying to federal agents and is providing cooperation to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and whether the Trump campaign was involved.