Sentences with phrase «chair of the group of»

He is Chair of the Group of 78, and founding Chair of the Coalition for Equitable Land Acquisitions and Development in Africa (CELADA).

«This reassessment narrows the probable range of sea level rise based on the latest science,» said Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and chair of the group of experts that assembled the report.

From 2008 - 2010 he was chair of the group of German fluorine chemists within the GDCh (German Chemical Society).

CNIL, France's data protection authority and the chair of a group of privacy regulators across Europe, said in August that privacy watchdogs will be monitoring the change to WhatsApp's policy «with great vigilance.»

Not exact matches

You know, that game where a group of kids is circling a cluster of chairs, and everyone has to find a seat when the music abruptly stops.

She's a founding member of Cassels» diversity and inclusion committee and chair of the firm's black affinity group; a content director for the diversity and inclusion committee of the American Bar Association; and a member of two committees of the Black Female Lawyers Network.

Today, two of his daughters hold the reins: Naomi Azrieli is chair of CanPro Investments, the family's Montreal real estate development company, as well as CEO of the non-profit Azrieli Foundation; Danna Azrieli is chair of Tel Aviv — based Azrieli Group, which owns, among other things, 15 shopping malls across Israel.

On Feb. 16 the group set up a street - side outpost of folding chairs that they have staffed ever since in rotating shifts, through long nights and torrential rains, trying to draw attention to their cause.

Jeffrey Gandz, who also chaired the group, says, «There were some lively debates as you would expect from a board of directors.

A spokeswoman for Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire chief executive of Blackstone Group LP whom Trump tasked to set up and chair the panel, declined to comment.

He'll chair a hastily arranged meeting of the Group of Seven, pointedly leaving out Russia, which often joins the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan to comprise the Group of Eight.

«Many of these sites appear to have been formed by large credible organizations while others appear to be created by individuals that may be operating out of their basements,» Robert Moilanen, the Minnesota Securities Director and chair of the North American Securities Administrators Association's Internet Fraud Investigations Project Group said in a statement in December.

Judy Wicks, founder of White Dog Enterprises, is chairing the group's national advisory board, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's has agreed to donate $ 150,000 a year for three years to fund an ambitious new slate of projects.

Last December Southern stepped down as chair of ATCO Group, the company he co-founded in 1947.

IKO Group is now run by Israel's grandson, David, who lives in Toronto and also serves as chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

Victor Bostinaru, vice chair of the Social Democratic group in the European Parliament and Romanian MEP, said on Thursday he had evidence that the Russians had interfered in the Catalan crisis, as reported by the Daily Telegraph.

«This acquisition will allow Desjardins to develop a broader, multi-channel distribution network across the country, while continuing to meet the needs of State Farm's Canadian client base,» said Monique Leroux, Desjardins Group's president, CEO and chair of the board.

A quick straw poll of the group of angel investors with the Willamette Angel Conference (for which I am investment chair) revealed that most of us do indeed read the plans.

She was elected by ANSI to serve as chair and head of the U.S. delegation for the ISO Technical Advisory Group developing healthcare management standards.

As deputy chair of TD Bank Group and chair of Brookfield Asset Management, he sits at the table with Canada's blue - chip elite.

But there was widespread agreement among the working group's on - the - ground experts — including Panjabi; Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, the former Nigerian finance minister who now chairs Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Helle Thorning - Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International; and Andrew Youn of the One Acre Fund — that only a more comprehensive health strategy would make any real dent in childhood mortality.

«We have now clear information that the vaccine needs to be dealt with in a much safer way by using it exclusively in people already infected with dengue before,» Alejandro Cravioto, Chair of the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, told reporters.

The octogenarian titan of workplace furniture — who continues to chair the board of Global Group, the company he founded in 1966 — has seen a lot of trends come and go, which makes for robust demand.

«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

A former marketer of health - care products chairs the group, which includes a veteran market researcher and four customers from key distribution channels.

During one recent needs assessment, an opinionated group of facilities managers persuaded the company to change the design of a forthcoming line of chairs to make them easier to stack and nest, for the sake of better storage and movement.

«We only want warm referrals, and if you don't have one, get one,» says attorney Ed Zimmerman, chair of the tech group at Lowenstein Sandler in New York City and founder of the accelerator FirstGrowthVC, which doesn't take equity or provide co-working space.

Tom Angell, the chair of pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority, says this newest poll goes to show that cannabis reform is a mainstream issue that is supported by most Americans.

«A lot of CEOs I come across are very driven and firm, and Christine is all of that, but she has this incredibly compassionate side too,» says Sue Matheson, who chairs the B.C. chapter of MacKay CEO Forums, where Day rubs shoulders with an otherwise all - male group of captains of industry.

The accolades have not stopped flowing since Monique Leroux was elected chair, president and CEO of Desjardins Group in 2008.

Tom Angell, the chair of pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority, says marijuana is a mainstream, bi-partisan issue but will not swing the election.

(Saguil is also chair of the Law Society's equity advisory group and contributed to the recent landmark report on racism in the legal profession.)

People will have a little more freedom to say, share an e-book with a friend, as regulators focus more on halting piracy, said Laurence Pulgram, chair of the copyright litigation group with Fenwick & West in San Francisco.

Subscription - based models a la Netflix or Rdio — where users pay a regular fee for access to the service's library without owning the movies or music — will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.

will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.

Ayah Bdeir, Founder / CEO, Little Bits Piraye Beim, Founder / CEO, Celmatix Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners John Borthwick, Founder / CEO, Betaworks Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni Stacy Brown - Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures Stewart Butterfield, Co - Founder / CEO, Slack Troy Carter, Founder / CEO, Atom Factory Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder / CEO, Joyus Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Amy Chang, Founder / CEO, Accompany Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub Stephen DeBerry, Founder / Managing Partner, Bronze Investments Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor Amy Errett, Founder / CEO, Madison Reed Caterina Fake, Founder / CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr Christopher Farmer, Founder / CEO, SignalFire Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateX Hajj Flemings, Founder / CEO, Brand Camp University Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers David Grain, Founder / Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC Brad Hargreaves, Founder / CEO, Common Donna Harris, Co - Founder / Co-CEO, 1776 Scott Heiferman, Co - Founder / CEO, Meetup David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies Sami Inkinen, Founder / CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman / CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc Leila Janah, Founder / CEO, Sama & Laxmi Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT David Karp, Founder / CEO, Tumblr Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners Kim Keenan, President / CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co - Founder / President, Color Genomics Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Aileen Lee, Founder / Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital Aaron Levie, Co - Founder / CEO, Box John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc..

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

Elise is now an independent director serving as Chair of EasyPark, Parking Corporation of Vancouver; and as a director of Enmax Corporation, an Albertan power utility, Great Panther Silver, an international mining company and Westland Insurance Group, an insurance brokerage with a property and casualty insurance subsidiary.

Uber is expanding its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) with a new office in Toronto, headed by local AI researcher Raquel Urtasun, a University of Toronto professor and the Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

Any person who wishes to communicate with any of our directors, our committee Chairs, our Presiding Director, or with our independent directors as a group, may mail correspondence to John F. W. Rogers, Secretary to the Board of Directors, at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 200 West Street, New York, New York 1group, may mail correspondence to John F. W. Rogers, Secretary to the Board of Directors, at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 200 West Street, New York, New York 1Group, Inc., 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282.

After decades of M&A advisory experience, first with Bain & Co., then as founder, chair and managing partner of the Parthenon Group, plus a distinguished director career, Bill Achtmeyer has an acute, board's - eye view of M&A.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Reacting to the Cambridge Analytica scandal last month, Andrea Jelinek, chair of the European Union's influential data protection body, the Article 29 Working Party — which is made up of reps of all the national DPAs — said the group would be supporting the ICO's investigation.

Previous to his role at TD Bank, he served as Vice Chair and Chief Risk Officer of TD Bank Group, a position he held from May 2003.

The Vancouver Board of Trade celebrated its centennial by establishing its Council of Governors, a prestigious group comprised of those who had previously served as Chair.

Stephen Schwarzman, the founder of Blackstone who chaired one of the groups - the Strategy & Policy Forum - crafted a statement saying the group would be disbanded.

Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, chair of Mr. Trump's strategic and policy council, met with Mr. Trudeau's cabinet in Calgary on Monday and told reporters that U.S. - Canada trade is roughly in balance, so Canadians should not worry.

David is coordinator of ICCR «s Bangladesh Investor Initiative, a global collaboration in support of the Accord for Fire and Building Safety; member, Steering Committee of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment; member, Advisory Group of the newly formed Responsible Labor Initiative of the Responsible Business Alliance and former chair, Advisory Board, Global Social Compliance Program.

Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin will chair the Group of 20 (G20)-- a new organization of industrial and emerging nations that will work to improve the world financial system.