Sentences with phrase «chair of the panel on»

WASHINGTON — Outspoken vaccine critic Robert Kennedy Jr. has accepted a position within Donald Trump's administration as chair of a panel on vaccine safety and scientific integrity — the clearest sign yet of the president - elect's suspicions about vaccines.

He currently serves as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, and is chair of the Panel on Earth Science Applications and Societal Needs.

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He chairs the BMO board, holds a handful of other directorships and serves on two economic advisory panels — one for the feds, the other, Queen's Park.

Representative Trey Gowdy, the 49 - year - old from South Carolina chosen by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to chair the panel, is a Christian conservative elected to Congress in 2010 on the wave of the Tea Party movement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane: Chairing panel sessions on Jan. 5 and 6 at the Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting (to Jan. 6).

Since coming to Rotman, Tiff has also been appointed the chair of the board of the Global Risk Institute, chair of Ontario's Panel on Economic Growth and Prosperity, a director of Scotiabank, and a member of the Asian Business Leaders Advisory Board.

At his fifth annual Big Picture Conference in New York, Ritholtz welcomed his new Ritholtz Wealth Management partner, Brown of Reformed Broker blog fame, to moderate a «View from the Chief Strategist's Chair» panel that focused largely on modern - day media's effects on market volatility.

Out of an abundance of charity to Professor Leach, and with all due respect to his unimpeachable contributions as Chair of the Alberta Climate Leadership Panel, his argument may well rest on a more nuanced political assumption: that Alberta's leadership is required to bring the rest of the provinces along.

Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

Chaired by Kristiane Sherry, Editor of The Spirits Magazine, the panel of well respected and knowledgeable judges blind tasted and judged each entry on their own merit.

Ahead of the 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation, organised by DowDuPont, chair of the judging panel David Luttenberger, global packaging director at Mintel Group, shares his perspectives on the renowned competition and on packaging innovation itself with fellow jury member Tim Sykes.

He served as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 to 2015.

During 2014 - 16, he has been an active member of the High Level Committee set up by the government (NDA - II) to restructure the food management system in the country (known as Shanta Kumar Panel); member of the Task Force set up by the Prime Minister under NITI on Agriculture Sector Reforms; and also Chairing a Committee for Agri - Marketing Reforms in the country.

Ahead of DowDuPont's 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation chair of the judging panel David Luttenberger, global packaging director at Mintel, shares his perspectives on the competition and packaging innovation itself with fellow jury member Tim Sykes more

James Piper, Managing Director at Ecosurety, will be chairing the panel debate, which will explore how brands can take on the growing problem created by packaging at the end of life and stay up to date with the fast - moving policy area.

He is a member of British Cycling's regional commission, chair of the technical commission, chair of the sports ethics commission and has also served on British Cycling's appeals panel.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The decision to contract with an exhibitor rests with the TXBC Board Chair and Officers, based on the recommendation of the International Code & Ethics Panel (ICE Panel).

In order to assure a transparent and accountable process for examining and determining the petitions, the EC assembled a Panel of Eminent Ghanaians to chair the two - day public hearing on the issue.

The panel was led by Ashok Gupta, Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and Deputy Chair of the Bank of England Working Group on Procyclicality and Chaired by Stephanie Flanders, former BBC Economics Editor, now Chief Market Strategist for UK and Europe with JP Morgan Asset Management.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has also urged people to observe one meat - free day a week to curb carbon emissions.

All members of the Press are invited to attend the whole Conference which opens on Tuesday morning at Carden Park near Chester and ends on Thursday lunchtime following a Question Time Panel including Sir Ronnie Flanagan, Jane Furniss, Chief Executive of the IPCC, Ken Jones, President of ACPO, Paul McKeever, Chair of the Police Federation, and Association President Ian Johnston.

She caught the public's attention on financial matters even before she held office, as an academic and chair of the oversight panel for the government's bailout of the financial industry.

Joining Parsons on the new task force are several members who also served with him on the earlier panel, including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, State University of New York chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Parent Power Project founder and Rochester - area parent, Carrie Remis and the State Assembly's education committee chair Cathy Nolan, a Queens Democrat.

The governor saying he was glad to clear up «a lot of misinformation», says the Syracuse area DA that co chaired the panel, William Fitzpatrick made all the decisions on probes independently, and Cuomo denied he ended the panel early.

The Speaker appoints a number of Members to the Speaker's panel and the Speaker or Deputy Speaker may call on any one of them to take the Chair as Deputy Speaker.

The Speaker took the Chair and in the division on the motion of dissent the Deputy Speaker voted against the dissent, which was negatived.202 The Speaker ruled that it was in order for the Deputy Speaker to vote in the division.203 On another occasion, having been relieved in the Chair by the Speaker, a member of the Speaker's panel whose ruling had been subject to dissent voted in favour of the dissent.2on the motion of dissent the Deputy Speaker voted against the dissent, which was negatived.202 The Speaker ruled that it was in order for the Deputy Speaker to vote in the division.203 On another occasion, having been relieved in the Chair by the Speaker, a member of the Speaker's panel whose ruling had been subject to dissent voted in favour of the dissent.2On another occasion, having been relieved in the Chair by the Speaker, a member of the Speaker's panel whose ruling had been subject to dissent voted in favour of the dissent.204

Also at 8 a.m., City & State Reports hosts a series of panels on the business role in K - 12 education with former Board of Regents chair Merryl Tisch, Stanley Litow of the IBM International Foundation and others, Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan.

Yet with Wayne David on one of the panels, and Sunder Katwala chairing a panel, I fear this issue will raise its ugly head.

Marcellino on Friday was the announced appointment of Majority Leader John Flanagan to chair the education panel, which will take up a number of high - profile school - related issues in the remaining post-budget legislative session.

4.10 pm Transport Subject: Disabled Access to Transport Witness (es): Sophie Christiansen OBE, Paralympian, British Equestrian Federation, Marije Davidson, Policy and Research Manager, Disability Rights UK and George Fielding, Panel Chair, Whizz Kidz; Niki Glazier, Co-ordinator, Mental Health Action Group, Lucy Hurst - Brown, Chief Executive, Brandon Trust, George McNamara, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Alzheimers Society and Srabani Sen, Chief Executive, Contact - a-Family; Paul Breckell, Chief Executive, Action on Hearing Loss, Peter Rayner, Vice-President, National Pensioners Convention, Tanvi Vyas, Campaigns Officer, Trailblazers and Richard Leaman, Chief Executive, Guide Dogs Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Also on the panel will be the Editor - In - Chief of ELLE UK, Lorraine Candy, the Chair of the Arts Council England, Sir Peter Bazalgette and the author and Fleet Street Fox blogger, Susie Boniface.

Slaughter had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and a number of her colleagues on that committee, both Democrats and Republicans, praised her during a meeting of that panel in Washington earlier this week.

I chaired two fringe meetings for the Parliamentary Labour Party, one of which was called «Winning the next election», with Angela Eagle, Steve McCabe, Jess Phillips and Lucy Powell on the panel.

Earlier this week, I spoke on a panel with Mark Field and Matthew Hancock about the future of the Coalition at a joint Lexington Communications / ConservativeHome event: Esther McVey chaired the proceedings.

Chaired by northern New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of the 21st district, the panel held a hearing Monday on the challenges and opportunities for millennials in the hydropower industry.

These included funding for dinners for the panel of chairs, a group of MPs who help with Bercow's parliamentary duties, # 1,700 on a reception for retiring MPs, # 3,000 on an event for newly elected MPs, and # 2,000 on a «standing down» dinner for Dawn Primarolo, who served as deputy speaker and is now a peer.

Rice, a Democrat who is also president of the state District Attorneys Association, said during a September interview that the three chairs agree on the mission of the panel — to probe the «corrosive» effects of money on the Democratic process.

The former president of the New York City Bar Association, Dunne served in the Manhattan district attorney's office in the mid-1980s and has served on numerous judicial commissions and panels — including chairing former chief judge Judith Kaye's Special Commission on the Future of the New York State Courts — and was counsel to the state Commission on Drugs and Courts.

The panel, chaired by Diaz, heard testimony from Taxi and Limousine Commission boss, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, and a score of livery car service owners, dollar - van operators and drivers on the topic of TLC enforcement.

«It all hinges on whether the money will be there or not,» says Helga Nowotny of the Vienna Science Center, who chairs the European Research Advisory Board, a panel that advises the commission.

During a hearing on «advances in biomedical research», Representative Tom Cole (R — OK), who chairs the House appropriations panel that oversees NIH's budget, said he was «very proud» of a $ 2 billion increase, to $ 34.1 billion, that Congress approved for NIH in 2017.

In February 1998, bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel had to leave President Bill Clinton's bioethics panel on his appointment as chair of the bioethics department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md..

The NRC panel, chaired by neurobiologist Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, looked at more than 500 human, animal, and cellular studies on EMFs and found «no conclusive and consistent evidence... that exposures to residential electric and magnetic fields produce cancer, adverse neurobehavioral effects, or reproductive and developmental effects.

That translates to stabilizing greenhouse gas levels at roughly 450 parts per million (ppm), according to Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The chair of the panel, Chad Holliday, said after the meeting that he leans toward Cole's optimistic assessment of where U.S. research universities stand in the global pecking order but that he also agrees on the need for decisive action.

► On Thursday, new chairs for two House of Representatives spending panels that «hold sway over large chunks of federal research spending» were announced.

Robert Watson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of East Anglia in the United Kindgdom, is being honored for his studies of the ozone hole and work toward an international agreement to ban the use of the chemicals causing ozone depletion; he later chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

«The new guideline uses the highest quality scientific evidence to focus treatment of blood cholesterol on those likely to benefit most,» said Neil J. Stone, MD, Bonow professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chair of the expert panel that wrote the new guideline.

The panel, chaired by physicist Malcolm Beasley of Stanford University in California, places the blame squarely on researcher Hendrik Schön.