Sentences with phrase «former chair of the commission»

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Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

Facebook is making Kevin Martin, a former chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), its interim head of U.S. policy.

Waitzer, who is a former chair of the Ontario Securities Commission, says there's no legal reason something like Strike Debt's rolling jubilee can't be done in Canada.

Elizabeth Prodromou, a former Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF, has some harsh words for the commission's annual report, issued lCommission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF, has some harsh words for the commission's annual report, issued lcommission's annual report, issued last month.

Right now at least 800 million people are in the throes of absolute poverty — poverty so severe that the basics of human survival are simply not available to them — according to the Independent Commission on International Development, chaired by former West German chancellor Willy Brandt.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

Among the signatories are Dame Julie Mellor, former Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, as well as some of Britain's top social scientists in this field — Dr Ann Buchanan (Oxford University), Professor Michael Lamb (Cambridge University), Joan Hunt (Oxford University), Professor Judy Dunn (Institute of Psychiatry), Professor Brid Featherstone (Bradford University), Dr Christine Skinner (York University).

The committee, which was formed by the NDC's Functional Executive Committee (NEC), and approved by its Council of Elders, is being chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey

«The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals is appointing a new Chair of the Commission, former Judge Leo Milonas,» Azzopardi said.

Jon Gower Davies, a former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle and a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 20 years, has written a report for the think - tank Civitas, entitled «Small Corroding Words: the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC», which advocates the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, currently chaired by Trevor Phillips, the ex Labour member of the London Assembly.

Brexit has caused a «nervous breakdown» in Whitehall, the former Labour minister Andrew Adonis has said following his resignation as chair of the government - backed National Infrastructure Commission.

He recently described the Electoral Commission Chair Charlotte Osei, as an incompetent Chairperson appointed by the former NDC administration, alleging that the appointment of EC chair was an attempt by the NDC to rig the 2016 general electChair Charlotte Osei, as an incompetent Chairperson appointed by the former NDC administration, alleging that the appointment of EC chair was an attempt by the NDC to rig the 2016 general electchair was an attempt by the NDC to rig the 2016 general elections.

Those arguments are unlikely to stop former Labour Cabinet minister John Hutton, who was appointed on Sunday as the chair of an independent commission on public sector pensions.

Tewolde Gebremeskel, Director of Peace and Security Division - IGAD NDI Election Observation Mission — Dr. Aisha Abdullahi, former AU Commissioner for Political Affairs; Hon. Karen Bass, US Congresswoman; Professor Attahiru Jega, former Chair of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission; Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; and Hon. Christie Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey.

The Labour leader will make former BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons chair of a Rebuilding Britain Commission to identify sites for new towns and garden cities.

David Grandeau is the former head of the State Lobbying Commission, where Bulgaro also served as Chair, and which was merged into the present ethics cCommission, where Bulgaro also served as Chair, and which was merged into the present ethics commissioncommission.

Former Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan has spoken about the 2016 elections for the first time since the exercise was conducted on December 7, 2016.

Of the seven candidates presented to Cuomo by the Commission on Judicial Nomination, chaired by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the only Republican was Graffeo.

Trevor Phillips, former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, speaks about the treatment of the Windrush generation.

Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore, a former chair of the now defunct state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, seen here on May 31, 2012, has been nominated to head the New York State court system.

I have advanced degrees in government and public policy and on - the - ground experience as former deputy town supervisor, chair of the Environmental Commission for six years, commission liaison to the Planning Board for three years and a member of the Zoning Code Review Committee for fCommission for six years, commission liaison to the Planning Board for three years and a member of the Zoning Code Review Committee for fcommission liaison to the Planning Board for three years and a member of the Zoning Code Review Committee for five years.

An elections review committee chaired by Former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission Dr Kwesi Botchwey is leading a team to collate reasons for the first round defeat of the party.

As part of the proposal, Mark - Viverito also announced last week an independent commission chaired by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman would study and come up with proposals to change the city's current criminal justice system from its jails to the court houses.

Former Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan has spoken about the 2016 elections for the...

The search commission to find a list of candidates to replace Ciparik is chaired by former Chief Judge Kaye, who has encouraged non-politically connected but qualified lawyers to apply.

Arms Deal: EFCC Docks Ex-PDP Chair, Haliru Mohammed, Son The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 arraigned a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, and ex-minister of defence, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed and his son, Bello Abba Mohammed, before Justice...

The report was commissioned by the UK Government and produced by a group chaired by former Labour Minister Alan Milburn said that is was «especially concerned» that a smaller proportion of Welsh children who receive free school meals achieve five good GCSEs (26 %) compared to children from similar backgrounds in England (38 %).

While we have criticized some of the specific recommendations of the Governor Cuomo's other tax advisory commission, the Tax Reform and Fairness Commission, chaired by investment banker Peter Solomon and former Comptroller McCall, that Commission's report shows that it is possible to implement tax cuts that make sense from a tax fairness and / or an economic competitiveness perspective without reducincommission, the Tax Reform and Fairness Commission, chaired by investment banker Peter Solomon and former Comptroller McCall, that Commission's report shows that it is possible to implement tax cuts that make sense from a tax fairness and / or an economic competitiveness perspective without reducinCommission, chaired by investment banker Peter Solomon and former Comptroller McCall, that Commission's report shows that it is possible to implement tax cuts that make sense from a tax fairness and / or an economic competitiveness perspective without reducinCommission's report shows that it is possible to implement tax cuts that make sense from a tax fairness and / or an economic competitiveness perspective without reducing revenue.

The latest and important contribution to the debate is, of course, the report by the Commission on Assisted Dying, chaired by the former lord chancellor, Charles Falconer.

Former CEO of the Chamber of Mines, Joyce Aryee, has described as «painful», the insults hurled at the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, by disqualified presidential nominee, Hassan Ayariga, of the All People's Convention (APC).

In a major blow to No 10, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, said that he and all three of his fellow commissioners were walking out — including a leading conservative, Gillian Shephard.

Others raised concerns about the tone of Vote Leave's campaign, with Trevor Phillips, the former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, saying the leave camp's stance on immigration risks fuelling a resurgence of far - right politics.

Although she voted for David Miliband in the leadership election, she is undoubtedly an Ed - loyalist and, as the former chair of the LabOUR Commission on party democracy a few years ago, she has a record of supporting members involvement in policy making.

She is a former chair of the Scottish group of Labour MPs and sat on a commission considering the future of local government for Scotland, where she opposed the introduction of PR for council elections.

The measure means that while the Electoral Commission can now publish information about any donations since July last year — and in the future — it is still banned from sharing key information about donations to Northern Irish parties during a period which included the European referendum, when the DUP received # 435,000 for their Brexit campaign from an unknown source via a secretive group in Glasgow whose chair set up a company in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi intelligence service.

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.

That so many exceptional candidates were motivated to apply demonstrates the remarkable strength and depth of the legal profession in the State of New York,» former chief judge Judith Kaye, the commission's chair, said in a statement.

The breakdown of the former has been addressed extensively by the Social Justice Policy Commission chaired by Iain Duncan Smith, but arguably could be given more prominence in government policy.

Members of the Commission included former Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the former Ofcom Chair Dame Patricia Hodgson, former Liberal Democrat MP Alex Carlile, former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard.

Zahida Manzoor CBE - former Legal Services Ombudsman; former Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality

Calling Straus his political mentor and the «conscience» of the GDC, Kruglinski praised the former Zoning Board of Appeals chair and longtime member of Gardiner's Environmental and Open Space Commissions for his willingness to share his «wide - ranging experience and knowledge.»

Cuomo's 10 - member Moreland Commission is chaired by former state Attorney General Robert Abrams and Benjamin Lawsky, a top Cuomo lieutenant who heads the state Department of Financial Services.

The party in a bid to investigate the cause of the party's historic defeat formed a 13 - member committee chaired by a Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission, Kwesi Botchwey.

... Nobody will want to take risks or do anything bold or out of the box,» says Anil Kakodkar, a nuclear engineer and former chair of India's Atomic Energy Commission.

In its report, World at Risk, released today but in the press since Sunday, the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, chaired by former Senator Bob Graham (D — FL), predicts an attack in the next 5 years if nothing changes.

Signatories of the letter include David King and Robert May, former government chief scientific advisers; Colin Blakemore, a member of the U.K. Drug Policy Commission and former director of the Medical Research Council; and Gabriel Horn, chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Group on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs.

The organization has a fairly small staff and budget, notes Alec Boksenberg, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and former chair of the U.K. National Commission for UNESCO.

The 17 - member commission, chaired by Kleiner and Klaus Toepfer, former head of the United Nations Environment Programme, gave Merkel their report (in German here) yesterday.

Moderated by: Maciej Nalecz, Director, Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building, UNESCO Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Former DG of CERN, former Chair of ITER Project, President of SESAME Council Miklós Réthelyi, President, Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO Zehra Sayers, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Herwig Schopper, Former DG of CERN Vaughan Turekian, Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary ofFormer DG of CERN, former Chair of ITER Project, President of SESAME Council Miklós Réthelyi, President, Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO Zehra Sayers, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Herwig Schopper, Former DG of CERN Vaughan Turekian, Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary offormer Chair of ITER Project, President of SESAME Council Miklós Réthelyi, President, Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO Zehra Sayers, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Herwig Schopper, Former DG of CERN Vaughan Turekian, Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary ofFormer DG of CERN Vaughan Turekian, Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State

Moderated by: Hossam Badrawi, Chairman Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education & Development, former Chairman of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research, Parliament of Egypt Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch, Senior Programme Specialist Natural Sciences, UNESCO Aicha Bammoun, Programme Specialist, Science Directorate, ISESCO Paul Rübig, Chair, European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Liliya Hrynevych, Chairperson, Committee on Science and Education, Parliament of Ukraine Jesus Hurtado, Member of the Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, Congress of the Republic Peru Ninlawan Petcharaburanin, Advisor for the Committee on Science Technology National Assembly, Thailand Rana Dajani, Associate Professor, Hashemite University, Jordan; Visiting Professor, Yale Stem Cell Center and University of Cambridge