Sentences with phrase «former envoy»

And yet, Quellcrist remains a guiding light and a safe memory for Altered Carbon's protagonist, Takeshi Kovacs (played by Joel Kinnaman) a former Envoy, and the last of his kind.

One Tory backbench MP, the PM's former envoy to Syria Brooks Newmark, wrote for the Huffington Post that he felt «wracked and ashamed» by the result.

The former envoy, who promised that he will clinch the party's ticket in spite of Governor Ayodele Fayose's adoption of his deputy, Prof Kola Olusola, as preferred candidate, added that Atiku's defection will impact on the PDP positively.

Three former Envoy executives — Zhang, Shuler, and Envoy's former head of sales Jason Bartlett — will be moving on to head up growth at JoyRun.

The former envoy praised the Republican president's chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt for meeting a cross-section of Israelis and Palestinians during a visit last week that has led to U.S. - Israeli discussions on limiting settlement building.

Not exact matches

(Lewis, in addition to being a former diplomat and a UN special envoy, is also a former parliamentarian, so he seemed a good person to ask.)

Take for example Linda Sobeh Ali, the former Palestinian envoy to Canada, who was relieved of her duties after retweeting a link to a YouTube video that was racially offensive.

Among those who joined us in London: Jane Griffiths, Company Group Chairman, Janssen EMEA; Neelie Kroes, Special Envoy, Startup Delta, The Netherlands; Former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda; Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates; Emma Marcegaglia, President, BusinessEurope; Chairman, Eni SpA; Vice Chairman and CEO, Marcegaglia Group; Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President EMEA, Facebook; Nicky Morgan, MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, Department for Education, U.K.; Lubna Olayan, Chief Executive Officer, Olayan Financing Company; Mary Portas, Founder, Portas; Author, Shop Girl; and Helle Thorning - Schmidt, Former Prime Minister, Denmark and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International.

The team includes Mark McLarty, president of Kissinger McLarty Associates and former chief of staff and special envoy to the Americas for President Bill Clinton.

The provincial government also employs former cabinet minister Gary Mar as a permanent envoy in the American capital and frequently sends cabinet ministers and MLAs to conferences and trade meetings in the United States.

Alwi Shihab, former lecturer at Harvard, former foreign minister, and now the Indonesian president's special envoy to the Middle East and to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who now works as a U.N. special envoy on global education, said, «Nobody will believe a word the Taliban say about the right of girls like Malala to go to school until they stop burning down schools and stop massacring pupils»...

Prime minister Gordon brown announced the envoy - former defence minister Des Browne - during his drilling by the liaison committee yesterday, earning praise from prominent Labour MP Keith Vaz but instant condemnations from Sri Lanka itself.

The most restless of former prime ministers has been Tony Blair, but he has been restricted to various envoy roles so far.

Former prime minister Tony Blair spent yesterday evening accepting a $ 1 million prize for his work as a Middle East envoy.

Geoffrey Pattie, a former parliamentary under - secretary of state for defence procurement and director of Marconi Defence Systems, used to be on the board, and Lord Marland, David Cameron's pro-Brexit former trade envoy, a shareholder.

Former Nigeria's envoy to Canada, Amb Dare Bejide, has said the defection of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was a sign that President Muhammadu Buhari has disappointed NigeFormer Nigeria's envoy to Canada, Amb Dare Bejide, has said the defection of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was a sign that President Muhammadu Buhari has disappointed Nigeformer Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was a sign that President Muhammadu Buhari has disappointed Nigerians.

The former prime minister has not been inactive since he left Downing Street in 2007, working most prominently as a Middle East peace envoy.

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

«The Acting President also extols the readiness of the former Head of State in accepting to serve as United Nations and African Union's envoy promoting peace and good governance in Africa.

Michael Wolff claimed the former Labour leader was «sucking up» to Jared Kushner and angling for a job as Middle East envoy.

In other political news, sources confirmed former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to stand down from his role as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU.

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D - Maine) spoke to aspiring litigators at the Albany Law School this month where he discussed his time on Capitol Hill and his role serving the country as special envoy overseas.

«A remarkable thing has happened at the World Bank over the past 15 years,» World Resources Institute President and former World Bank climate envoy Andrew Steer said recently.

President Barack Obama appointed Schaal to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 2009 and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appointed her as one of three new science envoys in 2012 to advise the White House, the Department of State and the U.S. scientific community about insights gained from travels and interactions abroad.

Peter Ogden, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Before the summit, Secretary - General Ban inaugurated Gujarat's first 10 MW solar power plant and announced he would be sending former New York Mayor and now U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change Michael Bloomberg to a major renewable energy summit in New Delhi next month.

Zaelke credited Obama and his team — including Kerry, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and former Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern — with working to till the ground for an HFC amendment even as they worked toward other objectives, like the Paris deal.

07, co-founder at Envoys and former vice minister at the Colombian Ministry of National Education, «The big changes that have transformed education happened with a small team.»

The lawyer representing Brown's suit in New York pro bono is Jay Lefkowitz, a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis who previously worked as former President George W. Bush's deputy assistant for domestic policy and special envoy for human rights in North Korea.

Former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, now a United Nations climate envoy, has laid out a wise path for President Obama that could sidestep the political morass surrounding Canada's oil - rich Alberta tar (sands) pits and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Thursday, November 16th 12:00 - 13:00 Fiji Dome A conversation with Todd Stern, former Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Obama Administration and Sue Biniaz, the former principal legal advisor on the climate negotiations for the United States, who will discuss the future of the Paris Agreement.

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales — Keynote Video Message Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE — UN Messenger of Peace The Hon. Mary Robinson — Former President of Ireland The Hon. Lisa Jackson — Administrator, U.S. EPA Julia Marton - LeFèvre — Director General, IUCN Ambassador Donald Steinberg — Deputy Administrator, USAID Muhtar Kent — Coca Cola CEO (Video Address) Paul Polman — CEO, Unilever and Co-Chair, Consumer Goods Forum The Hon. Bård Vegar Solhjell — Minister of the Environment, Norway Jonathan Pershing — Deputy Special Envoy - Climate Change, U.S. State Dept. Dr. Zhang Songdan — Deputy Dir.

'' is a separate initiative spearheaded by Former New York Mayor and UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown, working in parallel with We Are Still In to compile and tally the climate actions of states, cities, colleges, businesses, and other local actors across the entire U.S. economy.

Yesterday, Secretary of State and former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson indicated that this process will not happen through the State Department's Special Envoy for Climate Change, because, well, he's scrapping the position.

about Despite Trump Plan to Ditch Paris Accord, Former US Climate Envoy Thinks America Will Be Back

BONN, GERMANY — Even if Donald Trump successfully withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate accord in the next three years, Todd Stern, former climate envoy under Obama, doesn't think the country will be gone from the agreement for good.

After lengthy deliberations, the Board appointed former Australian Climate Envoy and Head of the Global Green Growth Initiative Howard Bamsey as the new executive director of the GCF Secretariat.

UN envoy and former New York mayor named as chair of initiative for Financial Stability Board, at COP21 in Paris

(Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, and the UN's special envoy for cities and climate change.)

Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius

Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius scenario on their business, strategy and financial planning.

``... [The] Report was introduced by Commission Co-Chair Ricardo Lagos, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary - General on Climate Change and former President of Chile.