Sentences with phrase «former finance minister»

More conservative critics have likened him to Yanis Varoufakis, the motorbike - riding, confrontational former Finance minister of Greece.

The payment of this amount was said to have been authenticated by former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala.

With the Liberals now in power — and with heavyweights like former Finance Minister Joe Oliver defeated in the recent election — Kenney will take a prominent spot the opposition bench.

Members include: Â Scott Brison (former Bay Street investment banker), Chrystia Freeland (Thomson Reuters business journalist), John McCallum (former bank chief economist), Ralph Goodale (former finance minister under Paul Martin), Kevin Millligan (UBC prof and CD Howe fellow), Barbara Stymiest (former TSX Group CEO) and Frank McKenna (former NB premier and recently chair of the TD Financial Group).

Prime minister faces tough task to keep his Syriza party united, as former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis likens bailout proposal to 1919 Versailles treaty

Former finance minister Jim Flaherty died today, shocking and saddening his family, friends and colleagues past and present.

(From L to R) MD of Stanbic Bank, Alhassan Andani, former Finance Minister Seth Terkper, Editor and Acting MD of Graphic Communications Group, Ransford Tetteh.

The biennale's closing keynote speech came from Greece's charismatic former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.

One of Ms. Redford's opponents, former Finance Minister Ted Morton was elected as a Senator - in - Waiting in 1998 and gave up the position - in - waiting when he ran in the 2004 provincial election in the Foothills - Rockyview constituency.

Nigeria's former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala wants people to speak out about corruption.

He has argue that the Senior Minister role which will be occupied by former Finance Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo if approved by parliament is alien to the constitution.

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

Hartley Richardson, left, with former finance minister, the late Jim Flaherty, in 2010 (Canadian International Council)

Hollande's Socialist Party has yet to choose a candidate, while former finance minister Emmanuel Macron has formed his own party, En Marche!

All three parties in the governing coalition have said they are in favor of investigating former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, the main architect of Greece's first austerity...

The politicians to be investigated include current central bank governor and former finance minister Yannis Stournaras and Dimitris Avramopoulos, a European commissioner and former health minister.

The constituency was formerly represented by former Finance Minister Doug Horner, who resigned as MLA on Jan. 31, 2015.

Former Premier Ed Stelmach, former Finance Minister Shirley McClellan, former Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, and former provincial Liberal leader Kevin Taft tackled the tax dilemma facing Alberta's finances last weekend at the University of Alberta.

Host Larysa Harapyn asks former finance minister Joe Oliver, and Bill Robson, CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, how Canada can retain its competitive advantage in the face of lower U.S. taxes and delays to key projects.

South Africa's rating cut after Gordhan ousted Credit rating agencies Standard and Poor's and Fitch each downgraded South Africa's sovereign credit rating one notch to BB + in the wake of the sacking of former finance minister Pravin Gordhan.

Ghana's former finance minister Dr Kwabena Duffuor has hailed the Ghana Football Association (GFA) for establishing an endowment fund to cater for...

The Wa Central MP said the late President Mills tasked former Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffour, to work with him to secure the funding for the Wa Water Project.

The National Industrial Court (NIC) has ordered the immediate reinstatement of former Spokesperson of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Yushau A. Shuaib, back into the public service after been forceful retired In 2013 over an article he wrote on former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala.

Participants and major contributors at the forum constituted former finance ministers, former governors of the Bank of Ghana, eminent economists, political parties and parliamentarians.

A 13 - member committee headed by former Finance Minister Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, tasked with finding out the cause of NDC's poor showing in the last election, has presented its report, but party leaders are holding details of the findings to their chest.

And to cap it off, the DUP is also home to a number of climate change deniers such as veteran former finance minister Sammy Wilson, who has said that spending billions on trying to reduce carbon emissions is a con.

A Zimbabwean court has postponed to Thursday the bail hearing of former finance minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing charges of corruption dating back two decades.

As Former Finance Minister Michael Wilson controversially quipped in a speech to the Canadian Economics Association in 1985, after introducing the capital gains exemption and a number of other significant tax rate reforms, «Canada has an acute shortage of rich people.»

Originally commissioned by the extravagant former finance minister and brother of the sultan, Prince Jefri, as lodging for his guests, this opulent and fanciful establishment was transformed into an upscale resort to recover some of its cost.

Mr. Daboub, a conservative former finance minister from El Salvador, was brought into the bank by Mr. Wolfowitz.

Unfortunately, former Finance Minister Jim Flaherty gave his life to that goal.

Former Finance Minister Ted Morton is moving into the Energy Minister's office, an area where he will be comfortable defending the province's record on oil sands development.

The members of the campaign team that accompanied the flagbearer are former Trade Minister, Alan Kojo kyeremanten, former Finance Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo and Women's Organiser Otiko Afisa Djaba among others.

Former finance minister Joe Oliver also seems ready to cash out of the Toronto market, putting his home of 30 years up for sale for $ 4.5 million in late May, according to the magazine.

Wilkinson refused to ask Mike de Jong to exercise his authority as former Finance Minister to waive cabinet privilege so the public could read the report.

Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and author of «Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment,» explains that Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister may be a likely scenario and that this would be beneficial for the UK economy.

The New Patriotic Party's (NPP) presidential candidate was accompanied by former Finance Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo who urged the electorate to disregard the propaganda talk of the NDC and president Mahama.

Joe Oliver, the former finance minister who oversaw Canada's plunge into recession last year, is a mere citizen of Ontario now.

Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister, launched a new party on Monday promising to free his country from debt bondage.

AEP has heard rumours that Yannis Stournaras, the current Bank of Greece governor and former finance minister, is set to head up a technocratic government if Mr Tsipras resigns tonight.

Juan Alberto Fuentes, a former finance minister who is currently chairman of Oxfam International, was also among those arrested, prosecutors said.

Oliver's personality also contrasts with Jim Flaherty, with a slightly more combative reputation than the former finance minister.

The former finance minister made clear, particularly near the end of his time in parliament, that a national Canadian securities regulator is badly needed to combat financial crimes.

Former Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and a former finance minister who is now chairman of Oxfam International were arrested on Tuesday as part of a local corruption investigation, the public prosecutor's office said.

Ralph Goodale, a Liberal MP and former finance minister, accused the Tories of putting «all of their eggs in one particular basket» — the energy sector.

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Hundreds gathered to pay their respects to the former finance minister a day before his state funeral

Natalie Jaresko, Chairperson, Aspen institute Kyiv; former Finance Minister, Ukraine Interviewer: Nina Easton, Fortune