Sentences with phrase «former head of the commission»

They pointed to the 2008 statement by Lord Ouseley, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, that the Solicitors Regulation Authority was institutionally racist and had discriminated against Black and Asian solicitors.

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Former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Allan Fels will lead an independent panel to receive and review claims involving underpaid staff by franchisees of 7 - Eleven.

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

But the crime also raises questions about why the companies have so far kept silent and whether — as a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission observes — it triggers an obligation to tell investors about what happened.

In 1988, along with Bob Steel and some other future Goldman leaders — former co-presidents John Thornton and John Thain, billionaire investor J. Christopher Flowers, hedge - fund manager Frank Brosens, and Gary Gensler, now head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Blankfein was one of thirty - six men (not a single woman) named general partners.

The chief executive of MasterCard Inc., the former head of the National Security Agency and officials from Microsoft and Uber will join a commission to strengthen U.S. cyber defenses, the White House said on Wednesday.

The Commission comprises former heads of state, finance ministers and leaders in the field of economics and business.

The list includes a former Stanford dean who is an accounting professor, the former CEO of an insurance company, the former CEO of an international bank, a hedge fund manager, a prominent Asian financier, and an economist who is the former head of the U.S. government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

In a sign of Mr. Trump's rightward tilt [on financial regulation], former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins is heading up the president - elect's transition team's work concerning the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other financial regulators that historically operate independently of the White House...

Nonetheless, at MIT Technology Review's Business of Blockchain event last week, Gary Gensler, former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, argued in the affirmative.

Altcoins Ripple XRP and Ethereum are likely «non-compliant securities» under U.S. federal law, according to Gary Gensler, former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Jorge Amselle of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a Washington think tank headed by Linda Chavez, the former director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, says, «You don't cure the problem of people treating each other differently because of race by having government treat people differently because of race.

«This is the beginning of a very, very powerful and important discussion in America on the role of food,» said Robert Egger, president of the D.C. Central Kitchen and former head of the Mayor's Commission on Nutrition.

Cuomo earlier this year announced the formation of a new tax commission headed by former Gov. George Pataki and ex-Comptroller Carl McCall to review where cuts could be made.

Mrs. Osei who was the former head of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) was appointed by President Mahama as EC boss in June last year to replace Afari Gyan who retired after 22 years as EC head.

In March 2016, Ella Pamfilova, a former human rights commissioner as well as a former Duma deputy and presidential candidate, replaced the deeply unpopular head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov.

Recent revelations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which have trappings on alleged illegal transaction between former Minister of Petroleum resources, Dieziani Alison - Madueke and Fidelity Bank Managing Director, Nnamdi Okonkwo may have snowballed into indicting the head honcho of other financial institutions.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide — Percoco, now on trial for bribery — broke the state's public officers law.

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.

A top - level commission headed by the former president of the University at Buffalo embraced the concept of regionalism, while other proposals centered on combining police services or water systems.

«The former solicitor general and current interim attorney general is a Cuomo appointee, the inspector general is a Cuomo appointee, the head of (the Joint Commission on Public Ethics) is a Cuomo appointee and every other constitutional branch of government outside of the U.S. attorney has shrunk from their responsibility under the weight of Cuomo coercion.

Former head of the Political Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has described as «irresponsible» the stance taking by the Electoral Commission on the call for new voters register.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is calling on the state to form an independent commission to get to the bottom of dozens of wrongful convictions in the borough, perhaps headed by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.

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.

The New York State Investigations Commission (a somewhat obscure entity headed by appointees of former Governor Pataki, Senator Joe Bruno, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver) is investigating earlier investigations of Troopergate.

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.

Investigators also sought records for a phone number once assigned to Seth Agata, Cuomo's former assistant counsel and current head of the state Ethics Commission.

The bar association traditionally rates candidates for the Court of Appeals chosen by the state's Commission on Judicial Nomination, which is headed by the state's first woman chief judge, former Judge Judith Kaye.

The commission was headed by former Mayor of New York Ed Koch and financial expert Frank Zarb.

In February, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito appointed a criminal justice commission headed by former New York State chief judge Jonathan Lippman, to look into the possibility of closing the infamous jail, and members of the real estate industry are getting more involved in answering that question.

The idea of shuttering the island facility and moving prisoners to borough - based prisons is one of the many criminal justice issues to be looked at by a new independent commission headed up by former state chief judge Jonathan Lippman, that Mark - Viverito unveiled during her speech.

Cuomo said lawyer Daniel Horwitz, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, will take over from Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore as head of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

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

The on going trial of a former Head of Service, HoS, Stephen Oronsaye, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for a N2 billion fraud to November 25, 2015 has been adjourned by Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

The South - South Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ishaq Salihu on Monday, appealed to scores of protesters that swarmed the Port Harcourt Office of the Commission, not to take laws into their hands and allow justice to take its course in the investigation and imminent prosecution of Mr. George Turnah, a former Special Adviser to erstwhile managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Dan Abia.

The impression that Albany's ethics watchdogs are not actually independent has been festering for years as Cuomo has seen to it that three of his former longtime employees have headed the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and President, ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (2nd left) with Head, ECOWAS Observer Mission and former Ghanaian President, Mr. John Mahama (3rd Left) at the briefing.

The commission will have subpoena power and includes, among others, Robert Abrams, the former state attorney general; Cuomo aide Benjamin Lawsky, who heads up the Department of Financial Services; John Dyson, the former NYPA chairman; former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green; Cuomo ally and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice; and Rev. Floyd Flake, the politically powerful pastor of Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Queens.

Speaking Sunday at a press conference detailing the report, the head of the 27 - member commission, former New York Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman, excoriated Rikers Island as a «penal colony» physically and psychologically remote from the city at large that does far more harm than good to anyone who ends up there.

Ms. Mark - Viverito has named former NY Court of Appeals Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman to head a commission that will examine the jail and methods to transfer prisoners out of it.

A former Head of Communications at the Ministry of Petroleum, Edward Bawa, in a previous interview with Citi News said the extra $ 150 million was a commission that was included in the original Bills of Quantity submitted to undertake the service, and was paid because AMERI was «not a charity organisation» hence had to be paid for its work.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and President, ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (2nd left), former Ghanaian President and Head of ECOWAS Observation Mission to Liberia, Mr John Mahama (2nd right), National Commissioners, Prof Anthonia Taye Okoosi - Simbine (left) and Dr Adekunle Ogunmola (right) after a meeting today in Monrovia ahead of the Liberia's Presidential election scheduled for October 10.

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.

Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC) Chairman and President, ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (left), with former Ghanaian President and Head of ECOWAS Observation Group, Mr. John Mahama, at a meeting today in Monrovia to discuss Liberia's Presidential election coming up on 10th October.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, re-arraigned Mohammed Ahmed Katun, a former Assistant Director, Pension Account, Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, OHCSF, on a 12 - count amended charge bordering on diversion of pension funds to tune of N81.4 million before Justice A. R. Mohammed of Federal High Court, Abuja.

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 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, arraigned the former Head of Service of the Federation, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, before an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama.

As well, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will hold private meetings with a number of former and current Heads of States including Paul Kagame of Rwanda, President of the ECOWAS Commission, Marcel de Souza and former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae.

The usual gaggle of self - styled good - government groups is calling on Gov. Paterson to appoint David Grandeau, former head of the state Lobbying Commission, as chairman of the Public Integrity Commission...