Sentences with phrase «former heads of agencies»

The event was attended by both current and former heads of agencies under the Ministry.

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Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is now Trump's national security adviser.

«The agency has a fair amount of latitude to turn the screws up,» said David Vladeck, the former head of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection who signed the consent order which binds Facebook for 20 years.

A former aide to Scott Pruitt told members of Congress new details about the head of the Environmental Protection Agency's extravagant spending habits, which include the purchase of bulletproof weapons and vests, and leasing art from the Smithsonian for his office.

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.

There are currently two interim leaders of the agency: current head of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, who was selected by President Trump to oversee the consumer watchdog until a permanent replacement could be found, and Leandra English, former CFPB chief of staff turned deputy director, whom Cordray had appointed.

On Bloomberg television last week, James B. Lockhart III, the former head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (Fannie and Freddie's regulator) commented on the bailout funds already provided to Fannie and Freddie, saying «Most of that money will never be seen again.

Anonymous: unfortunately the PCs re-wrote the legislation in favour of the oil companies a few years ago and appointed industry and PC insiders to key regulatory posts — Gerry Protti, formerly of CAPP, is the chairman of the new Alberta Energy Board, Jim Elliis, formerly DM for Environment is Protti's CEO and Lorne Taylor, a former PC MLA is the head of the oilsands emissions monitoring agency.

Michael Hayden, former head of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, had something to say about the Jade Helm military...

She plays a former super model, who owns a bunch of businesses, including a private detective agency headed by Bruce Willis.

The agency was headed until January by Bill Mulrow, a former Blackstone lobbyist who is now the governor's chief of staff.

11:00 - former head of the UK Border Force Bodie Clark and UK Border Agency chief executive Rob Whiteman, before home affairs committee, on: Border checks during Summer 2011

Seth Agata, recently appointed the head of the state ethics enforcement agency, JCOPE, is Governor Cuomo's former top lawyer.

Spota also said Bellone's efforts were designed to thwart district attorney probes of Bellone aides and Bellone's boyhood friend Robert Stricoff, a former Babylon Democratic leader and town industrial development agency head.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

He did not speak specifically to any appointees other than Carson, but Democrats have expressed dismay over the selection of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General, fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Department of Labor, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration, mega-investor Wilbur Ross for the Department of Commerce, billionaire businesswoman Betsy Devos for the Department of Education, ex-Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin for Department of of the Treasury and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Bill Finch, the former mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., was elected by the Thruway Authority's board to head the agency that oversees the 570 - mile superhighway and the Tappan Zee Bridge, along with its replacement set to open in 2018.

A payment of $ 50,000 to an unidentified woman by Sam Hoyt, the former head of the state regional economic developmental agency, to secure a confidentiality agreement is sparking controversy.

Wole Soyinka's at the opening of a meeting of heads of anti corruption agencies on Monday called on the EFCC to beam its searchlight on some country's former leaders.

Today the Times reveals that up to one million illegal immigrants may be living in Britain and many will never be deported, according to a former head of the UK Border Agency.

The probes come following a many letters sent to investigatory agencies by Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, D - Queens, former head of the Senate higher education committee.

Superintendent Lawsky heads the New York State Department of Financial Services, a new state agency which combines the former New York State Insurance Department and the former New York State Banking Department.

Even a former head of the Health Department's Center of Environmental Health admitted his agency «downplays» risks and stresses uncertainties about PFOA's effects, violating the «precautionary principle» officials are supposed to adhere to.

He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency that was also alleged of corruption.

The agency which initially arraigned the accused persons on July 13, 2015, on a 24 - count charge, told the court that it was tracking a former Deputy Director of Finance in the office of the Head of Service, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, (now at large), who it said was also involved in fraud.

A new book co-authored by former Transportation Security Administration Administrator Kip Hawley and Nathan Means explains Hawley's record as head of the controversial agency from 2005 to early 2009 and the genesis of «security theater»

Stansfield Turner, former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, says the abuse «indicates the Bush administration's indifference to laws and rules and regulations».

Today (Friday) the Senate is expected to confirm another 2013 nominee, «physicist Ellen Williams, the former chief scientist at energy giant BP and a longtime professor at the University of Maryland, College Park,» as the second head of DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

But John Knauss, a former URI dean who was then head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, recruited him to beef up NOAA's ocean service, and Evans held a series of increasingly responsible jobs at the agency before moving to the Smithsonian in 2002 to become its first head of science.

As expected, Obama selected New Jersey's former environmental chief Lisa Jackson, 46, as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the first African - American to head the EPA.

David Kessler, a former head of the FDA, recently told The Wall Street Journal, «There is no doubt that user fees give the industry leverage on setting the agency's priorities.

The former heads of Israel's military anti-terrorism agency Shin Bet break their silence in this unnerving, eye - opening documentary.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Screen adaptation of John le Carre's classic, espionage thriller, set at the height of the Cold War, about a disgraced, former head of British intelligence (Gary Oldman) who comes out of retirement to catch the Soviet mole who has infiltrated the agency's highest echelons.

Then there's Mike Baker, the head of the Baker Detective Agency and a former associate of your dad's.

WASHINGTON — Although the Education Department's research centers and regional laboratories have produced some high - quality research, a significant portion of their output «could be substantially improved,» a study commissioned by the agency's former research head has found.

It's common for a federal agency to switch policy directions after a change in leadership, especially following a presidential election, said Douglas A. Levin, a consultant with EdTech Strategies and the former head of the State Educational Technology Directors Association.

Barack Obama to Nominate John B. King Jr. as U.S. Education Secretary Former N.Y. Educator has been acting head of agency after resignation of Arne Duncan Wall Street Journal

Two points: 1) An update on the Lamar Smith affair (which I continue to regard as a politically motivated witchhunt): «About 600 scientists and engineers, including former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have signed on to letters urging the head of that agency, Kathryn Sullivan, to push back against political interference in science.

The former head of President Donald Trump's transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it is only a matter of time before the president pulls America out of the Paris climate agreement, and that an executive order on the issue could come within days.

Virtually every other key policy role was filled by environmental regulators — former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Carol Browner as climate czar, former Browner aide Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator, and Nancy Sutley as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Because it produces roughly half the CO2 emissions of coal, natural gas has been considered as a bridge fuel to zero - carbon energy supplies by Al Gore, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Resources for the Future, former Environmental Protection Agency head and former Obama climate chief Carol Browner, and energy experts across the political spectrum.

The effort seems to come from the very top of the company, with a new video narrated by Apple CEO Tim Cook and a letter by Lisa Jackson, Apple's head - honcho of green initiatives and the former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Former deputy head of China's top planning agency confesses in court to extensive bribery, Reuters

One of Canada's most experienced mediators, George Adams is a former law professor, agency head and superior court judge.

Also receiving an OBE were: Karen Jones, Crown Advocate at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), for services to law and order; David Thomas, senior legal business advisor at the CPS, for services to law and order; Derrick Kelleher, head of operations in the National Crime Agency's organised crime command; Graeme Nuttall, partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse, for services to employee ownership, share schemes and mutual; Jennifer Bibbings, Dubai partner at Trowers & Hamlins, for services to British business interests; and Elspeth Macarthur, former member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland, for services to judicial appointments.

Former information commissioner, Richard Thomas, got the enforcement ball rolling before he stepped down this summer; his successor Christopher Graham shows all the signs of taking up the reigns as the head of an effective enforcement agency.

South Korean court sentences former head of spy agency to prison for election interference, Reuters

Roughly a month after William Morris vet Lewis Henderson said he was leaving the talent agency, the former digital media head has a new job: CEO of agency Davie Brown Entertainment, part of The Marketing Arm and Omnicom Group.

WASHINGTON The former head of a federal agency helping U.S. states protect election systems from hackers has been hired for a similar role within the Trump administration after being passed up for reappointment by Republican Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House.