Sentences with phrase «global practices at»

Despite widespread efforts to boost diversity, there are still relatively few women running global practices at the UK's top law firms.

Despite efforts to boost diversity, men still outnumber women more than five to one when it comes to running global practices at the UK's top law firms.

Not exact matches

Former Ashurst partner Paul Riethmuller has started at global law firm Jones Day as a partner in its projects and infrastructure practice in Perth.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

They believe responsibility rests in three areas for allowing Sarao's alleged spoofing practices to continue so long: His futures commission merchant — essentially the entity that cleared the trades, which at the time was the now - defunct MF Global — along with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Written by James Allen, co-leader of the global strategy practice at Bain & Company and co-author of the upcoming book «The Founder's Mentality.»

President Xi's view that China should put its power into practice and take an active role in regional and global affairs, which was solidified at the 19th Party Congress with his consolidation of power, creates greater uncertainty in Russia about China's long - term ambitions.

As an Associate Partner at Accenture, Vernon led the firm's $ 100 million global eProcurement practice.

That's a testament to the cost control practiced at PwC, where the U.S. employee base in fiscal year 2016 grew 8 percent and the global headcount during the same time frame grew 7 percent.

Prior to joining OMERS Ventures, Mr. Ruffolo was a Partner at Deloitte, as well as the Global Thought Leader, the Global Tax Leader and the Canadian Industry Leader for Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) practice.

Previously he was a Director (senior partner) at McKinsey and co-founded and led the Cleantech and Sustainability practice there, working extensively with Global 100 technology, industrial, infrastructure, building systems, retail, utility and energy companies across the US, China, Korea, Japan, India, and Europe.

Prior to founding of The Value Alliance, Ms. Bloxham devoted nearly twenty years of her professional career in financial services posts encompassing the banking, investments and insurance sectors, holding executive positions at Prudential Financial Services and at Bank One (now merged into JPMorganChase), where she managed strategic, financial, operations, technology, and compliance functions and at KPMG where she ran a global practice.

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Before joining Accenture, he was VP in charge of logistics consulting at Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc. (now Mercer Management Consulting) and a VP of Data Resources, Inc. (now part of Global Insights, Inc.), where he founded the Firm's transportation and logistics consulting practice.

Prior to this, Mr. Makarov acted as the Chief Legal Officer at RUSAL Global Management B.V. Throughout the period between 2004 and 2011 he practiced Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions law as a partner at the international law firm, Jones Day.

Michael Zakkour is vice president, China / Asia Pacific Practice at global consulting firm Tompkins International and is the author of best - selling business book «China's Super Consumers.»

«We are at the forefront of a growing global trend — business doctoral degree programs around the world are innovating to bring together theory with real - world practice,» Jim Dewald, dean, Haskayne School of Business.

People are starting to better understand how important their retirement is — and how ill - prepared they are, said Owen Davies, lead for the global pension practice at Accenture in Sacramento, Calif..

Prior to joining Vision Critical, she served as General Counsel at Q9, a provider of outsourced data center services, practiced in the Corporate Group of Baker & McKenzie and held legal counsel positions with several companies, including CanWest Global and General Motors of Canada.

As we did in our annual, more global study, we spent a good deal of time in this research looking at the differences between the marketers who rate themselves highly in terms of overall content marketing effectiveness (the «most effective») versus those who rate themselves as least effective to understand the gaps and identify best practices for paid content promotion.

At McKinsey, he worked with leading global corporations in a variety of industries on strategy and organization challenges and held a number of leadership positions, including serving as a Managing Partner of the Canadian practice from 1991 to 1997 and co-leading its Global eBusiness praglobal corporations in a variety of industries on strategy and organization challenges and held a number of leadership positions, including serving as a Managing Partner of the Canadian practice from 1991 to 1997 and co-leading its Global eBusiness praGlobal eBusiness practice.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

He has completed a Masters of Global Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary and is completing a Doctorate at Fuller where he is exploring the anodyne influence of the collective church at the intersection of race, justice, and the practices of peacemaking in the public square.

Some would argue that current trends toward «sustainable development» are becoming so prominent and pervasive within both government and corporate practices as to suggest that the global market economy, at least in democratic, industrialized countries, itself could be in the midst of a pervasive paradigm shift.

At the farm level, our highly experienced global field operations team supports our growers with training & best practices to help eliminate & reduce potential food safety.

Mountain Pure is certified at all three facilities by the Global Food Safety Initiative for food quality, food safety, HACCP, good manufacturing practices, and codex alimentarius.

Although the practice has long disappeared in temperate regions, it is still common in tropical and subtropical areas and is said to be practiced by at least 300 million people, involving up to 30 % of the global exploitable soils (Warner 1991).

To ensure the quality and safety of our beef we select premium Northwest cattle and have received key food safety certifications through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Global Food Safety initiative (GFSI) which recognizes food safety practices at the highest level.

Her additional expertise in lactation management has been acquired through her midwifery practice, as a member of the clinical faculty at Wellstart International in San Diego and as senior technical staff with LINKAGES, a global breastfeeding promotion project based in Washington DC.

A feature film examining Nestlé's practices had a hugely successful world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2014 and is due to go on global release.

Over the years, the variety of actions at all levels — from global to local — has contributed to positive change in policy and practice.

The study explores different perspectives on paternity leave, including a survey of more than 1,000 fathers from nearly 300 different organizations (primarily well - educated professionals); a benchmarking study of paternity leave policies at leading organizations; and a review of global paternity leave policies and practices, as well as U.S. states that have enacted laws to provide paid parental leave.

Her current gig is at ILCA, which is the International Lactation Consultant Association, where she works to market and promote breastfeeding and lactation consultant practice on a global scale.

The Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative is a global program launched by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, and has at its core the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (Ten Steps), which describe evidence - based hospital policies and practices that have been shown to improve breastfeeding outcomes.

While breastfeeding rates are no longer declining at the global level, with many countries experiencing significant increases in the last decade, only 39 per cent of children less than six months of age in the developing world are exclusively breastfed and just 58 per cent of 20 - 23 month olds benefit from the practice of continued breastfeeding.

The Centre of Governance and Human Rights at Cambridge University is a multi-disciplinary research endeavour committed to advancing thought and practice within areas of critical importance to global justice and human well - being in the twenty - first century.

Mr Brown, speaking at Harvard University, where he is a visiting fellow, urged world leaders to set out global rules for regulating banking practice and securing jobs and growth.

In a goodwill message to the participants, the Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Rogers Nicholas told the gathering that the current Service Chiefs of the Armed Forces of Nigeria established Human Rights Desks at all Services and Formation Headquarters to meet the dictates of global best practices.

Dr. Olugbile, before his appointment, was with the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank managing projects in Nigeria and also at the West Africa sub-region.

«There is therefore no alternative to realistic and continuous training, especially at this material time, if the Army is to remain combat ready and capable of performing these task properly in line with the global practices.

At the four high schools on the Brandeis campus on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the sports teams now practice in the hallway because the Success Academy elementary charter school in the building gets sole use of the gym after school, says Jeff Picca, the chapter leader at the Global Learning Collaborative HAt the four high schools on the Brandeis campus on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the sports teams now practice in the hallway because the Success Academy elementary charter school in the building gets sole use of the gym after school, says Jeff Picca, the chapter leader at the Global Learning Collaborative Hat the Global Learning Collaborative HS.

Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner of the venture capital practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, is cautiously optimistic: «The signs are encouraging, if not yet definitive.

Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

«The compelling results seen in this global study provide unequivocal evidence supporting the clinical utility of Oncotype DX to risk - stratify patients with early stage breast cancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Yet, «we already grow enough food to feed the world, we've been doing that for decades,» noted ecologist Catherine Badgley of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (U.M.), who led a study assessing whether organic agriculture practices alone might adequately meet global nutritional requirements.

Prior to founding Inductis, he was a partner at the Mitchell Madison Group (MMG), an eminent global strategy consulting firm, where he led the Analytics and Ecommerce Practice area.

«This generation is different,» said Jeanne Branthover, head of the global financial services practice at Boyden, an executive search firm.

We're going to make global climate change worse — we're never going to cut into the terrible practices that go on at factory farms where animals clearly suffer.

REPs close working relationship with ICREPs and the other fitness registers around the world means we can learn from global best practice and ensure that the UAE fitness industry rightfully takes its place and has influence at the global level.

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