Sentences with phrase «government policy adviser»

Author: R. Lance Boldrey is a partner at Dykema in Lansing, Michigan; Douglas E. Mains is an associate in Lansing; and Scott L. Selinger is a government policy adviser based in Chicago.

As a government policy adviser in Queensland (Australia), I discovered after having had my promotion blocked several times that I was considered a threat by the most senior officers because of my «honesty, integrity, intellect and analytical rigour.»

Robert Hill, a former government policy adviser, called for clarity.

Labour MP John Mann said it was extraordinary that Downing Street did not make any public announcement after the resignation and arrest of former government policy adviser Patrick Rock.

Not exact matches

George Papadopoulos, a former foreign - policy adviser to the campaign, pleaded guilty earlier this year to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

An early foreign - policy adviser and aide to President Donald Trump's campaign team secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

According to recently unsealed court documents, former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos said that it was at an April 26 meeting at a London hotel that he was told by a professor closely connected to the Russian government that the Kremlin had obtained compromising information about Clinton.

The senior policy adviser for the Obesity Policy Coalition, Jane Martin, also voices concern at the way the government's bid to seem reasonable to all sides ends up trapping it in the grip of indpolicy adviser for the Obesity Policy Coalition, Jane Martin, also voices concern at the way the government's bid to seem reasonable to all sides ends up trapping it in the grip of indPolicy Coalition, Jane Martin, also voices concern at the way the government's bid to seem reasonable to all sides ends up trapping it in the grip of industry.

Sam Kass, Michele Obama's chef and food policy adviser, is giving the keynote, and many of the speakers are associated with government or private groups devoted to improving the diets, physical activity, and overall health of Black Americans.

Laws had a rare vantage point at the centre of Coalition government as he attended the Quad, met regularly with Clegg and his policy advisers, served on important Cabinet Committees, frequently brokering deals between the Coalition parties.

The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy fuel oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.

Katerina Rüdiger, skills policy adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, comments on the government's embattled workfare scheme:

The New York Times reported separately this past week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

«It would not surprise me if the governor were looking for an innovative policy program that had a clear political dividend, they would gear it around the associates degrees,» said Bruce Gyory, a senior policy adviser for Manatt, Phelps & Phillips» government and regulatory policy practice.

The Cabinet Office have launched an investigation after the prime minister's chief policy adviser was caught dumping government papers in the park.

«It is outrageous that the government is forcing compulsory use of biofuels onto the British public without full evidence of their impact,» Oxfam policy adviser Robert Bailey said.

The Prime Minister's political secretary, government relations director and two policy advisers all want to become MPs next month.

The New York Times reported separately this week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

«He was asked to go because he can not be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy.»

He argued a «matter of principle» had to be defended but could not explain why government advisers could not repeat their views once ministers had decided on their policy.

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

«David Cameron today fired one of his top policy advisers for failing to vote for the government in last week's vote on military intervention in Syria.

«The speaker has promised to reveal whom he meets with and how he spends his day,» said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany.

His proposals for more rational, evidence - based drug policies have triggered angry reactions, and he was fired as a top U.K. government adviser in 2009 for criticizing a new cannabis policy.

But as demonstrated in Kai Kupferschmidt's News Focus profile of David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist at Imperial College London and an adviser to the British government on drug policy, combining the two roles can make sense when it's done right.

But some old antibiotics are still exempt from the new law — the Korean medical association says that's because the majority of government policy - makers and advisers are pharmacists.

The hope is that such advisers will help keep the government «more honest» by pushing politicians to consider hard scientific evidence before passing new policies, says committee chair Phil Willis.

President Barack Obama's directive today to his science adviser to «restore scientific integrity to government decision - making» is a culmination of a long campaign by science advocacy groups against the policies of the Bush Administration.

Signatories of the letter include David King and Robert May, former government chief scientific advisers; Colin Blakemore, a member of the U.K. Drug Policy Commission and former director of the Medical Research Council; and Gabriel Horn, chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Group on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs.

U.K. Science Minister Lord Paul Drayson is the latest notable to condemn the sacking of David Nutt, former top drug policy adviser to the British government.

He was asked to go because he can not be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy.

Science advice: The firing of drug policy adviser David Nutt has led to a row in the United Kingdom about how the government should handle independent scientific advice.

Democrats called White unqualified to be the government's top environmental adviser and policy coordinator, citing what they called her poor command of basic climate and environmental science.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

«The federal government has a unique role to play, mainly in reducing the cost of capital for them to acquire these buildings,» Christy Wolfe, senior policy adviser at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, told The 74.

In an interview with BBC Two's Newsnight, Mr Gove's former adviser Dominic Cummings said: «In government I certainly did stop a great deal of Clegg's interference in school policy.

He is the author of many books on social policy, landscape and architecture and was a member of the UK government's Urban Green Spaces Task Force, and adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).

Climate science is an area that exemplifies the importance of ensuring that policy makers — particularly Governments and their advisers, Non-Governmental Organisations and other lobbyists — understand the limits on what scientists can say and with what degree of confidence.

An adviser to the Chinese government on climate change was quoted by Reuters as saying the following at a Beijing climate - policy conference on Tuesday:

Touching faith, Tony, not borne out by my experience as a government economic policy adviser.

«The Center for Carbon Removal has an important role to play in guiding industry and governments as they develop new, sustainable, and scalable tools to fight climate change,» said Dr. Daniel Kammen, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the Center's team of a dozen advisers from industry, finance, policy, and academia.

The Taskforce is comprised of eminent scientists, business leaders, policy advisers and political leaders drawn from around the world.5 Its purpose is to recommend to all governments a framework for managing climate change responses that is truly global, provides long - term direction, and is genuinely responsive to the scale of the problem.

According to sources, the White House political block — a direct violation of numerous ethics regulations and possibly of federal laws — was instituted over the objections of scientists at the FDA, but with the awareness of HHS Secretary Sibelius, her senior adviser Andrea Palm and the Office of Science and Technology Policy and its director John Holdren, who is responsible for enforcing «science integrity» across government agencies...

«At the end of last year, Sir John Beddington, a former chief scientific adviser to the British government, lifted the lid on the scandal at the heart of the EU's renewable policies.

-LSB-...] at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a prominent policy adviser for the Chinese government, has advocated for China to aim for a peaking of carbon emissions in 2030, while He Jiankun, deputy head of the -LSB-...]

Less Government is an «organization dedicated to reducing the power of government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault,» which was founded and run by Seton Motley, who is also listed as a policy adviser to the climate science - denying Heartland Government is an «organization dedicated to reducing the power of government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault,» which was founded and run by Seton Motley, who is also listed as a policy adviser to the climate science - denying Heartland government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault,» which was founded and run by Seton Motley, who is also listed as a policy adviser to the climate science - denying Heartland Institute.

The task force's recommendations led to the creation of the National Climate Change Policy, authored by Qamar - uz - Zaman Chaudhry, a climate adviser to the government and currently vice president of the World Meteorological Organisation.

How many Mail readers realise that one of our government's top climate policy advisers, Dieter Helm, is recommending what, to them, would be an eye - wateringly high carbon tax.

Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a prominent policy adviser for the Chinese government, has also advocated for China to aim for peaking carbon emissions in 2030.

Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a prominent policy adviser for the Chinese government, has advocated for China to aim for a peaking of carbon emissions in 2030, while Read the full story