Sentences with phrase «head of policy in»

Anthony Browne, Head of Policy in the Mayor's office, warned that the extra taxes could push higher earners to other countries without bringing in revenue for the Treasury:

Cameron hopes to have allayed such criticisms by establishing a new advisory «policy board» consisting of troublemaking Tory MPs into Downing Street, headed by Orpington MP Jo Johnson who becomes the new head of policy in No 10.

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In February, Simon Milner, Facebook's U.K. head of policy at the time, told officials that Cambridge Analytica did not have any Facebook data.

ConocoPhillips» Australian head has warned domestic gas reservation policies and anti-industry activism could threaten the development of a viable market in Western Australia.

Stefan Ingves, governor of the Riksbank, and Jesper Hansson, head of the monetary policy department, will participate in the press conference - 0900 GMT.

«I think it would be inappropriate from a policy or legal perspective to give these people who have been operating outside of the law to a head start in a retail market.

«We were encouraged by many pieces of the bill that align with what we've been saying, in particular a ban on paid prioritization and blocking are things we have advocated for,» says Althea Erickson, Etsy's head of public policy.

What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

«A range of policy choices skewed the market in favor of diesel, whereas in the rest of the world this didn't happen,» says Greg Archer, who heads the Clean Vehicles arm of Transport & Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Brussels.

I reached out to Dane Stangler, Startup Genome's Head of Policy, to see if he thought the turmoil would be a significant drag on Barcelona's startup ecosystem in the future.

As Neil Dutta, head of economic research for Renaissance Macro, wrote in a note to clients, Friday's report was the lowest reading in sixth months, and the index has been «below the 50 breakeven level for nine of the last ten months and will likely intensify calls for additional policy accommodation.»

Facebook is planning a series of public forums in May and June in different countries to get more feedback on its rules, said Mary deBree, Facebook's head of content policy.

So the importance of the Fed's announcement wasn't so much the formal shift in policy, but what could be gathered about the state of the world's largest economy and where borrowing costs are headed.

«This is a bad proposal that will make it harder for thousands of New Yorkers to pay the bills,» Josh Meltzer, Airbnb's head of New York public policy, said in a statement.

But it represents a rising wave of overtly racist political action in the U.S., with scheduled speeches from alt - right leaders including National Policy Institute head Richard Spencer.

Lindsey, the head of the Lindsey Group and architect of tax cuts in the Bush 43 White House, told his clients in the note that if tax reform was passed, «The political and economic policy implications would be massive and far reaching.»

One such critic of Obama's Iran policy was Michael Flynn, a lieutenant general who was forced out as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.

«As we have said many times, we have always been committed to paying songwriters and publishers every penny,» Spotify global head of communications and public policy Jonathan Prince said in a statement.

Members of the National Policy Institute, which is headed by Spencer, had contacted the university for plans to rent space on the campus in Gainesville, Florida on Sept. 12.

Jung Ki - joon, head of economic policy coordination at the Office for Government Policy Coordination, was found dead in Seoul on Sunday, Yonhappolicy coordination at the Office for Government Policy Coordination, was found dead in Seoul on Sunday, YonhapPolicy Coordination, was found dead in Seoul on Sunday, Yonhap said.

«We will be profitable, as measured by EBITDA,» said Chris Lehane, global head of policy and public affairs, in a conference call.

Knight would be the second top economic policy aide to leave the White House in recent weeks after Gary Cohn, the former head of the council, resigned last month over his disagreement with the president's implementation of steel and aluminum tariffs.

«The vast majority of our hosts in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and across the county are middle class people who depend on home sharing as a way to address economic inequality,» Chris Lehane, head of global policy and communications at Airbnb, said in a statement.

There are no exceptions for this policy, Microsoft's head of Xbox Phil Spencer told Business Insider in an interview on Monday — first - party Microsoft - owned franchises like «Halo,» «Gears of War,» and «Forza Motorsport» are all included.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A majority of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell as the next head of the central bank, likely ensuring continuity in monetary policy.

«M&A dialogue remains robust despite concerns about the potential impact of changes in America's trade and national security policies on deal activity,» said Stephen Arcano, head of M&A at Skadden.

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«There have been transitions before where the department headed off in new directions, but there is traditionally a period of new people coming in and studying and learning about issues before taking bold and dramatic new policy directions,» said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department.

He insisted that the country was headed in the right direction and that no ratings agency would dictate the policies of France, which has Europe's second - biggest economy, behind Germany's.

Committee members displayed visible outrage during the session, accusing Facebook of concealing the truth or at very least concealing evidence from it at a prior hearing that took place in Washington in February — when the company sent its UK head of policy, Simon Milner, and its head of global policy management, Monika Bickert, to field questions.

In 2006 — 2007, he served as acting political director and head of the security and defense policy division at the Slovak Ministry of Defense.

«The market has been pricing in a closer election all summer,» Strategas's head of policy research tells CNBC.

Brent Wilton, the company's global head of workplace rights, said in an email to Reuters, «We are partnering with the pilot of this project to further increase transparency and efficiency of the verification process related to labor policies within our supply chain.»

The co-CIO of PIMCO appeared on Bloomberg TV's «In the Loop» Thursday and said Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, should have offered concrete policy steps at Thursday's ECB policy meeting.

Our Multi-Asset Solutions CIO Ed Perks, Head of Equities Stephen Dover and Templeton Global Macro CIO Michael Hasenstab recently recorded a podcast discussing the changing fiscal and monetary policy conditions in the year ahead.

Gina Tsai, Airbnb's Head of Public Policy in Hong Kong and Taiwan, noted that the Japanese Diet has passed a new bill that supports short - term rentals nationwide and the new bill is expected to unlock huge opportunity for Japan's tourism industry, allowing more international tourists to experience the country authentically.

As Stephen Gordon often writes, in reality, economic policy has a larger impact on the quality and pay of jobs than on the raw head counts.

The best solution to both these problems would be a grand bargain that limits the growth of debt over the long term while trimming the immediate deficit just enough to show that policy is heading in the right direction.

Given the nation's divisions, it's risky for heads of companies to even appear to take sides in political or policy - related matters, marketing experts say.

But, as things stand, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of monetary policy alone in heading off the disinflationary forces imported from China and its ability to push growth in any meaningful way beyond the present trajectory.

The Fed's policy statement acknowledged inflation was heading toward the central bank's annual 2 % target, with the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the personal - consumption expenditures index for March, rising to a 12 - month rate of 2 % for the first time in a year.

«For the Fed, the underlying momentum is more important in terms of policy decisions, and that looks to be strong, supported by a tightening labor market, rising incomes and high consumer confidence,» Gregory Daco, head of U.S. macroeconomics at Oxford Economics, told Reuters.

As far as the actual momentary policies are concerned, the central bank left everything unchanged today, while the head of the bank signaled that he is confident about growth in the Euro - zone, sparking initial buying in the common currency.

For example, if you are in a car crash and lose your sight in one eye due to a head injury, an AD&D policy would pay out a portion of your policy's face amount to help you pay for medical expenses or simply to help you get back on your feet.

As of late, the heads of two of the largest central banks in the world (the Fed and the ECB) have pointed to the fact that it is up to the politicians to enact policy to spur economic growth.

I will be heading to Montréal to participate in the NDP Policy Convention, where the political pundits of Canada will observe Tom Mulcair leading the «dippers» on the road to what many expect will be the formation of the next government of Canada.

In addition, Chipotle hired a new head of food safety who implemented a number of changes to policies at the Company's restaurants — for example, requiring all employees to wash their hands every half hour, mandating that two employees verified that certain ingredients had been immersed in hot water for at least five seconds to kill germs, and using Pascalization to pre-treat food ingredientIn addition, Chipotle hired a new head of food safety who implemented a number of changes to policies at the Company's restaurants — for example, requiring all employees to wash their hands every half hour, mandating that two employees verified that certain ingredients had been immersed in hot water for at least five seconds to kill germs, and using Pascalization to pre-treat food ingredientin hot water for at least five seconds to kill germs, and using Pascalization to pre-treat food ingredients.

Mark Carney, the new head of the Bank of England, previously led Canada's central bank — a decision that garnered the U.K. wide applause in the monetary - policy community.

«The Chinese are deeply concerned and we hear now from reliable sources in Beijing who suggest the Chinese government, the Communist Party, are developing lists of U.S. interests against which they could retaliate, commercial interests, and obviously one merely has to look at top U.S. exports to China to get a quick sense of whose heads may be on the chopping block,» said one China trade policy expert who interacts closely with U.S. business.

But C.D. Howe Institute research vice president Finn Poschmann said Poloz's background as head of Export Development Canada could signal a shift in the central bank's focus from monetary policy alone to encompass broader issues.