Sentences with phrase «leading global role»

She has embarked on new challenges, playing a leading global role as a co-chair of the Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign, which seeks cancellation of the unpayable backlog debts of the poor countries in Africa by the year 2000.

The timing is perfect for a nation concerned about plutonium stockpiles to take a leading global role in plutonium disposition.

Not exact matches

«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

This year's list of powerful Latina women prioritizes women leading large public companies with significant global operating roles, rather than c - level staff roles.

Puma leads three areas that support all PepsiCo businesses In the global procurement role, she manages nearly $ 25 billion of spend across all lines of the business.

In her new role, she is responsible for leading more than $ 1 billion in global loyalty services business, after serving as the Latin American Caribbean region EVP of products, marketing, and advisors services.

One is Katrina Jones of Accenture, who recently took a lead role at the firm in global inclusion and diversity that has her working on initiatives in the U.S., the U.K., and South Africa.

He was hired from Credit Suisse, where he was head of global internet investment banking and was perhaps best known for his leading role on the initial public offering of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group in 2014, the largest share sale ever.

In his role as President of Cerberus, Mr. Zames will have broad responsibilities across the Firm's global businesses and will lead a number of strategic investing and operating initiatives, including overseeing all investments in the financial services industry.

Welcome to the autumn edition of Gold Investor, where leading commentators and market participants discuss new developments for gold and its evolving global role.

Welcome to the winter edition of Gold Investor, where leading commentators and market participants discuss new developments for gold and its evolving global role.

In her current role, Ms. McMillion leads the development of global investment strategy.

In this role, she was responsible for global business development, leading a team of 10 global salespeople in print, digital, webcasts and events.

As the Director of Business Operations and Customer Relations, she was responsible for growing a stealth company into an industry - defining brand, driving new global business opportunities with strategic partnerships, and playing a critical role in securing Skybox's venture capital financing from leading investors and eventual acquisition by Google in 2014 for $ 500M.

To be sure, global policy liquidity has played the lead role in pushing asset prices to new highs, with strong correlations across both risk - free and risky assets.

At Knowledge Infusion he also developed and launched many new services at the firm and played a lead consulting role with many of the firm's Global 2000 clients.

We favour Canadian participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership and we encourage our Governments to take the hard decisions that will allow us once again to play a leading role in global trade policy development.

One came from Gary Van Prooyen while he was in his role as Motorola Solutions Global Brand & Content Operations lead, and that was to use a brand voice that is «Human, confident, imaginative and clear.»

Jeff was promoted into his current role in January 2013, where he is responsible for managing the global Glass Lewis sales team, marketing, and plays a lead role in developing and managing relationships with strategic partners.

In this role, he leads and has management oversight of MFS» Global Relationship Management team.

It suggests that as China demonstrates a stronger leading role in global security issues and its capacity to deal with security issues grows, expanded trade with China may be seen as posing less of a threat to Canadians.

This country can play a leading role in nudging Washington and Beijing toward co-operative global institutions, such as a revised IMF and World Bank, and an enlarged AIIB that sustains the global liberal order.

Overseeing trading across all of QIC's global liquid market asset classes, her key roles include leading QIC's global liquid markets trading team to achieve «best execution» and ensure all trading activity is accurate and compliant.

The same holds true for our leading role in global capitalism.

As Brazil's role in the global meat trade market grows in importance as one of the leading producers and exporters of beef, Brazilian meat processors increasingly need to implement inspection methods in their production lines in order to comply with international safety and hygiene regulations [2].

«The company's strategy has always been to align itself with leading brands and role players in global markets.»

Lead Judge David Luttenberger, CPP, global packaging director for the Mintel Group, said, «Helping consumers understand the importance of packaging [is a challenge], whether it's in food, drink, medicine or just giving them economical access to the products that they need every day... to make their lives easier, more convenient, safer and make them feel more confident not only about the products they buy, but the role packaging plays in helping ensure that those products maintain their freshness, their quality and their efficacy.»

With the COP21 Climate Summit occurring in Paris later this year, this new Food Waste Resolution, together with the CGF's work on deforestation and low - carbon refrigeration, demonstrates the industry's commitment to play a leading role in limiting global temperature rises to 2 °C.

Kunis joins the Jim Beam family as a global partner and spokesperson, and will play a leading role in Jim Beam's new Make History multi-media brand campaign that will reach more than 100 markets worldwide.

In his role as Managing Director for North Asia and Global Travel Retail, Peter is responsible for leading the TWE business in a region of considerable growth and opportunity.

In this role, he led the team responsible for all supply chain functions across the Americas, sitting on both the Global Supply Leadership Team and the Americas Leadership Team.

Mayborn Group, proud owner of leading baby brand tommee tippee ®, has appointed Neal Austin as Global Supply Chain Director — a brand new role which adds additional weight to the company's executive board.

Erin's career with Disney culminated with an EVP role in 2011 - 2015 in which she led key operations and commercial functions for their global theme park business, across domestic and international properties.

My government will continue to play a leading role in world affairs, using its global presence to tackle climate change and address major international security, economic and humanitarian challenges.

My Government will continue to play a leading role in world affairs, using its global presence to tackle climate change and address major international security, economy and humanitarian challenges.

Our sector has taken a leading role at UK, European and global levels to ensure our products are used judiciously and responsibly.

He said, «with my global outreach initiative which is creating a new epic movement, I have been travelling out of my kingdom to visit other nations around the world to share our own stories, delivering academic lectures, re-charting the leading role of Yoruba nation in the world and to reignite the immortal Yoruba spirit of enlightenment as the glowing fountain of knowledge that gave birth to the world civilisation».

«The unmanned systems industry represents a $ 140 billion marketplace and this region is positioned to play a leading role in its global development,» Simpson said.

«We knew that forests have a role in regulating surface temperatures and that deforestation affects the climate, but this is the first global data - driven assessment that has enabled us to systematically map the biophysical mechanisms behind these processes,» explains Gregory Duveiller, lead author of the study.

In the long term, the results of the survey are expected to influence ongoing global conversations about the roles and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society, help clarify public expectations of scientists and engineers, lead to the development of materials for the education of scientists and engineers, and provide empirical data for consideration when developing specific recommendations on the nature and scope of the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has signed a memorandum of understanding with Australia's leading scientific organization, pledging to foster collaborations to enhance the role of science, technology, engineering and mathematics on the global stage.

«To not consider how microbes influence soil carbon in offsetting ways, promoting losses through enhanced decomposition but gains by protecting soil carbon, would lead to overestimates or underestimates of the role soils play in influencing global climate.»

«These experiments will enable us to further test and refine the underlying processes in the CORPSE model and should lead to improved predictions of the role of plant - soil interactions in global climate change,» Sulman said.

Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»

Nonetheless mature forests do play an important role in the global carbon cycle as stable carbon pools, and clearance of forests leads to an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

«It looks like predators in many types of ecosystems can play a big role in global climate change,» says Trisha Atwood of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who led the study.

In 2011 President of Israel Shimon Peres called on McKinsey & Company to examine how Israel can play a leading role in the global brain technology sphere.

He played a key role in the dramatic expansion of Roche oncology enterprise leading to Roche becoming the global leader in oncology.

Its role is to secure the region a leading position among global competitors in the field of intelligent technical systems.

It also highlights the global emergence of this field that the European Union has recently announced a new Science Advice Mechanism (SAM) and that UNESCO is taking a leading role in better connecting science to policy in the context of the Agenda 2030 and now carries a mandate to serve as the Secretariat for the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary General.