Sentences with phrase «led general director»

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a leading candidate to be the next World Health Organization director - general, is facing a stunning allegation: covering up three cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia while he was its health minister.

According to Bloomberg News, he will lead the search for a new CEO along with a group of directors that includes the former Dollar General and VF Corp CEOs, Rick Dreiling and Eric Wiseman respectively, two of the most respected and successful retail leaders of the last few years.

As Director General for Defence and Intelligence in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, he was the lead adviser on counter-proliferation and other defence policy and intelligence areas.

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The Lead Independent Director and our General Counsel then report the results of these interviews at meetings of the nominating and corporate governance committee and our board of directors, where the results are discussed.

While it may seem odd that Guillen jumped from Sales and Service to leading the development of an all - electric semi-truck, it's worth noting that before joining Tesla, he was Director of Business Innovation at Daimler and General Manager of Freightliner (Large manufacturer of class 8 diesel semi-trucks, owned by Daimler).

South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted sources as saying that Choe Son - hui, director - general of the North America bureau chief of the North Korean foreign ministry, was leading the delegation from Pyongyang, while Suzanne DiMaggio, director and senior fellow at Washington DC - based think tank New America, was heading the American delegation.

More comic relief came came from Instagram Creative Shop Global Director Kay Hsu and Global Creative Lead at Facebook Tim Styles, who fielded questions from the general audience while making emoji faces and changing hairstyles multiple times.

Oliver Cockcroft, Product Architect, Ayla Networks Casper de Clercq, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners John Gardner, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners Kenneth Wacks, President, Home, Building & Utility Systems Discussion led by Jennifer Kent, Director, Research Quality & Product Development, Parks Associates

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The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

(From L to R) John Miller, chief executive officer, American Red Cross on Long Island, Rebecca Nelson, lead development officer, American Red Cross on Long Island, Tim Magorrian, area director, Doherty Enterprises, and Scott Rudin, general manager, Doherty Enterprises.

Ian Wright, Director General of the Food and Drink Federation, tells us why a sugar tax isn't the answer to the obesity crisis together with his views on the role of Government in leading the war against obesity.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Meanwhile the general term «human milk feeding» is used by researchers and administrators to describe both mother's own milk and donated milk (or combinations of the two) despite the fundamental differences in the two, according to the lead author, Paula Meier, PhD, Rush University Medical Center's director for Clinical Research and Lactation, Special Care Nursery and a Professor of Pediatrics and Women, Children and Family Nursing.

Ladoja who spoke through the Director - General of his campaign organization, Hon. Adeolu Adeleke, during a press conference in Ibadan, said the dismissal of his petition by the Justice Muhammed Mayaki - led election petitions tribunal, did not come as a surprise, but rather a confirmation of the boasts by Ajimobi at different fora, that he had already secured victory.

New director - general George Entwistle seemed hopelessly out of his depth, and his failure to keep a clear eye on the ball eventually led to his resignation.

The ministry official, who is the Director of Public Relations and Protocol, Dama NPD, said the N13million loan request made to the Acting Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was to enable the Minister lead a delegation of other five officials of the ministry to cover the ticket, hotels and other logistics to attend the United Nations World Tourism Organisation conference in conjunction with the Government of the People's Republic of China, under the overall theme «Tourism for Peace and Development.»

Director General, National Broadcasting Commission requesting for a loan of N13, 120,470.00 to cover tickets and travel expenses of a five - memberdelegation being led by the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to Beijing, China, which was mischievously leaked to the social media by staff of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

NAN also reports that Oando issue led to the suspension of Mr Mounir Gwarzo, former SEC Director - General by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun.

The two - member NDC delegation that is participating in the high level Dialogue, is led by, comrade Koku Anyidoho, Deputy General Secretary in - charge of Operations, and he is accompanied by, comrade Dr. William Ahadzi, Director of Research as well as Acting Rector of the NDC's Party School.

Wisconsin state director of Obama for America in the general election; during the primaries Kanninen took leave from his position as chief of staff to Sen. Robert Jauch (D - Poplar) to work on the campaign in WI, OH (early vote lead) and NC (deputy political director and GOTV political director).

Like former Senator Adetunmbi, the other lead speakers, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, famed public intellectual and founding vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State (the South West critique) and Dr. Charles Akinola (who as director - general, Osun Office of Economic Development and Partnerships, is the policy wonk strutting the Osun safety - net programmes), discharged themselves creditably.

In his welcome address, the Director General, Office of Economic Development and Partnerships and Coordinator, Osun Rural Enterprise and Agriculture Programme, Dr Charles Akinola, said the purpose of the visit to the state was to provide a platform for interaction and deliberation on the protection, care and empowerment of children, women and marginalized groups through social protection initiatives of Governor Aregbesola led administration in the state.

The Director - General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has suggested a legal framework that prescribes stiff sanctions, vigilant military - led patrols and better intelligence gathering to...

L - R: Deputy Director, Training, Mr Ifenayi Agoha, Los Angeles County's Chief Election Official, Dean Logan, External Member, The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Kole Shettima, Acting Director General, TEI, Dr Sa'ad Idris, Lead Facilitator, Conny McCormack, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Adedeji Soyebi and Deputy Director, Research and Documentation, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu take time off for a group photo at a professional training in Elections, Electoral Data Management, Storage and Analysis, which began on 14th December in California, United States.

The APC leaders at the event were led by the senatorial leader of the party in Edo South, Gentleman Amegor and the Director General of Obaseki Campaign Osarodion Ogie.

The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Muhammad Sani Sidi, disclosed this when an African Union Humanitarian Mission led by Dr. Aisha Laraba Abdullahi, Commissioner Political Affairs, visited the Headquarters of the Agency at the weekend.

All the 23 Director - Generals of APC Campaign in 2015 across the 23 local government areas of Kaduna State have expressed fear that the crisis rocking the party may lead to its doom in 2019 general elections.

According to Gerald Benjamin, the director of the Benjamin Center at SUNY New Paltz and a leading expert on state constitutions, especially New York's, the Attorney General «was empowered without the constitution,» but instead in common law, to become what it is today.

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Passions ran high: Immunologist Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, director - general of the Indian Council of Medical Research here, warned of «chaos and confusion leading to anarchy» if the rules were implemented without amendments.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

Mark Ferguson, director general of the funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), says the projects were first reviewed for scientific excellence by a panel of leading international researchers.

ITER Director - General Bernard Bigot plans to lead a delegation to Tehran as early as next month to begin formal talks on ties that, Iranian science officials hope, will boost the nation's fusion program and expose Iranian experts to global norms in science.

Physician David Nathan, director of the diabetes center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, notes in an email message that «what is ironic here is that [free radicals are] generally thought to be bad in human diabetes,» because they lead to dysfunction in the cells that make insulin and vascular complications.

A team of seven or eight scientists led by Keiji Fukuda, assistant director - general for health security at WHO, should arrive in Seoul this weekend, Ben Embarek says.

Meanwhile the general term «human milk feeding» is used by researchers and administrators to describe both mother's own milk and donated milk (or combinations of the two) despite the fundamental differences in the two, according to the lead author, Paula Meier, PhD, Rush University Medical Center's director for Clinical Research and Lactation, Special Care Nursery and a Professor of Pediatrics and Women, Children and Family Nursing.

The investigation was led by Kjell Asplund, professor emeritus in medicine at Umeå University in Sweden, chairman of the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics in Stockholm, and former director general of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, also in Stockholm.

«The elderly living in long - term care facilities have higher influenza exposure risks, lower immune defenses and a much greater likelihood of flu - related death than the general population,» said lead author David A. Nace, M.D., M.P.H., director of long - term care and flu programs in Pitt's Division of Geriatric Medicine and chief medical officer for UPMC Senior Communities.

This discrepancy led the legal office to conclude it «could not advise the Director General to use the funds currently in UNESCO accounts for the implementation of the prize.»

The risk of a febrile seizure following the MMR is approximately one case in 3,000 doses for children aged 12 to 15 months but one case in 1,500 doses for children aged 16 to 23 months «This study adds to the evidence that the best way to prevent disease and minimize side effects from vaccines is to vaccinate on the recommended schedule,» says Simon Hambidge, lead author of the study and the director of general pediatrics at Denver Health.

«Hospital - based clinicians frequently treat patients with acute pain, and although opioids may sometimes be beneficial in this setting, they do carry the risk of adverse events including inadvertent overdose and physical dependence,» said lead author Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, Director of Hospital Medicine Research in BIDMC's Division of General Medicine and Primary Care Sections of Hospital Medicine and Research.

An external audit of the WHO's finances has found «shortcomings» in the way it used its funds during the year leading up to the re-election of its Japanese director - general, Hiroshi Nakajima.

ICGEB Director - General Mauro Giacca receives ERC Advanced Grant for his research in cardiac regeneration to potentially lead to innovative treatments to induce heart regeneration

On May 15 Dr. Kaleebu and Dr. Kihumuro Apuuli, Director General — Uganda AIDS Commission, held a press conference and led ecumenical prayers at leading places of worship.

A team led by Sekar Kathiresan — founder of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, institute member and co-director of the Medical and Populations Genetics Program at the Broad Institute, and director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital — and Rajat Gupta, a postdoctoral research fellow in Kathiresan's lab, recently revisited this spot in the genome to map it and determine the mechanisms by which one DNA variant could affect so many disorders.

IRRI, led by its Deputy Director General for Research, Dr. Jacqueline Hughes, receives the Golden Leaf Award from Conviron.

Led by James Pollard, UNLV's program director for the partnership, the joint venture ensures that 16 UNLV researchers can continue studying and developing the best information - management systems for collecting, compiling, and distrib - uting data to policy makers, researchers, inter-est groups, industry, and the general public.

The Daily Blog — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.