Sentences with phrase «policy adviser david»

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.

The panel focused on the 2002 memo from his foreign policy adviser David Manning, outlining the then prime minister's commitment to «regime change».

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David Laws was a senior Lib Dem policy adviser, MP and Coalition minister.

On the trip with Cuomo were: New York National Guard Director of Domestic Operations Col. Robert Mitchell, National Guard Logistics Officer Maj. Jim Green, state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Deputy Commissioner Kevin Wisely, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, Cuomo Counsel Alphonso David and Kamilah Smith, Cuomo's policy adviser for statewide initiatives.

Mr Geldof is an adviser on David Cameron's globalisation and global poverty policy group, and today the Tory leader said he was «passionately committed» to an «ambitious policy programme on international development».

David Axelrod, former adviser to President Barack Obama, hit back Tuesday against Hillary Clinton's recent criticism of Obama's foreign policy.

«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.

Chief policy adviser to David Cameron Oliver Letwin - once referred to as the Gandalf of the leader's circle - is known to believe that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way.

David Cameron has no equivalent of the Policy or Strategy Boards that ensured that MPs rather than advisers «owned» the big political calls.

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.

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.

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.

Sean Worth from the think - tank Policy Exchange, who was formerly a special adviser to David Cameron, has told BBC News: «The evidence shows that grammar schools do work, but they under - represent the poorest children.»

The campaign has been devised with the help of Rachel Wolf, a former adviser to David Cameron, and James Frayne (pictured right), former director of policy and strategy at influential think tank Policy Excpolicy and strategy at influential think tank Policy ExcPolicy Exchange.

But the administration has now lost almost everyone capable of that work: A top international environmental policy adviser, George David Banks, resigned in February.

As chief counsel and principal legal adviser to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Alphonso David oversees all significant legal and policy deliberations affecting New York State.