Sentences with phrase «policy adviser who»

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.

He is a leading economist, fund manager and policy adviser who has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the RBA, and was a director of the Menzies Research Centre.

That is not the job of scienti c policy advisers who might be tempted to simplify the situation, thereby pre-determining the complex value judgements.

Not exact matches

An adviser who earns a flat fee - such an hourly rate or a set percentage of your portfolio value - is much better aligned with you than an adviser who earns commissions for selling you particular mutual funds, insurance policies, or other products.

Kelly also has clashed with Trump's son - in - law and adviser Jared Kushner, who had his security clearance downgraded after a policy change written by the chief of staff.

«The commercialization of LEO (low Earth orbit) is an exciting prospect, but it will be an exercise in determining what ideas are more real than others,» said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

Trump is set to meet Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy special adviser under Obama who helped shape the Affordable Care Acton, at the White House on Monday, along with Ryan and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

The move came after Miller was revealed to be a senior aide who had an email exchange with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who mentioned «interesting messages» from Moscow.

North American stock markets had fallen sharply in late - morning trading following the departure of a top economic adviser in the White House who had been the leading internal opponent to the president's planned protectionist policies.

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.

The departure of Mr. Porter, who organized weekly trade policy meetings and coordinated the trade advisers, has helped fuel a chaotic situation that has descended into an all - out war among various trade advisers, people close to the White House said.

All along, there has been a camp of advisers in the administration who have been pushing for tariffs and other «tougher» trade policies — including White House aide Peter Navarro and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

Some went to high - profile, high - pressure jobs like Robert E. Rubin, a former senior partner, who is now one of President Clinton's trusted policy advisers as the head of the National Economic Council.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

And although they are familiar with the American delegation's main players, they are less acquainted with who does what among lower - level advisers and officials when it comes to United States trade policy.»

But Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his former aide, Stephen Miller, who is now the president's top national policy adviser, have been pushing Mr. Trump to end the program.

«I don't understand what anybody thinks we gain by taking away people's ability to work and subject them to deportation,» said Cecilia Muñoz, who helped create the program as the chief domestic policy adviser to Mr. Obama.

But at best the story can seem frivolous, and at worst it can feel like a distraction from the damage done by Trump's policy decisions (like, most recently, appointing a man who has called for war with both North Korea and Iran as national security adviser).

Over the objections of his aides and advisers — who urged him to focus on policy and the broader goals of his presidency — the new president issued a decree: He wanted a fiery public response, and he wanted it to come from his press secretary.

One of the three charged, former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, admitted to making a false statement to FBI investigators who asked about his contacts with foreigners claiming to have high - level Russian connections.

Among top - level appointees, Trump has now turned over a chief of staff, a chief strategist, two deputy chiefs of staff, a national security adviser, two deputy national security advisers, a staff secretary, a longtime personal aide and a deputy assistant to the president who was a foreign policy adviser.

Michael Pyle, a former economic aide in the Obama administration who works at BlackRock, is an unpaid adviser to the campaign on finance policy.

Interestingly enough, the petition has been signed by one former CFTC commissioner, Michael Dunn, who is also the senior policy adviser at the firm, along with partner Micah Green.

The Washington Post counts 37 high - level Trump aides or advisers who've resigned or been fired, including a chief of staff, multiple agency heads, and — importantly, given the administration's need to build a bench for its future — deputy directors of the National Economic Council, the National Security Council, and the Domestic Policy Council, as well as multiple deputy chiefs of staff.

The FBI watched Page, who was a foreign policy adviser to Trump, for almost a year beginning in October 2016.

Mueller also unsealed a guilty plea in October from former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who admitted to lying to federal investigators about meetings in which he discussed potentially colluding with Russian agents to acquire Hillary Clinton's private emails.

The Trump adviser in question is George Papadopoulos — a foreign policy adviser to the campaign who, it was revealed in a document unsealed Monday, had been arrested back in July for making false statements to the FBI, and now appears to have made a deal to cooperate with Mueller's probe into Russian interference.

Yesterday, Kass, who also serves as the senior policy adviser on Healthy Eating Initiatives, told a conference of 400 chefs and children's health / anti-hunger advocates that the White House remains excited and optimistic about the bill's prospects during the next session in November.

We might expect such statements from our politicians, who employ political advisers to find such examples to help them sell controversial and unpopular policies to the public.

Many of the transfers overall involve no change in pay, including the $ 150,000 annual salary of senior policy adviser Matt Coleman to serve as a research assistant with the waterways department, and Santino's secretary, Roseanne Scandiffio, who will continue to be paid $ 119,000 as secretary to the town attorney.

To make sure that we represent the science accurately, we have a board of seven expert advisers from a variety of fields (including economics, medicine and policy) who review all of our publications, provide us with guidance, and occasionally collaborate on joint research projects.

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Fuleihan, who touted de Blasio's progressive agenda in his introductory remarks, served as the principal fiscal and policy adviser to the Assembly and the majority conference, and as the Assembly's top staff negotiator, according to a biography the de Blasio team distributed.

Matt Stoller, who was a prominent blogger for OpenLeft before becoming a policy adviser to Rep. Alan Grayson, says this kind of video breaks through online partly because the traditional media has left an information void.

Michael Kink, a former senior policy adviser to the Senate Democrats who now works for a labor - backed coalition, said some of the «dead wood» has been cleared from the conference.

Vince Cable is a «Socialist» who should never have been put in charge of business policy, No 10 adviser Beecroft in @telegraph interview

Bossert, who was a former deputy national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, had overseen the Trump administration's response to the Hurricane Maria disaster in Puerto Rico, as well as cyber security policy.

Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, who helped craft President Bill Clinton's second - term foreign policy and got in trouble over mishandling classified documents, has died, a spokesman for his consulting firm said.

De Peyer is a former aide to Vince Cable who was Alexander's top policy adviser throughout his five years as chief secretary to the Treasury.

Number 10 is building a strong team of advisers who are being recruited on an almost daily basis to the policy and delivery units.

She said she would be working in Albany, New York City and Washington, D.C.. Also Tuesday, Mercury announced it hired Alexandra Greene, who most recently served as senior policy adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Gurmaj Dhillon is a former Treasury official who recently served as an adviser to the Conservatives on police reform and youth justice policy.

Lord Adonis who is already an industrial policy adviser should become leader of the Labour party in the House of Lords.

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Former DNC official Laura Santucci will serve as the transition's executive director; and Ursulina Ramirez, who served as deputy public advocate and senior policy adviser to de Blasio, will serve as deputy executive director.

Heidi Alexander, who quit as shadow health secretary last weekend, has criticised John McDonnell's «totally unacceptable» conduct in setting up a team of NHS policy advisers without telling her.

The winner of the 36th Senate District primary in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will likely fill the seat left vacant by former Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, who in July resigned from her post to work for Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a special adviser for policy and community affairs of state Homes and Community Renewal.

It is utterly remarkable for Jim Malatras, who served as chief policy adviser and state operations director for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to claim that he repeatedly told lobbyist Todd Howe (who pleaded guilty to felony charges concerning bid - rigging) to send his emails to Malatras» official business account and not, as he did a dozen times in violation of state policy, to his private email («Public matters, private emails,» Dec. 31).

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for one, tried to weigh in on schools by creating the post of senior education policy adviser — dubbed «education czar» by some — and filling it with Manuel Rivera, the Rochester schools superintendent who had been National Superintendent of the Year in 2006.