Sentences with phrase «policy director in»

I also encourage you to read an appraisal of the energy trust by Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director in the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution.

National Association of Head Teachers policy director in Wales Rob Williams said the results came with the biggest policy changes in education in a generation already under way.

But Sarah Archibald, education policy director in Olsen's office, was skeptical of the claim that there's virtually no support for voucher school choice in Green Bay.

But there was a consensus that Booker was integral in the selection of Cami Anderson as Christie's choice for superintendent, going to bat for her in the selection process after she had worked with him as a policy director in one of his mayoral campaigns.

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But Graham Barr, the director for Canada's multilateral trade policy division, remains hopeful the WTO will eventually force meaningful reductions in subsidies and trade barriers.

However, in a statement e-mailed to us, its director of public policy, Althea Erickson writes:

He previously served on the Board of Directors for the Biotechnology Industry Organization for nine years, where he was active in the policy areas of capital formation, bioethics, intellectual property and regulatory policy.

Nearly 4 million U.S. jobs have been lost since NAFTA took effect and since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, according to Robert E. Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washingtonpolicy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in WashingtonPolicy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

«To ignore market trends by impeding progress toward a cleaner energy future, on the basis of ignorance or ideology, makes no sense,» Nathanael Greene, director of renewable policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.

In addition to the president, the Coalition has booked a number of Trump administration officials, including Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and White House Director of Policy and Interagency Coordination Carlos Rosillo.

«When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach,» says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports.

While it is easy to point fingers and shame corporations for not offering paid leave to all employees, Katie Bethell, founder and executive director of PLUS told Fortune in an interview about an earlier version of the non-profit's report that «ultimately, solving paid family leave will require a national public policy.»

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

«There's no reason to think that the pace of economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not to hike.

Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling (PPP), told Business Insider in an email that the landline aspect did play a big part in the inaccuracy.

Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

«International investors have embraced the positive changes in the accessibility of the China A shares market over the last few years and now all conditions are set for MSCI to proceed with the first step of the inclusion,» Remy Briand, MSCI Managing Director and Chairman of the MSCI Index Policy Committee, said in a release.

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

Amazon's expansion in organic products through Whole Foods bodes well for the sector, said Nate Lewis, farm policy director at OTA.

Edgar also serves as the academic director for law and policy in Brown University's Executive Master in Cybersecurity program and a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

«If a business eliminates pollution controls in the workplace, you [may] have an increase in industrial accidents,» says Robert Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the left - leaning Economic Policy Instpolicy research at the left - leaning Economic Policy InstPolicy Institute.

«That's a rounding error in Texas» budget,» said economist Frederick Floss, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a New York - based think tank that has researched the issue of immigration and state economics.

He founded his company Weedmaps, a sort of Yelp for marijuana dispensaries, in 2008, and now serves on the board of directors for the National Cannabis Industry Association, the Marijuana Policy Project and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which most people know as NORML and for which he also serves as treasurer.

«I think Cuban is pretty competitive given his comparatively low level of name recognition at this point,» Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, told Business Insider in an email.

The hearing is set for September 20, and according to Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Compass Point, it will likely evoke memories of the 2013 London Whale hearing, where the bank's top brass were dragged up in front of lawmakers.

One common mistake entrepreneurs make in their business plans is to project that they will capture a certain percentage of the overall market for their product without fully explaining how they intend to do that, says Mark Steranka, director of planning and policy for Moss Adams» Consulting Group in Seattle.

Arguing against will be Patrice Lee, and director of outreach at Generation Opportunity, a limited - government activist and policy network for millennials, and Matt Welch, editor - in - chief of the libertarian magazine Reason.

«This is a testament of Singapore's inclusive diplomatic relations and effective foreign policy,» Philippe May, managing director of Arton Capital's Singapore office, said in a statement.

What stands in the way of rapid development are numerous boundary disputes, says Peter Harrison, director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

Additionally, when low - wage workers are paid more, they tend to immediately spend extra wages locally, says James Parrott, deputy director and chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York.

«We know that guests are increasingly seeking plant - based proteins for personal health reasons and / or to reduce their environmental impact,» said Sara Burnett, Panera's director of wellness and food policy, in the release.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Goverpolicy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Goverpolicy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and GoverPolicy and Governance.

«We're fairly confident the issues we identified will be addressed in the negotiations,» said Ed Brzytwa, director of global policy at the Information Technology Industry Council.

'' [Silicon Valley] runs the risk of being perceived as arrogant and entitled and super-wealthy and narrowly satisfying its own interests,» says Dan Siciliano, a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center, and executive director at the Program in Law, Economics, and Business at Stanford Law School.

It can result in unintended consequences, such as the possible stigmatization of female directors whom the policy is designed to promote.

Martin Moen, the director general at Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would be «very difficult to see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.

«It's pretty clear that caring for children is a barrier for women entrepreneurs,» says Jason Wiens, policy director for the Kauffman Foundation, citing a study that looked at men and women who had a PhD in a scientific field.

«The EPA has been overzealous and overreaching in their attempts to mitigate the inevitable environmental impacts of farming, said Will Rodger, director of policy communications, American Farm Bureau.

«This new policy is further testament that consumers and companies are aligned in shifting the egg and pork industries away from confining animals in cages,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director of the Humane Society of the United States, who has partnered with Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN) on the initiative.

The decision comes as policy makers including IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warn of a global trade conflict that could undermine the broadest world recovery in years.

«For many years, the U.S. was the best place in the world to go start a company,» says Jason Wiens, a policy director at the Kauffman Foundation.

E-mail has become so intrinsic to the way work is done at companies of all sizes, it's where most business records are stored, says Nancy Flynn, executive director of the ePolicy Institute, a Columbus, Ohio, an electronic communications consultant and author of a book on e-mail policies due out in December.

Brad Close, the NFIB's director of public policy in the House, said it was a straightforward piece of legislation to address the needs of entrepreneurs who use their personal credit cards for business.

Knight, a former Hill staffer who worked on the Bush administration's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, was promoted from her position as special assistant for tax and retirement policy to deputy director for policy in February, and was recently praised by the council's new head, Larry Kudlow.

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.

In an e-mail message Scott Sinclair, a director at the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, wrote that he suspects «these revelations call into question the validity of the distinction between foreign state - owned enterprises and private corporations underlying the recent changes to the Investment Canada Act.

«As a result [of the technical issue], certain posts with content that violated our policies were made visible to people visiting Marketplace,» Mary Ku, Facebook's director of product management, said in a prepared statement.

«Their driver monitor system isn't as good as some other systems in terms of assuring that someone is paying attention,» said David Friedman, Director of Cars and Product Policy and Analysis for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.

It adds to the recent spate of weaker data coming out of the eurozone and really underlines the fact that the ECB can afford to be a little bit patient in terms of ramping up its hawkish rhetoric when it comes to its QE policy, said Bipan Rai, director of foreign exchange strategy at CIBC Capital Markets in Toronto.