Sentences with phrase «policy director of»

Stuart Valentine, Chief Executive of Relationships Scotland, and Heather Lickley, Head of Network Services, received the award from Brandi Lee Lough Dennell, Assistant Policy Director of LGBT Youth Scotland.

Michael has a strong strategic policy background, with extensive experience in strategic social policy development and implementation, most recently in Canberra and previously as a policy director of the Western Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet from 2001 until 2008.

Previously, Rebecca has held roles including the General Manager of Policy and Programs at Alzheimers Australia, Deputy CEO of Australian Council of Social Service and a / CEO and Policy Director of Consumers Health Forum.

To alleviate my fears and concerns and clear up some confusion, Julie Kashen, Policy Director of Make It Work, was kind enough to answer some of my questions about parental leave.

I am Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi, my co-host, with us today is Carrie Severino, the Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network, and Attorney Michele Jawando, she is the Vice President for Legal Progress at American Progress.

Carrie is Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network.

I think that decision with Pryor probably would be the one that would fall into that category,» said Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative legal organization.

However, Katja Hall, chief policy director of the Confederation of British Industry, says: «The government has let the litigation genie out of the bottle by adopting US - style collective actions.

Helping us consider the nomination are two experts: Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network.

NRDC expressed frustration with the deal: «That was a signal of weakening,» said Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director of the National Resources Defense Council.

This guest post by Peter Bosshard, policy director of International Rivers Network, examines China's growing pains in its increasing role as an exporter of hydropower technology and expertise.

«The state of Maryland rose up in unity to stop fracking this spring,» Brooke Harper, Environmental Justice Chair of the NAACP Maryland State Conference and Maryland Policy Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, stated.

Includes Interviews with Dutch environmental attorney Jos Cozijnsen and Arjun Patney, policy director of the American Carbon Registry.

«Climate policy will play a major role in the campaign in specific (local) areas,» the policy director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Jordan Davis, told the National Journal in explaining how it will argue against President Obama's national climate plan in a handful of coal districts.

Bob Ward, policy director of The London School of Economics» Grantham Institute, who gave evidence for the report, welcomed its conclusion.

-- Ted Glick, Policy Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network

Oren Cass, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the domestic policy director of Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, said he was grateful that a carbon tax never made it into the bill.

David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resource Defense Council's climate program, described the White House's announcement as «a big deal.»

Jim Dipeso, Policy Director of Republicans for the Environment, endorses this approach, saying that it «makes use of market principles, by prodding the market to tell the truth about the costs of carbon — based energy through prices.

And the stakes are dire, according to Chris Clayton, agriculture policy director of DTN / The Progressive Farmer: «When that year hits where food production in two or three bread baskets around the world is short a little bit — 10 percent here, 15 percent there — the risk of political instability becomes huge.»

Probably the biggest grievance environmental justice advocates had with AB 398, according to Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, is a specific provision that prohibits California's Air Resources Board and local air districts from directly regulating carbon emissions by sources that are also subject to the state's cap - and - trade program.

Bob Ward, policy director of the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics, told the Guardian: «There needs to be a shift in BBC policy so that these news programmes value due accuracy as much as due impartiality.

David Doniger, climate policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the introduction of the Boxer - Kerry bill on Wednesday would signal the beginning of Senate debate on climate change.

«There's no time left to waste,» said David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate center.

Perhaps lesser known than direct policy support for energy storage and renewable technologies is the way California's network operator (CAISO) is starting to reconfigure how it procures demand response, with a positive impact for energy storage - and particularly behind - the - meter assets, as Ted Ko, policy director of Stem, explains.

Josefina Braña - Varela, Policy Director of WWF's Forest & Climate Initiative, said she supports the Chiapas government's decision to shut down the subsidy program and to focus its efforts on capacity - building for jurisdictional REDD, but she also wishes the message from the Chiapas government had been clearer.

# 219 zebra Part II «The economic base has shifted in a way that highly favors cities — and big cities — because it's now based on knowledge, on idea exchange, on agglomeration,» said Mark Muro, the policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.

RE «Part II «The economic base has shifted in a way that highly favors cities — and big cities — because it's now based on knowledge, on idea exchange, on agglomeration,» said Mark Muro, the policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.»

«It's more of the same: It's good that the long - term improvement trend is being shared among different economic groups and racial - ethnic groups, but we're not seeing closing in gaps,» said Kevin Carey, policy director of the D.C. - based think tank Education Sector.

[Republicans] are having a hard time reconciling the heightened anti-federalism in the caucus, [with] trying to craft federal policy,» said Kevin Carey, policy director of the think tank Education Sector.

«The bill as introduced represents a strong and critical step forward in supporting effective teachers across California and ensuring that every public school student has access to the great teaching and quality education that he or she deserves,» said Ben Austin, policy director of Students Matter, in an emailed statement.

Rob Williams, policy director of the head teachers» union NAHT Cymru said despite boys improving, the gender gap was still a «stubborn feature».

I think about the visits from the Policy Director of the New Teacher Project, and the former aide to New York City charter operator, Eva Moskowitz, who said she was moving to Portland and trying to set up a chapter of Democrats for Education Reform, the pro-charter, hedge - fund driven organization.

«The 2016/17 Report Card highlights the success of programs and discusses ways each program can improve to better serve students,» said Whitney Marcavage, author of the report and policy director of the American Federation for Children.

«One of the things that we have found out through our research is that there's only about seven schools [in Clark County] where a $ 5,100 voucher will actually cover full tuition,» said Sylvia Lazos, a professor at UNLV's Boyd School of Law and policy director of the group Educate Nevada Now!

Coming out of grad school I was recruited to be the education policy director of a start - up in Boston called Be the Change.

Still, there is at least some indication of Trump's ideas about higher education via an interview Inside Higher Ed conducted with Sam Clovis, the policy director of Trump's campaign.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

Amendment 2 «is a lawyer's dream» because of its vagueness, says Joshua Rosenau, programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which tracks efforts by groups that oppose evolution.

Cleaner air and water will come more quickly According to David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program, it took the benefits of the Montreal Protocol, which aimed to reduce emissions of ozone - depleting substances, years to come to fruition.

«If she's saying she supports them now that's great,» said Gabriel Sayegh, policy director of the Drug Policy Alliance Network.

Andrew Simms, policy director of The New Economics Foundation, dismisses all the economic models outlined in last night's chancellors» debate and suggests a new name for 11 Downing Street.

Ethan Geringer - Sameth, public policy director of Citizens Union, said two commissions create the impression city officials are working toward opposite goals.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

Ahead of today's budget, John Whiting, tax policy director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, previews the likely ups and downs in George Osborne's red box for Channel 4 News.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

Commenting on today's announcement of extra resources for tackling tax avoidance, evasion and fraud, John Whiting, Tax Policy Director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), said:

Policy director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund's"ThinkProgress.org» (a «progressive communications war room»), 2009 - 11.

«Until they make a commitment to updating the state's regulations and the legal framework, we would oppose them moving forward in New York,» said David Gahl, policy director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

Bill Hammond, health policy director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, wrote in a post on the Albany think tank's web site that the conflicting abortion policies could block or restrict New Yorkers from claiming tax credits under the GOP replacement plan.