Sentences with phrase «policy think tank»

Alan Durning, executive director of Sightline Institute, a social policy think tank in Seattle, says that while some cities may resist coliving due to concerns over high - density housing, the opportunities are plentiful.

Osler is a program partner of the Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) the preeminent global information policy think tank that works with regulatory authorities, policymakers, business leaders, civil society and other key stakeholders around the world to help frame and advance data protection law and practice through accountability - based information governance.

This is the first Canada - based working group of the Sedona, Arizona - based nonprofit law and policy think tank.

I had the opportunity to answer this question as a member of a panel discussion at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a Washington DC foreign policy think tank, two weeks ago.

Curry also references a report written by Nic Lewis for the anti-climate policy think tank Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which I wrote about here.

«Investors will look for company strategies that are attuned to the new game rather than the rhetoric of the old,» according to Chatham House, the respected policy think tank.

He is also listed as an expert for the Heartland Institute, a libertarian American public policy think tank [Source: DeSmogBlog]

Dr. Margo Thorning is senior vice president and chief economist with the American Council for Capital Formation and director of research for its public policy think tank.

Author: Andrea Tuttle, Ph.D., has attended UNFCCC COPs since 2007 as an observer for the Pacific Forest Trust, a policy think tank and land trust dedicated to keeping forest lands as forest.

Teryn previously served as Senior Advisor and Project Director at the Breakthrough Institute, a public policy think tank, where he co-authored several acclaimed reports on economic competitiveness policy, and founded the Breakthrough Fellowship Program.

The Energy Research Institute, the energy policy think tank arm of the powerful National Development and Resource Commission, recommended a range that was right in line with the announcement — 40 to 44 percent.

He earned a S.M. in Technology & Policy at MIT in 2014 and previously directed the Energy and Climate Program at the Breakthrough Institute, a public policy think tank.

Number one is Southern Co., which annually releases 172 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, according to the first - ever inventory of the world's 50,000 power stations, conducted by the Centre for Global Development, a Washington - based policy think tank.

National Canine Research Library is a canine behavior science and policy think tank.

A report by Education Sector, an independent education policy think tank in February 2012, shows that of all the students who take out loans for tuition, 30 percent drop out of school.

Kathleen Porter - Magee studies the state academic standards for the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank that generally supports vouchers, charter schools and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Likewise, researchers with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a nonpartisan education policy think tank, may have uncovered the secret ingredient to the state - level teacher unions» recipe for accumulating and perpetuating their political power.

Earlier this year, the Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank, found that students participating in state voucher programs are performing worse on assessments than similar students who remained in public schools.

Third Way: Third Way is a centrist public policy think tank that offers fresh thinking and modern solutions to the most challenging problems in the U.S.

«You've got these governors who understand the business argument for keeping Common Core,» said Michael Petrilli, executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank.

Joanna Farmer is an associate at the Grattan Institute, an independent public policy think tank focused on Australian domestic public policy.

Ben Jensen is director of the School Education Program at the Grattan Institute, an independent public policy think tank focused on Australian domestic public policy.

Charles Chieppo is a senior fellow, and Jamie Gass directs the Center for School Reform, at Pioneer Institute, a Boston - based public policy think tank.

You are also president of the education policy think tank, the Thomas Fordham Institute.

Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute, a conservative nonprofit education policy think tank, this week noted that, despite the gains made by Houston and the Broad finalists in raising achievement, students» overall performance in all those districts remained lower than many would hope.

As a public policy think tank, I'm sure that the Center for Michigan supports transparency in government and strong Freedom of Information Acts.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative - leaning education policy think tank associated with Common Core and the charter school movement, has released an interesting study, Three Signs a Proposed Charter School -LSB-...]

He has previously worked at the Grattan Institute, an independent policy think tank based in Melbourne, Australia.

A D.C. parent and education expert at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute (an ed policy think tank), Petrilli couples compelling research about the pros and cons of socioeconomically diverse schools with his own experience searching for a great «common school» for his sons.

Even the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy think tank that advocates school - choice, said of the amendment, «This provision will help a relative handful of affluent families who are already choosing private schools.

Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a center - right education policy think tank, wrote in a blog post last week, «if scores drop among low - income and low - performing students — the kids least likely to be comfortable with digital devices, especially in the fourth grade — that could signal that something went awry.»

That's «really important for making sure the gains that are made in preschool programs are sustained all the way up,» says Laura Bornfreund, senior policy analyst for early education at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank in Washington.

-- Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a leading education - policy think tank.

«Teach For America deserves a ton of credit for its longstanding commitment to continuous improvement,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank.

Washington — Seeking to refute the Bush Administration's contention that the United States spends more on education than its economic rivals, an economic - policy think tank issued a report here last week asserting that the U.S. spends proportionately less on precollegiate education than 13 other major industrialized nations.

The Mackinac Center is a center - right public policy think tank based in Michigan.

Over the last several years, I've spent a fair amount of time defending the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in my role as a senior fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education - policy think tank in Washington, D.C.. Now, given president - elect Trump's pledge to «end Common Core,» which he terms «a disaster,» I expect many more opportunities to defend high standards, at least for the foreseeable future.

My name is Mike Petrilli; I'm the executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right - of - center education policy think tank in Washington, DC that also does on the ground work in the great state of Ohio.

Additionally, Reville was the executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards - Based Reform, a Harvard - based, national education policy think tank that convened leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national standards agenda.

This boon for physicians, then, may be a bust for patients, says Kathryn Hinsch, founder of the Womens Bioethics Project, a public - policy think tank in Seattle.

His positions have included senior communications manager at Amgen, a major biopharmaceutical company; senior manager for worldwide R&D and medical communications at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.; and most recently senior communications director at a national health care policy think tank.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

The move is a first step towards establishing carbon trading markets in China and further evidence of the country's commitment to tackling climate change, says Felix Preston of Chatham House, a foreign - policy think tank based in London.

With an undergraduate degree in nursing and a master's in health promotion, completed in 1995, from TMDU, Moriguchi first worked at a health policy think tank in Tokyo and then in August 1999 joined the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology where he worked on policy issues related to drug evaluation and medical economics.

Dean Cheng, a research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, sees Chang» e 2's orbital gymnastics as part national pride, part scientific curiosity, and part political move: doing things at a First World level.

President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, is of the view that the 38 newly created local assemblies are needless.

President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has called on government to shutdown the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC).

Business leaders gathered with the public policy think tank the Empire Center to make the case to make the cap permanent.

Vice President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has called on the General Legal Council to rework the controversial Legal Profession Regulations, and re-submit same to parliament.

The BNI report was criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.