Sentences with phrase «research committee chairman»

That bothers Arne Ljungqvist, the world agency's health, medical, and research committee chairman, who doles out several million dollars in grant money every year to research groups looking at gene doping and its detection.

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John C. Coffee, Committee Chairman, noted: «Professor Frankel has dedicated her life to researching and teaching fiduciary law.

Mr. Snyder, chairman of the American Cartographic Association's Committee on Map Projections, is also a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Mr Rayner is also a director of Qantas Airways Limited (since July 2008 and where he also serves as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee), Boral Limited (since September 2008 and where he also serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee) and a director of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (since December 2014 and where he also serves as Chairman of the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee).

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

NCC's Executive Vice Chairman, Umar Garba Danbatta made the declaration on Wednesday while inaugurating an Inter-agency Committee for the Evaluation of 2017 research proposal from the academia.

A five - member National Elections Committee comprising Rev (Prof) Samuel Asante - Antwi (chairman), Hackman Owusu - Agyemang, Madam Agnes Okudzeto (former national third vice chairperson), Ursula Owusu - Ekuful (MP for Ablekuma West) and Evans Nimako (acting director of research and elections), has been put in place to oversee the conduct of the NPP national elections.

Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.

The participants are: National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi (Team Leader), Acting Director General, The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Sa'ad Umar Idris; Deputy Director, Research and Documentation, Mr. Emeka Nwachukwu; Deputy Director, Electoral Training, Mr. Ifeanyi Agoha and an external member of the TEI, Dr Kole Shettima.

L - R: Deputy Director, Training, Mr Ifenayi Agoha, Los Angeles County's Chief Election Official, Dean Logan, External Member, The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Kole Shettima, Acting Director General, TEI, Dr Sa'ad Idris, Lead Facilitator, Conny McCormack, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Adedeji Soyebi and Deputy Director, Research and Documentation, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu take time off for a group photo at a professional training in Elections, Electoral Data Management, Storage and Analysis, which began on 14th December in California, United States.

In June, Paul E. Singer, a hedge fund manager who is the chairman of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Mr. Loeb each donated $ 1 million to the organization's political action committee.

A five - member committee, comprising Rev. Prof. Samuel Asante - Antwi (Chairman), Mr Hackman Owusu - Agyemang, Madam Agnes Okudzeto (former National Third Vice Chairperson), Ursula Owusu - Ekuful (MP for Ablekuma West) and Evans Nimako (acting Director of Research and Elections), has been put in place to oversee the conduct of the national elections.

Tony Lodge is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and chairman of the Bow Group's Transport Committee.

AAAS Board Chairman Gilbert S. Omenn has written a letter to members of the House Judiciary Committee to express support for a pending bill that would strengthen laws against harassment, threats or intimidation of those involved in animal enterprises, including biomedical research with laboratory animals.

But Tsiri Agbenyega, head of the Malaria Research Unit at Komfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana and chairman of the RTS, S Clinical Trials Partnership Committee, remains optimistic.

And the chairman and top Democrat of the House science committee have asked the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the ability of five major federal research agencies, including NSF, to ensure that their grantees comply with Title IX.

Those offering support for Dr. Samadani's research include Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, The Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair and professor and chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at University of Washington Medicine and co-chair of the Head, Neck and Spine Committee of the National Football League.

As if to illustrate that point, Representative George Miller (D — CA), who chaired the 30 April hearing and represents the congressional district just north of Berkeley, commented that «as chairman of the [House] Education [and Labor] Committee and chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, I meet all of the time with leaders from the research - university community.»

Still, he said he has been heartened by comments from the House and Senate appropriations committee chairmen that Congress will provide additional funding for such research when it takes up spending levels for the remainder of fiscal 2017 next month.

The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee claimed yesterday he has new evidence showing that scientific research discrediting a purported pause in temperature increases was politically motivated.

But in Delhi the group's chairman, Ismail Serageldin, who is also the World Bank's vice-president for sustainable development, proposed establishing centralised committees, headed by the World Bank, to control funding, research and intellectual property rights.

In a letter to House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas), AAAS and over 70 other organizations urged lawmakers to protect the integrity of the scientific enterprise and to continue to allow NSF to evaluate and fund research proposals in all disciplines, based on...

«Physicians do use the database, but it's not yet common for them to use it for every prescription because it's still lacking a lot of information on pharmaceuticals,» said Lööf, chairman of the Drug Therapeutic Committee at the Centre for Clinical Research in Västerås, which works with local physicians to provide drug therapy strategies.

After the committee's quarterly meeting yesterday, Ronald Petersen, chairman of the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care and Services, tells Nature how his panel is helping to shape the fight against Alzheimer's.

House science committee chairman touts attacks on climate research before friendly audience

Prior to joining the State Department, Gunderson was an American Chemical Society - sponsored AAAS Congressional Fellow (2012 - 13) with the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources under Chairman Ron Wyden (D - Oregon), with a legislative portfolio focused on basic energy - science research and development, low - carbon transportation fuels, alternative fuel vehicles, and critical minerals / elements.

, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, on March 31 saying: «We strongly support the efforts of the federal government, such as the NIH mandate and the Federal Research Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded researchResearch Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded researchresearch.»

It shall be a part of the business of these general meetings to receive the Address of the President of the last meeting; to hear such reports on scientific subjects as, from their general importance and interests, the Standing Committee shall elect; also to receive from the chairman of the Sections abstracts of the proceedings of their respective Sections; and to listen to communications and lectures explanatory of new and important discoveries and researches in science, and new inventions and processes in the arts.

Data - quality issues, including the reanalysis and reprocessing of past observations, have become a topic in its own right in climate research, says Adrian Simmons, a senior scientist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK, and chairman of the GCOS steering committee.

Lee Gyung - Su, a research fellow at NFRI and a former chairman of the ITER Management Advisory Committee, says that Korea is desperately in need of the energy that fusion could provide.

Demands by a House committee chairman for all documents and communications related to research by a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distract from the reality of climate change and can have a chilling effect on scientific discovery, AAAS CEO Rush Holt and Carnegie Institution global ecologist Chris Field wrote in a 16 March op - ed for LiveScience, an online news site.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has been seeking documents regarding research that seemed to debunk the notion of a global warming slowdown or pause.

Moderated by: Hossam Badrawi, Chairman Nile Badrawi Foundation for Education & Development, former Chairman of the Committee on Education and Scientific Research, Parliament of Egypt Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch, Senior Programme Specialist Natural Sciences, UNESCO Aicha Bammoun, Programme Specialist, Science Directorate, ISESCO Paul Rübig, Chair, European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Liliya Hrynevych, Chairperson, Committee on Science and Education, Parliament of Ukraine Jesus Hurtado, Member of the Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, Congress of the Republic Peru Ninlawan Petcharaburanin, Advisor for the Committee on Science Technology National Assembly, Thailand Rana Dajani, Associate Professor, Hashemite University, Jordan; Visiting Professor, Yale Stem Cell Center and University of Cambridge

The discussion followed the familiar lines expressed by committee chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX) and others at least since 2013 that 13 federal agencies are involved in climate change / earth science research, while NASA uniquely is responsible for space exploration.

Ogawa - Yamanaka Prize committee members include George Daley, PhD (professor of hematology / oncology and director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston's Children Hospital), Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (chairman of Keio University Graduate School of Medicine), Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD (senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University), Srivastava, and Wernig.

He was the founding Chairman of the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium, Clinical Trials Core and now chairs the Multiple Myeloma Committee for the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (the former CALGB).

«We're recommending a tool that is based on reality,» said Robert T. Michael, the chairman of a 13 - member panel of sociologists that drafted the report for the National Research Council's committee on national statistics.

He is also chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K — 12 Edresearch associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K — 12 EdResearch, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K — 12 Education.

A well - respected education historian and author, she worked from 1991 to 1993 as assistant secretary in charge of research and improvement in the Education Department of President George H.W. Bush and served as counsel to then - Education Secretary Lamar Alexander (who is now the chairman of the Senate education committee).

He served on the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Multicultural African American Advisory Committee and as the National Chairman of St. Jude Partnership Initiatives, which raised more than $ 1.4 million dollars through the Sunday of Hope Program.

He is chairman of Capital Research Company and serves on the Capital Group Companies Management Committee.

He is chairman of the Fixed Income Management Committee and of Capital Strategy Research, Inc..

Robert W. Lovelace is vice chairman of the Capital Group Companies, president of Capital Research and Management Company, Inc., part of Capital Group, and serves on the Capital Group Management Committee.

On the recommendation of our Health & Research Committee and Chairman Dr. Neil O'Sullivan, we have chosen this rResearch Committee and Chairman Dr. Neil O'Sullivan, we have chosen this researchresearch.

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Letters between Dr. Anna M. Young, Chairman of the General Research Committee of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, and Dr. Meyer Bodansky, also a Chairman of the Chemistry Division of the cCommittee of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, and Dr. Meyer Bodansky, also a Chairman of the Chemistry Division of the committeecommittee.

He was a committee chairman in the Building Research and Advisory Board, (BRAB).

Introduced by Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (Tennessee), the bill provides for coordination of national research and development on water and efforts to ensure adequate water supplies in the future.