Sentences with phrase «senior policy official»

In addition to her academic work, Alexandra has over ten years of experience as a lawyer in Vancouver representing First Nations governments and as a senior policy official at the City of Toronto.

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The president prefers that changes not happen to 401 (k) plans, but the White House can not fully control the policy, a senior administration official told CNBC on Wednesday.

And in the days before Thanksgiving, senior U.S. officials from several agencies met at the White House to discuss the policy, according to current and former officials.

«His common sense approach to monetary policy and financial regulation are exactly what the Federal Reserve needs right now and we look forward to his confirmation» a senior Fed official told reporters in a conference call following the appointment.

But in a new administration that had not filled senior Latin America posts at the State Department or on the NSC staff, many officials said there was a vacuum of policy leadership on the issue.

«If I'm a senior official in Moscow, I'm feeling pretty good about this division and the public disarray on the US's Russia policy,» Kauzlarich said.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's metals tariffs had undermined European support.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

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.

Dickson's high - level policy - making seems to emanate from an ultra-exclusive bureaucratic club called the «heads of agencies,» which includes the governor of the Bank of Canada, the heads of the provincial securities commissions and senior Department of Finance 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.

Like Monday, traders have had plenty of speeches from senior Fed officials to glean further clues on its policy path.

But Axios's Jonathan Swan reported Wednesday night that a senior administration official said the signing wouldn't take place because lawyers are still reviewing the policy.

Delegates told me they worried the party is too autocratic, and when I asked a senior party official what he made of Saturday's policy debates, he said, «I haven't really been paying attention.»

Don McCutchan, an international policy adviser at the Toronto law firm Gowlings and a former senior federal official, calls Carney «tough, effective and the smartest guy in the room.»

On January 10, CNBC's Eamon Javers reported that a senior administration official told him with dismay that on infrastructure policy, «the president's inclination is just «spend money.

Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and one of the Trump administration's most senior economic policy officials, struck a similar note in his own farewell note about Cohn, saying he «never expected that the coworker I would work closest, and best, with at the White House would be a «globalist.

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

Webcast live, the invited audience included academics, other central bankers, private sector economists and financial market experts, labour union representatives, senior officials from government departments and Crown agencies, representatives from policy think tanks, and the media.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2012, Roosevelt was an associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he helped shape monetary policy by providing fixed income, foreign exchange and macroeconomic research to senior Federal Reserve officials.

With mounting uncertainty over the future of the North American free - trade agreement and more states eyeing possible Buy American rules, Ontario is keeping the policy ready in case it is needed, a senior government official told The Globe and Mail.

«CME has allowed us to connect with senior government officials, and work together with other manufacturers to improve government policies and programs to support our Canadian operations.

Previously, Cam served as senior economic advisor to the leader of Canada's official opposition and director of international policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

But one can hardly imagine a more damning indictment of President Obama and certain unnamed «senior administration officials» on his foreign policy team.

The law established at the State Department a very senior diplomatic official — the IRF ambassador at large — to lead in matters of policy, and to put the promotion of religious freedom at the center of American diplomacy.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Weigel's column is distributed by the Denver Catholic, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Denver.

The speech followed a pattern Dr. Bawumia has become notable for: a masterful blend of solid policy and hardcore politics that is often difficult to untangle by objective Ghanaians seeking to rely on the technocratic experience of the former senior Bank of Ghana official to make sense of Ghana's economic situation in an unbiased, non-partisan, manner.

The proposal is based on the federal government's email retention policy and would create standards for permanent preservation of records generated by statewide public officials, state lawmakers and those in senior agency positions.

Trump reshuffled his national security organization, removing his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, from a top policy - making committee and restoring senior military and intelligence officials who had been downgraded when he first came into office.

The research team, led by Dr Sarah Ayres, conducted interviews with senior Whitehall officials in which they found a growing awareness of the need to boost the competitiveness of England's economically weaker regions and to improve services through decentralisation and empowerment.Whitehall officials viewed the first round of RFAs in 2006 as generally positive - in particular, the main beneficiary had been the Department for Transport and transport policy.

One senior Lib Dem branded the speech a return to «dog whistle» politics, while government sources struggled to confirm whether reducing immigration to «tens of thousands» was official policy.

The speech threw coalition policy on immigration into disarray, with one senior Lib Dem branding the speech a return to «dog whistle» politics and government sources struggling to confirm whether reducing immigration to «tens of thousands» was official policy.

It is the deceit and secrecy about the origins of the Iraq War that have been most damaging to Blair's reputation with the connivance of those civil servants, intelligence officials and senior military who were drawn into his magic circle or remained silent rather than challenge his policy.

«The new policy will empower the Cuban people,» a senior White House official said.

Is she by any chance related to the lady who's been running «cozy, off - the - record briefings by senior Pentagon officials, fellow - neo-cons and fellow members of the Defense Policy Board (DPB) for select British and European reporters in exclusive clubs and cafes in London and Paris».

He rejected claims ministers and senior officials had not been held accountable for a series of failings, saying the government could only be held responsible for policy.

Officials in the Town of North Hempstead knew in May 2017 that former senior policy adviser Robert Troiano had debts totaling at least $ 800,000 but did not take corrective measures, according to documents obtained by Newsday.

Nonetheless, like former education secretary Justine Greening, and Cabinet Office minister Damian Green before her, she joins the growing ranks of senior Tory backbenchers with only thinly - disguised misgivings about the direction of official Brexit policy.

Many of these are government ministers or senior officials, whom committees hold to account for policy and performance.

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.

· Ensure that all senior officials and contract management staff receive up - to - date training in state procurement laws and office procurement policies.

De Blasio and his senior officials have repeated the argument on a near - daily basis over the last several weeks that support for mayoral control should not depend upon a certain mayor or set of education policies.

Furious Labour MPs accused senior officials of directly contradicting official party policy.

«It's only the first week here, so I feel like things are just getting going, but in the coming days we will help business leaders meet with lawmakers to help bolster the U.S. position, and to make sure the official U.S. delegation is bold,» says Anne Kelly, senior policy director at Ceres, a business and sustainability nonprofit.

Moniz received bipartisan praise today at a confirmation hearing held by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, with lawmakers touting his past experience as a senior official at the Department of Energy (DOE) and his scholarly work on energy policy.

But a senior ARS official tells ScienceInsider that it was a poorly worded effort by career officials — not anyone appointed by Trump — to remind employees of a longstanding U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy on clearing statements that have policy relevance with senior officials before releasing them.

White has testified before Congress, briefed top Congressional staff and met with senior White House officials on a wide range of issues, including toxic chemical pollution, water quality, energy policy, food safety and farm bill reform.

A senior Israeli official, General Amos Gilad, the Israeli defence ministry's director of policy and political - military relations, who played a key role in forging the Israeli - Egyptian alliance, hinted at the two countries» close cooperation during a recent visit to Singapore.

Gerald W. Bracey, a senior policy analyst for the National Education Association, was asked to resign recently because he repeatedly expressed his private opinions in a manner that suggested he was speaking for the union, top officials of the N.E.A. said last week.