Sentences with phrase «special adviser on»

In the near term, Juan will continue to provide guidance to the WJP as a special adviser on developing projects and opportunities.

Mr. Stern said that was borne out by a study of global attitudes on climate change to be released Wednesday by the bank HSBC, where Mr. Stern is a special adviser on economic development and climate change.

After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane's personal fiefdom as a special adviser on the case.

At an event at HGSE on Tuesday, Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills, and special adviser on education policy to the secretary - general at OECD, who led this effort in coordination with countries participating in PISA and the OECD Secretariat, will introduce the OECD PISA framework and assessment strategy.

«We have seen that H3N2 viruses have been in fairly broad circulation in some of the countries there,» Keiji Fukuda, special adviser on pandemic to the director - general of the World Health Organization, said at a press conference today.

Dunlop was Cameron's special adviser on Scottish matters and worked for Margaret Thatcher's policy unit when the poll tax was introduced in Scotland.

In defiance of the shadow cabinet's collective support for triggering article 50, Roger Liddle, a former special adviser on Europe to Blair and now a peer, said Corbyn had failed to fight plans for a hard Brexit and instead marched his MPs through the division lobbies to vote for it.

DAILY POST reported that Saraki's special adviser on media and publicity, Yusuf Olaniyonu, regarded news of his principal running for president as false.

This became obvious owing to the announcement of the appointment and deployment of permanent secretaries by President Buhari's special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina.

Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that Governor Peter Obi will remain his honourary special adviser on finance until plans are concluded to bring him fully into his cabinet.

The Punch efforts to reach President Buhari's Special adviser on Broadcast Media, Shaban Ibrahim Sharada, for his reaction on the accusations failed, as his cell phone was not reachable.

Prior to the interment of the former special adviser on sports to Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode, a funeral service was held at the City of David, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Victoria Island.

Shiyanbola further implored Governor Abiola Ajimobi to appoint «a special adviser on Surveying and Mapping who would oversee the implementation of laws on Surveying and Physical Planning at the rural and urban levels.

Imam was also the special adviser on media to Tambuwal as then speaker of the House of Representatives, between 2011 and 2015.

He blasted the special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina for trivalizing such heinous crime.

Icahn, who was named an unpaid special adviser on regulations in December, has argued that Trump is under no obligation to take his advice.

According to a statement by Femi Adesina, his Special adviser on Media and Publicity, President Buhari will join other world leaders at the welcoming reception to be hosted by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and also hold a bilateral meeting with the UN scribe.

He was special adviser on European Affairs to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair (1997 — 2004) and chaired the Government's New Industry, New Jobs Advisory Panel in BIS (2009 - 2010).

Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

«The American strike on Shayrat air base in Syria is an appropriate response to [Assad's] mass homicide,» said Fred Hof, the director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former US special adviser on Syria.

The Prime Minister has called for there to be training for ministers and special advisers on how to handle quasi-judicial functions.

The party will call for all papers, correspondence and advice between senior officials and special advisers on decisions relating to the Windrush generation to be handed to the Home Affairs Select committee.

Not exact matches

Trump is set to meet Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy special adviser under Obama who helped shape the Affordable Care Acton, at the White House on Monday, along with Ryan and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch acted as adviser to the special committee of the Vizio board of directors on that deal.

Mueller's office's move to dismiss last week's charges against Gates appear to be in step with the plea deal the former Trump adviser coordinated with the special counsel's office, said Jens David Ohlin, a vice dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal law.

That the special counsel's team is exploring that possibility indicates that they clearly believe the president will test his powers as it relates to his advisers, Mariotti told Business Insider on Tuesday.

Anyone who had served as a promoter or material adviser on any deal dating back to January 2010 was required to file special forms, allowing the IRS to red - flag and scrutinize the transactions.

Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor and former unofficial «special adviser» to President Donald Trump, sold off nearly $ 31.3 million in steel - related stocks just days before Trump announced he would impose steep tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.

The special counsel has asked about the role of the adviser, George Nader, in White House policymaking, indicating that he is examining Emirati influence on the Trump administration.

Michael Caputo, a former communications adviser to the Trump campaign, met with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team on Wednesday as well as the...

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

Offers of briefings and even visits to shed light on an issue are often well - received as special advisers and Parliamentary researchers try to identify photo - opportunities and soundbites that will let their boss shine.

Tabling oral and written questions has a similar effect, as pressure mounts on policy officials and special advisers in a department to find answers, and to consider why so many questions are being asked on a particular issue.

Even more scrapping with special advisers took place over my exclusive on Tory councils attacking communities secretary Eric Pickles.

For now, though, the embarrassment persists, so much so that one ministerial special adviser interviewed for this feature declined to be named on the basis that his geekiness would embarrass his senior Conservative employer.

As I remember from my own time as a special adviser, this breathing space gives front - benchers the chance to catch up on new thinking and the issues which are likely to feature high on the agenda in the coming months.

Special adviser Kate Marley went from being on Pay Band 1 in 2014 — capped at # 54,121 — to earning # 65,000 in 2015, an increase of at least 20 per cent.

The 33 - year - old, a former Labour special adviser, last week kicked off his six - part television series Unspun on Dave with Labour grandee Alan Johnson his first guest.

Perrior was one of a clutch of special adviser appointments confirmed by Number 10 on Thursday evening.

It was rather more a «disappointed» word passed on from the Cabinet Secretary via my Permanent Secretary to me and my special advisers.

Twenty of the 48 names said to be on the list are serving or former special advisers, including an OBE for Thea Rogers, the former BBC producer turned chief of staff for George Osborne.

She said: «He's a great bloke and so on... but I don't believe someone who's been a special adviser and a pharmaceutical lobbyist is going to enthuse the base...

The shows will be fronted by Labour special adviser - turned - comedian Matt Forde and each will be recorded on the day before transmission, to ensure maximum topicality.

In her most recent special adviser posting, Porter worked for Liz Truss at the Ministry of Justice before heading off on maternity leave.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

O'Brien worked on ministers» special advisers, exploiting an awareness that Osborne had power to give or withhold government jobs.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama plans to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to help set up a new consumer protection agency created under the Wall Street reform bill, according to sources who spoke on condition of not being identified by name.

He writes: «Our relationship had soured to the point that he banned Lib Dem special advisers from physically entering the Department for Education, hid on one occasion in the toilet to avoid speaking to David Laws, and let loose his somewhat unhinged advisers to brief against me, and even against Miriam, in the press.