Chair
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Indeed, just as Lahoud’s
chair
at the talks is vacant, so – in the eyes of the world and under the country’s 150-year old constitution – is Lebanon’s presidency.
According to a forthcoming report from the International Commission on Financing Global Educational Opportunity (the Education Commission), which I chair, members of this neglected majority lack the skills they will need to succeed in a quickly changing global labor market.
And there were proposals to nominate an independent board
chair
and change the shareholder-voting structure to reduce Zuckerberg’s influence.
“Juan got his wife Alice a real wooden
chair
for her birthday!”
But their daughter Mika got a reprinted
chair
made from the same old materials plus a little more, marking her growth from her last birthday.
We at the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (which I chair) have already recommended such a role for China, including in discussions with some Chinese policymakers.
To see the severe effects of a banking crisis, look no further than the 1930’s, a period that Ben Bernanke studied in detail before he became Fed
chair.
As former US Federal Reserve board
chair
Paul Volcker has observed, “virtually every post-mortem of the financial crisis cites the convoluted regulatory system [in the US] as a contributory factor in the financial meltdown.”
The functions of the fully integrated Financial Services Authority (of which I was the first chair) have been returned to the Bank of England or reallocated to the Financial Conduct Authority.
Cleaning Up Economic GrowthBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised that the G-8 meeting on July 6-8 at Gleneagles, Scotland, which he will chair, will focus on two of the most important and longstanding global problems—Third-World poverty and global warming.
Letting Killers Guard Human RightsIf it were not so profoundly sad, it would qualify as the sick joke of the millennium: Libya has been elected to
chair
the United Nations Commission on Human Rights!
To have Libya elected at this moment to
chair
the UN body responsible for human rights hardly helps support either the legitimacy or the moral authority of the world body.
At Tesla, investors are being urged to keep Musk only in his role as CEO, while bringing in an independent board
chair.
The question is whether Germany will respond by claiming that it “owns” Issing’s portfolio as well as his
chair.
Last year, an online petition with 8,000 signatures asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to remove a famous painting by Balthus, showing an adolescent girl sitting on a
chair
with a patch of her underwear showing.
For several weeks, Bachelet was blindfolded and strapped to a
chair
in the Villa Grimaldi detention center in Santiago as her captors threatened to kill her mother.
The newly appointed
chair
of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), Guo Shuqing, has pledged to look more closely at banks’ off-balance-sheet activities and conduct a rigorous audit of their risk assets.
The next
chair
of the G-20 will be South Korea.
As Barbara Novick, a vice
chair
of BlackRock, noted on a panel on corporate governance and ethics at this year’s Davos gathering, her firm looks carefully at whether the boards of companies in which BlackRock invests include people who are engaged and asking hard questions consistently throughout the year.
I spent several hours last year with the chief executive and
chair
of a bank who thought it unfair that investors were planning to vote against him holding both posts.
A central-bank version of the Vatican’s papal conclave would have a hard time deciding whether to send up the fumata bianca for Yellen or for Summers – or perhaps for someone else (another former Fed vice chair, Donald Kohn, now appears to be in the mix) with similar inclinations.
As the
chair
of the G20 for 2017, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been counting on the US to help drive a deep transformation in the global economy.
In last month’s fight against Citigroup’s successful effort to roll back Dodd-Frank, for example, Warren’s allies included the House Democratic leadership, the Independent Community Bankers of America, Republican Senator David Vitter, and Thomas Hoenig (a Republican-appointed vice
chair
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation).
The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity – which I have the privilege to
chair
– has issued an urgent call for an increase in education funding to a level of 4-6% of total humanitarian assistance.
One major area of disagreement is how to tax the foreign earnings of US multinational companies (MNCs), a disagreement highlighted by the recent proposals issued by Senator Max Baucus, the
chair
of the Senate Finance Committee.
Now, the
chair
of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin Hassett, is attempting to defend Congressional Republicans’ effort to slash corporate taxes by claiming that, when developed countries have done so in the past, workers gained “well north of” $4,000 per year.
In the summer of 2016, with his campaign lacking a leader, Trump made Bannon – a scruffy, scrappy former businessman who was then the executive
chair
of Breitbart News, a website preaching white nationalism – the campaign’s chief executive.
The current Fed chair, Janet Yellen, is unlikely to make a mistake.
As a result, the public has become increasingly bewildered as the unremitting questioning of the IPCC and its
chair
assumes almost witch-hunting proportions in some quarters.
Last January, the Business & Sustainable Development Commission, which I chair, estimated in its flagship report that companies could unlock $12 trillion globally in revenue and savings by pursuing sustainable business models.
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