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For days, I was forced to sit in the “tiger chair,” a restraining device used to immobilize prisoners during long hours of questioning.
When they were discovered, she was stripped, tied to a chair, and forced to watch their murder by machete.
One genuinely visionary move was to ask Eleanor Roosevelt, a longtime feminist, to
chair
the first President’s Commission on the Status of Women.
It was a hugely rewarding moment for me personally as the
chair
of an independent review that has been calling for the creation of an innovation fund to address antimicrobial resistance since February.
Ukraine owes much of its economic strength today to Valeriya Hontareva, the former
chair
of the central bank who cleaned up the banking sector over the past three years.
He chose 17, appointing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a man widely acknowledged as South Africa's moral conscience, to
chair
the Commission.
That is why, in 2008, the Global Network Initiative (GNI), whose board I chair, developed a set of Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy.
Fortunately, the new Democratic
chair
of the House Financial Services Committee, Maxine Waters, has reportedly put these issues at the top of her agenda.
China’s Quiet Central Banking RevolutionBEIJING – Fifteen years ago, Alan Blinder, a former vice
chair
of the US Federal Reserve System and a longtime professor of economics at Princeton, wrote a book entitled The Quiet Revolution about changes in central banking.
The only other former Federal Reserve
chair
to become treasury secretary was G. William Miller in 1979, and he had spent only one year at the Fed.
Yellen, by contrast, previously served for two decades there – through good times and bad – with stints as staff economist, governor, president of the San Francisco District, vice chair, and
chair.
Some 16 years later, as a Fed vice chair, Yellen said that a good “benchmark rule should conform to the so-called Taylor principle, which states that, other things being equal, a central bank should respond to a persistent increase in inflation by raising nominal short-term interest rates by more than the increase in inflation.”
Then, in 2017, Yellen, as Fed chair, stated that the Taylor Rule “embodies key principles of good monetary policy,” and went on to explain the differences between what it prescribes and the Fed’s actual policies.
Three of the eight contenders are African: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister;Amina Mohamed, a Kenyan former
chair
of the WTO General Council; and Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh, a former Egyptian trade negotiator and WTO official.
As Hilary Benn, a former head of the DFID and now the
chair
of the Select Committee on Brexit, points out, “The people who are very good at spending [on development] ought to be the ones doing it.”
But then came President Jimmy Carter, who, after initially maintaining this approach, appointed Paul Volcker to
chair
the US Federal Reserve in August 1979.
Fifth, Richard Clarida, a well-respected economist and market expert, joined the Fed Board as vice
chair
in the fall of 2018, tipping the balance of the FOMC in a more dovish direction.
In Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future, George R. Lueddeke, the
chair
of the One Health Education Task Force, shows how public health can be incorporated into a wide range of fields to address individual, population, and ecosystem health.
Paul Volcker led a determined campaign to restrain double-digit inflation as the US Federal Reserve’s
chair
in the 1980s, and exerted a powerful influence over US economic policy for decades to follow.
When Volcker became Fed
chair
in August 1979, US inflation was again at double-digit levels – 11.35% – and rising.
It comes from a time when successive US administrations (those of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon) were desperate for a persistently high-pressure economy, and when the Fed
chair
(Arthur Burns) was eager to accommodate presidential demands.
But as the
chair
of Chatham House, I have been developing a more nuanced view of the issue, taking into account not just the economic dimension but also security, diplomacy, culture, and other factors.
By contrast, Trump’s earlier appointments to the Fed have been sound choices, in particular Jerome Powell, the current
chair.
The International Economic Policy GameTOKYO – Until relatively recently, specialists in international relations had little interest in game theory; some were even “frightened” to hear the term, as the
chair
of one of my presentations put it to me several years ago.
According to Andrea Enria, the
chair
of the European Central Bank’s Supervisory Board, non-performing loans could reach €1.4 trillion ($1.7 trillion) in the eurozone as a result of the current crisis.
As the CEOs of Danish corporations with a global presence in renewable energy, water technology, and pharmaceuticals, respectively, we have been appointed by the Danish government to
chair
public-private “climate partnerships” created to pursue climate-policy goals.
The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), which I chair, believes that the BEPS process has achieved what it could, given the political muscle of big corporations and the army of lawyers and accountants who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Arrested DiplomacyCANBERRA – On November 19, Carlos Ghosn, the board
chair
and former CEO of Nissan, was arrested at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on suspicion of under-reporting income and misusing corporate funds for personal purposes; he remains in custody.
One reason the Fed responded so promptly and effectively after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 was that its chair, Ben Bernanke, had spent much of his career as an economics professor studying monetary policy mistakes made during the Great Depression.
Last year, the Indian Parliament’s Standing Committee on External Affairs (which I chair) issued a report on Sino-Indian relations that took the Modi government to task for being “overtly cautious” (sic) about China’s sensitivities and argued that India cannot continue with its “deferential foreign policy towards China.”
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