The conveners of this week's Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development didn't choose Uruguay on a whim.
Over 100 people participated in the workshop, including five conveners of the STROBE initiative.
During the launch, the conveners of each of these clusters gave a broad outline of the key goals, intended outcomes, and estimated budgets for each of their clusters.
After helping to put together an evangelical council for Trump during the campaign, she is now, she explains to me, the convener and de facto head of a group of about 35 evangelical pastors, activists and heads of Christian organizations who advise Trump.
The International Conference on Media and Health Shiraz – 7 August 2014 Professor Lankarani, Head of the Health Policy Research Center, and Key convener of this conference Distinguished guests Ladies and Gentlemen Asalamu Alukum Wa Rahmat Allah It is a great pleasure for me to be with you this morning for the opening of the International Conference on Media and Health.
It was announced in June that Gavin Grant, Burson-Marsteller's European head of public affairs, is to act as convener of a new Lib Dem shadow communications agency.
In that meeting, the EU head of foreign policy, Cathy Ashton, acting as a convener of the six-nation negotiating group, handed the Iranians the latest offer from the international community in return for Iran accepting curbs on its nuclear programme.
Vanessa Trevelyan, convener of the association's ethics committee and head of Norfolk Museum and Archaeology Service, said, "Although disposal of items is not without risk, it is preferable to transfer items to an alternative home where they will be treasured, rather than retain material that is not supporting a museum's research, display or interpretation functions".
Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology and Program Head, MIT, one of the symposium conveners, spoke with CAST about digitality, past and present; MIT precedents for current work at the intersection of the digital and the material; and the unseen aspects of our material world.
"The debate over the deposit insurance scheme is that the larger banks that would contribute more feel as though they would be subsidizing smaller banks," said Andrew Sheng, a former head of Hong Kong's securities regulator who for the last 10 years has been the convener of the international advisory council of the China Banking Regulatory Commission.
Formerly Convener of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
