Indonesia's health minister has been appointed as chair for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria, the country's president is co-chairing a high-level panel advising the UN secretary general on the global development agenda, beyond 2015.
Dr Lander, a highly influential scientist in the US, was head of the human genome project and is co-chair of a high-level scientific committee advising President Obama.
The scientific chief of the American team is Thomas P. Monath, a top virologist and recently chairman of a high-level group that advised the Central Intelligence Agency on ways to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
Lord Patten has been recruited by the Vatican to sit, if not at the right hand of God then not so very far away, as chair of a high-level committee to advise Pope Francis on media strategy.
Paul Polman, the boss of Unilever, and Betty Maina, the CEO of Kenya Association of Manufacturers, were both members of the so-called "high-level panel" that advised the UN on post-2015 development goals.
For these reasons, I have called on the United Nations to promote a moratorium on these weapons, and to appoint a high-level panel to advise on whether LARs could be deployed in compliance with relevant international law and, if so, under which circumstances.
As members of a high-level panel tasked with advising the United Nations Secretary General on key areas of investment, leaders like Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and UK Prime Minister David Cameron will have the difficult task of balancing a number of competing and important global priorities like education, employment, water, and health at the group's final meeting.
High-level, donor funded experts advise developing country governments on technocratic issues, drawing on international best practice.
Pence's appearance at the NASA facility was tied to his role as the chair of the reestablished National Space Council, a "high-level group [that] advises the president and comprises the leaders of government agencies with a stake in space".
The drawback, he says, is that the high-level interagency committee that advises DSAT on these experiments works behind closed doors: "The process is opaque".
By Rudina Vojvoda NEW YORK, United States of America, 26 April 2013 – Members of the Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) gathered last week in Washington, DC, to advise high-level policy-makers on issues around education.
