He is also an independent consultant and adviser to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, an international- development organization focused on Afghanistan.
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The World Gold Council is a market-development organization for the gold industry.
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The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, an international organization with 30 member countries, including the United States, recently released a report listing 10 cities that face the highest risk from flooding right now: Mumbai, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Miami, Ho Chi Minh City, Calcutta, greater New York City, Osaka-Kibe, Alexandria and New Orleans.
Jane Perdue is CEO of Braithwaite Innovation Group, a female-owned professional development organization.
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Indeed, emerging economies--defined here as those not included in the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development--now make up more than half of the world's economic horsepower.
In 2010, working together with our development organization we delivered world-class showcases featuring the Sybase Unwired Platform, SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA), Enterprise Workspaces, Duet Enterprise, SAP NetWeaver 7.3, Aurora, Carbon Impact 5.0, as well as SAP StreamWork Enterprise Edition.
He is also the founder of Instituto-E, a non-profit organization in Rio de Janeiro promoting sustainable human development through its e-brigaders, groups of young people working for sustainable development, environmental protection and social inclusion.
Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, AMD, HP, and Microsoft have piloted internationally agreed-upon due diligence guidance on conflict minerals in line with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development due diligence model.
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Miliband plans to continue his role at the club despite deciding to move to the United States, where he will work for the International Rescue Committee -- a humanitarian relief and development organization.
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The USGBC is a leading non-profit organization known for its development of LEED, a global green building program, and its large diverse community.
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As someone who works in the non-profit sector running an economic development organization in Northeast Ohio, I found this concept worth exploring for both business and social sector leaders.
Plainly, South Korea is serving notice that it is now Asia's newest developed country, even as it prepares to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - the rich nations' club - next year.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group -- part of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen -- isn't hopeful about the development of an effective and safe weight-loss drug.
Bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently conjured a problem to justify a new assault on tax competition.
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And no wonder: Last year, more than 16 million sun seekers flocked to the area, which reaches as far north as the Bahamas and as far south as Guyana, according the Caribbean Tourism Organization, a public-private development group.
Though productivity in France is higher than Germany's and close to that of the U.S. according to 2011 data from the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, tough labor laws make it expensive to fire permanent workers.
Similarly, that February the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued a study lowballing the dimension of the local-debt situation.
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Brazil's economy grew 4.7 per cent year-on-year between 2004 and 2008.
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, both the U.S. and South Korea now put 2.6% of GDP into higher ed.
"Frankly, it has nothing to do with supply and demand there -- these are geopolitical situations, " Angel Gurria, head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, told CNN.
Hong Kong and Singapore, incidentally, also share the less flattering distinction of having previously been dubbed as tax havens by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).
Because the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) did a study not long ago about the nations with the greatest social mobility, and the list reads shockingly close to the one Chris quoted.
Highlighting the importance of this Conference, Mr Michael Forbes, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Ireland to UNESCO and to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), underlined that UNESCO is the right place for this debate.
Unfortunately this is also one vice where the U.S. is near to the top of the lists, as America now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world at 34%, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
The proposed Protocol amends the existing Convention in order to bring it into conformity with current international standards on exchange of information, as reflected in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital and the current U.S. Model Income Tax Convention.
There is no clear correlation between economic growth since the 1970s and top tax-rate cuts across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.
Figures from the Organization for the Economic Co-operation and Development show that France is riding high in the top ten of the most productive European countries.
Fast forward to this year when I met with Claire Charamnac, the 23-year-old cofounder of Women LEAD, a leadership development organization for young women in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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While 39 states and the District of Columbia offer state funded pre-school, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that the United States ranks 28th out of 38 countries for the share of four-year olds enrolled in early childhood education.
Youth-led global organization AIESEC truly embodies leadership and entrepreneurship development.
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