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unusual facts about private sector



Aga Khan Development Network

The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development with its affiliates, the Tourism Promotion Services, Industrial Promotion Services, and Financial Services, seek to strengthen the role of the private sector in developing countries by supporting private sector initiatives in the development process.

Bhopal Conference

Modern Dalit intellectual activists — notably, the journalist Chandra Bhan Prasad — had realised this and were campaigning for a strategy of "Dalit capitalism" that extended the requirement to reserve jobs into the private sector and also sought to empower Dalits by promoting an environment that would enable them to be business owners rather than reliant on others for employment.

British Indian Psychiatric Association

It currently has 400 psychiatrists of all grades working in NHS and Private sector.

Eduardo Serra Rexach

Serra has held positions in many companies in the private sector, including president of Telettra España (1998-1991) and Peugeot-Talbot España (1992-1996), founder and chairman Airtel Móvil (1994-1996), vice-president and president of Cubiertas MZOV (1989-1995), and chair of UBS Spain (2000-2006).

Jean-Baptiste Berlier

Though these were never realised, Berlier was heavily involved with the Paris Metro from its opening in 1900 and indeed was one of the key instigators of the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris which went on to build two privately funded lines that were later absorbed by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris, and are still in use today as (parts of) Paris Métro Line 12 and Paris Métro Line 13.

Public call office

Private sector corporations such as Reliance Infocomm, Tata Indicom, Hutch, Idea and Airtel are prepaid PCO providers and have a moderate number of PCOs in the public landscape.

Robert C. Farrell

This, it was said, distinguished him from other African-American council members—"Gilbert Lindsay and occasionally David Cunningham"—who relied more on the private sector in solving problems.

Robert David Steele

He argues that U.S. intelligence reform is needed, and that the private sector can perform a high percentage of U.S. open source intelligence needs and reduce cost to the U.S. government.

Robin Henderson

She was named to become the center's Acting Director effective August 3, 2012, following the retirement of the previous director, Arthur E. Goldman, to take a private sector position.

Spaceport Sweden

In 2013, Spaceport Sweden initiated a limited offering of weightless flight experiences, in collaboration with AirZeroG and Novespace in France, to private individuals using a specially outfitted Airbus A300 capable of simulating a short-duration zero-gravity environment.


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American Center for International Labor Solidarity

When textile manufacturer Grupo M, the Dominican Republic’s largest employer, applied to the International Finance Corporation (the World Bank’s private sector lending arm) for a $20 million loan to open a factory on the Haiti-Dominican border, the Solidarity Center, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the Dominican Federation of Free Trade Zone Workers (FEDOTRAZONAS) worked together to condition the loan on respect for worker rights.

Ana Vilma de Escobar

De Escobar worked for ten years at the United States Agency for International Development in its Private Sector Office managing projects to develop the promotion of non traditional exports and to foment foreign investment through the private and public sector.

Anthony Abbott

After his defeat, Abbott returned to the private sector serving as president of the Retail Council of Canada.

Bachelor of International Development

Students of International Development studies often choose careers in international organisations such as the United Nations or the World Bank, non-governmental organisations, private sector development consultancy firms, and research centers.

Birdland Park and Gardens

The Falkland Islands Government took no legal action over the monies as they considered them a private sector initiative and the Government had complete rights to issue monies for all the Falkland Islands.

Carmen Lomellin

In addition, she has extensive experience in the private sector, working for the Chicago-based Inland Steel Company in various sales and marketing capacities.

Cité du Multimédia

After the bursting of the dot-com bubble, and the elimination of tax incentives for information technology jobs in the district by the Liberal government of Jean Charest in 2003, phase 9 and others were cancelled, and the structures were sold by the joint venture to the private sector.

Eugene G. Fubini Award

The Eugene G. Fubini Award is an award by the Defense Science Board, named after Eugene G. Fubini, on an annual basis to recognize an individual from the private sector who has made highly significant contributions to the Department of Defense in an advisory capacity over a sustained period of time.

Foreglen

The village is a small linear settlement with a mix of public authority and private sector housing, and a number of local services and facilities including a local primary school, church, shop, post office, public house, and recreational facilities at O'Brien's GAC playing fields.

Giora Romm

He later entered the private sector and from September 2001 served as the director general of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Hong Kong Adventist Hospital

It is a private sector hospital, and is located on Hong Kong Island.

James H. Billington

Billington created the Library’s first national private-sector advisory group, the James Madison Council, whose members have supported the NDL Program, many other Library outreach programs, and acquisitions for the Library’s collections.

Jamie P. Merisotis

Merisotis previously served as chairman of the board for Scholarship America, the nation’s largest private-sector scholarship and educational-support organization; as vice chairman of the board of directors for the Washington Internship Institute; and as a member of the executive committee of the London-based European Access Network.

Jorge Navarro Suárez

After graduating, Navarro started working in the private sector, as manager in the Pueblo Supermarket chain.

Jorge Rosenblut

Political differences with certain members of the governing Concert of Parties for Democracy (Spanish: Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia) brought about his move to the private sector after almost seven years in the Public Sector.

Karur Vysya Bank

Karur Vysya Bank is a private-sector Indian bank, headquartered in Karur in Tamil Nadu.

Kochi Tuskers Kerala

Federal Bank, a major Indian commercial bank in the private sector, with headquarters in Aluva, Kerala, was be the principal sponsor of Kochi Tuskers Kerala.

LAMMPS

LAMMPS was originally developed under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between two laboratories from United States Department of Energy and three other laboratories from private sector firms.

Larry D. Shippy

Former State Representative John Hanes, who served with Shippy in the legislature in the 1990s, recalled Shippy as a person who was passionate about privatizing functions that government had usually performed but which could be handled by the private sector at cost savings.

Larry Speakes

After briefly serving as President Ford's personal press secretary in 1977, Speakes ventured into the private sector as vice president of the international public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton until 1981.

Laurence Silberman

Silberman has worked in the private sector as a partner at the law firms Moore, Silberman & Schulze in Honolulu and Morrison & Foerster and Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Executive Vice President of Crocker National Bank in San Francisco.

Leon Davidson

He then accepted assignments at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and The Pentagon in Washington before moving into the private sector.

Lyda Hill

Previously, she served on the Boards of the American Heart Association (as Chairman of the Dallas & Texas Chapters), the Arts Magnet High School, the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce (from 1985 to 1990), the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management, the President's Advisory Board for Private Sector Initiatives (from 1986 to 1989), the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, and the Women's Texas Golf Association (as President).

María Asunción Aramburuzabala

Private Sector Professional Merit Award granted by the ITAM's Alumni Association (2003): The Golden Plate Award granted by the Academy of Achievement in 2004; "2000 Women of the Year" granted by the Mexican Expansion Magazine; "The Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World" granted by Star Group (1998); the "2005 Women's Medal" granted by the Anahuac University and the "2004 Mont Blanc Businesswoman Award", among others.

Mayoral Control of Schools

Comparing appointed school boards to the board malfeasance in private sector companies such as Enron points to the danger of having a single-minded board take control of any entity.

National Offender Management Service

In January 2008, the Secretary of State for Justice announced major organisational reform which resulted in the Director-General of Her Majesty's Prison Service, Phil Wheatley, becoming the Chief Executive of NOMS, and assuming responsibility for both the National Probation Service (NPS) as well as HM Prison Service and management of contracts for private sector operation of prisons and prisoner escorting.

Navi Mumbai International Airport

The yet to be chosen private sector partner will hold 74% equity while the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Government of Maharashtra (through CIDCO) each holding 13%.

Non-Partisan Association

The NPA's electoral platform suggested that an NPA government would focus on reducing crime, improving housing affordability, leveraging the 2010 Winter Olympics, protecting the environment, advancing the city's arts and culture sector, and working collaboratively with senior levels of government, community groups, and the private sector.

Pedro Pablo Treviño Villarreal

In the private sector he has developed as Legal Adviser in Quintero & Quintero Attorneys, Assistant Financial Vicepresident at Bancomer Transfer Services, Transactions Lawyer in Mexico and Latinamerica in Holland & Hart and International Lawyer of Vitro Corporation.

Peoria and Rock Island Railroad

While that section of the P & RI that stretches from Peoria north to Toulon, Illinois became a public trail in 1989, the northern section of the same right-of-way, between Toulon and Rock Island, was liquidated into the hands of adjacent landowners in the private sector.

Peter P. Walsh

From 1920 until 1926 he worked in the private sector as Chief of Security for the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.

PGM College

PGM College, Kangazha, founded in 2005, is a private sector, self-financed educational institution in the village of Kangazha.

Port Alberta

Port Alberta's board of directors consists of private sector and government members representing Canadian National (CN), Canadian Pacific (CP), Edmonton Airports, Momentive, Stantec, Graham Construction, the City of Edmonton, PCL Construction, the City of Leduc, Symmetry, Inc., ONPA Architects, and Waiward Steel.

Public Sector Real Estate

The U.S. General Services Administration(GSA) is the primary government agency tasked with managing the U.S. Federal Government's real estate properties and the leases the GSA has with the private sector.

Racial wage gap in the United States

Grodsky and Pager also calculated wage differences, and found blacks to make $3.65 less per hour than whites in the private sector and $2.85 less in the public sector.

Radarsat-1

The Canadian federal government contributed about $500 million, the four participating provinces (Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia) about $57 million, and the private sector about $63 million.

Rehman Sobhan

After retirement from BIDS, he set up Centre for Policy Dialogue in 1993, a high-profile private sector think-tank, where he works as its Executive Chairman .

Robert B. Pirie, Jr.

After leaving government service, Pirie held a variety of positions in the private sector, including that of president of Essex Corporation and vice president of the Center for Naval Analyses and vice president of the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

The first private sector lease was signed with investment banking firm Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc. The building hosts conferences, trade shows, cultural events, and outdoor concerts.

Slemani Polytechnic University

Another duty of this University which is accomplished through 8 institutes and 2 colleges is to prepare experts and technical staff for the development of the society, government sector and the private sector, in addition to the administrative supervision of the institutes and technical colleges located within the boundaries of Slemani and Garmiyan.

Steve Marchand

Following college, Marchand began his professional career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), working with public and private sector clients to implement database management systems.

The people vs. Kreuzer, Turnwald-Wacker, Müller

City University of Science & Information Technology, (CUSIT) Peshawar is one of the first private-sector universities, chartered by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, recognized by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), permitted by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).

Thomas Barraga

Initially working in the private sector, Barraga held positions with the American Can Company, Dun and Bradstreet, and Pfizer.

Thumbay Group

He was the first expatriate to be invited by the Rulers of Ajman to start a medical college in U.A.E., as there was no existing set-up to cater to the needs of the students to pursue higher education in medicine and healthcare sciences in the private sector.

Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim

He eventually returned to the private sector, and was appointed a group director of Sime Darby Limited.

William Harding Jackson

To the occasional amusement of many politicians and Washington, DC insiders, there was a George Jackson at CIA serving on the National Board of Estimates Staff, and other members of the 'Jackson Committee' which included the Committee's Chief of Staff, Wayne Jackson, a former office-mate of Bill Jackson's at the law firm Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, and C. D. Jackson from the private sector Time-Life-Fortune magazine syndicate.

XIV International AIDS Conference, 2002

The International AIDS Society selected this theme to emphasize the need for the general community and public and private sector organizations, scientists, and social workers to commit to use the knowledge gained through science and experience take action.