Susan Rice Dame Susan Rice is another veteran financier who combines banking and business interests with roles on public boards interest in the arts. She is chair of Scottish Water and the Scottish Fiscal Commission. As chief executive, and then chair of Lloyds TSB Scotland, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000. In 2012, she was also the first woman elected as president of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. She has long been respected by government. In 2009 she chaired the 2020 Group, set up in response to the Climate Change Bill, which aimed to reduce carbon emissions by 42 per cent of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050. In 2014 the Scottish Government announced it had reached the first target six years early.
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EY US names Gerry Dixon as US Government & Public Sector Managing Partner
May 17, 2021 GMT
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NEW YORK, May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced today the appointment of Gerry Dixon to serve as EY US Government & Public Sector Managing Partner, effective July 1, 2021. Dixon succeeds Michael Herrinton, who has led the EY US Government & Public Sector practice since 2015 and will retire in June 2022.
In his new role, Dixon will be responsible for setting the strategy and direction of the Government & Public Sector practice. He will support government agencies in achieving mission success and supporting their efforts to protect the nation and serve the people. Dixon’s leadership will also focus on helping state, federal and local agencies realize their modernization and reform goals while driving accountability and transparency. He
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Australian workers and their businesses are at high risk of getting left behind unless employers make significant changes to their workplaces post-COVID, according to a first of its kind Australian survey by the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University of Technology.
In this unprecedented era of disruption, the survey found that more than half of Australian workers do almost no learning at work (less than an hour a week), despite three in five workers saying are concerned they don’t have the skills required for the next five years.
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As part of the efforts to boost the Philippines’ agricultural production, the Philippine government should find a way to be able to tap into financial technology (FinTech) in linking farmers with financial services.
“If done well, FinTech could be key to increasing agricultural productivity because of its huge potential for financial inclusion by making financial services and products accessible even to the marginalized farmers and farming families,” Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Director Glenn B. Gregorio said.
Rico C. Ancog, University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Associate Professor and UP Scientist III who leads SEARCA’s Emerging Innovation for Growth program, said the use of modern financial technologies will likewise improve cost efficiency across the food supply chain in the country.