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The Executive Secretaries responded to queries raised.

The CEOs lost on their options as well.

Moreover, these CEOs lost a lot in the crisis.

The Executive Secretaries fully support his assessment and follow up action.

Executives collected generous bonuses, and equity holders were protected by limited liability.

Those executives have global experience in trade in transnational goods and services.

Corporate executives manage larger companies. Investors manage much larger sums of money.

The question of fund raising would be given active consideration by the executive secretaries of the regional commissions at their forthcoming meeting.

Now, corporate executives will also tell you that brand management is a tricky affair.

The Executive Secretaries further explored interregional and horizontal cooperation between the commissions in given areas.

This shift to heroic leadership can be seen in ballooning CEO compensation.

And I thought about it, and I said, CEOs often pay themselves million dollar bonuses, even when companies are losing a lot of money.

The leaders of the project (the executive researchers) for 31 projects were females, and for 124 projects they were men.

Anger has come to focus on banking executives huge compensation packages, composed largely of bonuses.

Government officials have identified far too closely with the distorted, self interested worldview of global banking executives.

Moreover, these CEOs lost a lot in the crisis. From 2006 to 2008, the average CEO lost 31 million in his or her holdings of a firm s stock, dwarfing any gains from cash compensation.

But the firms pay arrangements did not contain any claw back provisions that would have enabled the firms to recoup the bonuses that had already been paid.

In this connection, the Executive Secretaries agreed that sustained economic growth and institutional changes as well as targeted employment and social policies are necessary.

Silicon Valley CEOs say they will not expand in California because of high taxes and burdensome regulation, which make the state uncompetitive.

To be elected, a board member needs to be nominated by the current board, where executives have considerable influence.

On an ad hoc basis, the Executive Committees deal with those issues that pertain to the situation of women in various conflict stricken areas, including gender based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse.

One third of the Board members are chosen by the General Assembly and the corresponding governing bodies of the other member organizations, one third by the executive heads and one third by the participants.

At the center of the first narrative, preferred by financial sector executives, is the view that all necessary reforms have already been adopted (or soon will be).

As a result, executives were not exposed to the potential negative consequences that large losses could bring about for preferred shareholders, bondholders, and the government as a guarantor of deposits.

The Executive Secretaries also stressed that although national policies are crucial for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, in a globalized world and in a situation of growing interdependencies, a supportive international climate is indispensable.

The executive secretaries also elaborated on their plans to implement gender mainstreaming policies, to address growing demographic imbalances and to improve coordination between the regional commissions and actors in civil society.

Second, that the Executive Heads of UNDG should report annually to their governing bodies on progress made in advancing the simplification, harmonization and alignment agenda.

The Executive Secretaries, therefore, expressed appreciation of the recent decision by the Council in early 2005, to hold its dialogue with them immediately after the High level Segment.

When incentives don't work, when CEOs ignore the long term health of their companies in pursuit of short term gains that will lead to massive bonuses, the response is always the same.

In 2006, the CEOs took home 3.6 million in cash compensation on average, which represented less than half of total compensation.

In Afghanistan, UNHCR and its implementing partners launched two projects in late 2004 to provide returnee and IDP street children in Kabul with health care at a mobile clinic and support their attendance at school.

In any case, the government, according to the largest banks CEOs, could not possibly impose a cap on their assets size, because to do so would undermine the productivity and competitiveness of the US economy.

In this connection, the Executive Secretaries reviewed the results thus far achieved by the regional coordination meetings established by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1998 46, annex III, and agreed that they need to be made more effective.

On 28th 29th April, in Athens, seminar on The Art of Communication 22 women trainees executives of political parties and national partners of the Programme took part.

But the rolling series of scandals surrounding global megabanks makes it difficult for anyone to keep a straight face when executives insist that our largest banks must maintain their current scale and scope.

With respect to mainstreaming the regional dimension in the work of the United Nations and enhancing the coherence of its activities in the economic and social sectors, the Executive Secretaries expressed satisfaction with the measure taken so far by the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs.

Such corporations are rife with agency problems while decision makers (CEO s) are supposed to act on behalf of their shareholders, they have enormous discretion to advance their own interests and they often do.

Thus, while the long term shareholders in their firms were largely decimated, the executives performance based compensation kept them in positive territory.

The Executive Secretaries at their meeting in February 2005 agreed to formalize the meeting of the Programme Chiefs as a subsidiary structure to their own joint meetings and to report to them through the Regional Commissions New York Office.

CAMBRIDGE The United States Federal Reserve Board recently adopted a policy under which bank supervisors, the guardians of the financial system s safety and soundness, would review the compensation structures of bank executives.

Finally, UNOPS also monitors the weekly activities of each initiative to track performance against scope, deliverables and timing and to address issues identified by the executive sponsors and or initiative leaders, and reports to the steering committee of the transformation programme.

The Board of Auditors wishes to express its appreciation for the cooperation and assistance extended by the Secretary General, the executive heads of United Nations funds and programmes and the Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, their officers and staff.

Consider executive pay packages. Board remuneration committees can explain them logically with complex formulas to justify them, and yet often they are completely out of line with common sense.

As our country works to emerge from this recession, its executive director wrote, American companies need to be focused on creating jobs and encouraging innovation to put us back on a path to sustained economic growth.