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Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science is an institution of higher education in Rehovot, Israel.
==History==
The Institute, originally called the Daniel Sieff Research Institute was founded in 1934 by Chaim Weizmann an academic chemist formerly at Manchester University and a leading Zionist activist. It was renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science in his honor on November 2, 1949 after he became the first President of the newly created Israeli state. 
==People==
===Presidents===
*Chaim Weizmann (1949–1952; 1934–1952 if predecessor Daniel Sieff Institute included)
*Abba Eban (1959–1966)
*Meyer Weisgal (1966–1970)
*Albert Sabin (1970–1972)
*Israel Dostrovsky (1972–1975)
*Michael Sela (1975–1985)
*Aryeh Dvoretzky (1985–1988)
*Haim Harari (1988–2001)
*Ilan Chet (2001–2006)
*Daniel Zajfman (2006–present)Weizmann Institute Past officers of the Weizmann Institute
==Resources==
*Institute for Research - Middle Eastern Policy The Weizmann Institute of Science: FBI counterespionage file Israel Lobby Archive.
==See also==
Weizmann UK
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Category:Higher Education in Israel
Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation that is dedicated to 'achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health.' About us Wellcome Trust website, undated, accessed 10 November 2014 
As a charity it focuses on supporting the 'brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities.' It supports a wide variety of research including public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. 
==Affiliations== 
The Wellcome Trust is a donor to the Science Media Centre. SMC, Funding, accessed 29 September 2013. See also Science Media Centre - Funding
==Lobbying firms==
*Luther Pendragon Association of Professional Political Consultants, Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 28 January 2015 
==Contact==
*Address: Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, UK
*Telephone: +44(0)2076118888
*Fax: +44(0)2076118545
==See also==
*The Sunday Times Rich List 2022
*Top 100 philanthropists in the UK - The Sunday Times Giving List 2022
*Charitable spending of the largest 100 UK family foundations - 2009
*Zionist Family Foundations ranked by charitable spending 2021-2
*Top 300 Foundations ranked by giving in the UK - 2019
*Top 300 Foundations ranked by giving in the UK - 2021
==Notes==
Category:FoundationsCategory: Science Media Centre
Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo is a financial services company founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia in 2008.
==Record and Controversies==
===Revolving Door===
:*Robert K. Steel, a director since January 2009 joined the board when Wachovia was acquired by Wells Fargo. He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance from October 2006 to July 2008.Wachovia, "Wachovia Names Robert K. Steel CEO and President," Press Release 09 July 2008, accessed 10 February 2011.Finger, Katy, "Who is Robert Steel, Wachovia's new chief?," Charlotte Business Journal, 10 July 2008, accessed 10 February 2011.
==Contact==
:Website:
:https://www.wellsfargo.com/
==Resources==
*Finger, Katy, "Who is Robert Steel, Wachovia's new chief?," Charlotte Business Journal, 10 July 2008, accessed 10 February 2011.
*Wachovia, "Wachovia Names Robert K. Steel CEO and President," Press Release 09 July 2008, accessed 10 February 2011.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit

The Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU) is a single Special Branch created by the four Welsh police forces. Its remit covers international Terrorism, Irish-related terrorism and domestic extremism.Linda Major, Evaluation of the Collaboration Programme in Wales,Police Authorities Wales, 23 June 2008, p.6.
WECTU was formerly headed by the then Assistant Chief Constable of South Wales Giles York.David James, [http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/05/20/how-wales-leads-the-way-in-counter-terrorism-91466-20934309/ How Wales leads the way in counter-terrorism, Western Mail, 20 May 2008. 
George Monbiot has accused WECTU of lacking public accountability: 
::The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) now runs three units whose purpose is to tackle another phenomenon it has never defined: domestic extremism. These are the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (Netcu), the Welsh Extremism and Counter-Terrorism Unit and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit. Because Acpo is not a public body but a private limited company, the three bodies are exempt from freedom of information laws and other kinds of public accountability, even though they are funded by the Home Office and deploy police officers from regional forces.George Monbiot, As the political consensus collapses, now all dissenters face suppression, guardian.co.uk, 18 May 2009.
==Finance==
WECTU's budget of approximately £3.5 million per annum is largely funded though the Home Office and ACPO TAM.Linda Major, Evaluation of the Collaboration Programme in Wales,Police Authorities Wales, 23 June 2008, p.7.
==External Resources==
*Paul Mobbs/The Free Range Network, NETCU, WECTU and NPOIU: Britain's Secretive Police Force, 1 April 2009.
==Notes==
Category:UK Police Intelligence
Wendell Willkie

Wendell Willkie (1892-1944) was the Republican candidate for US president in 1940.Wendell Willkie (1892-1944), The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, Department of History, The George Washington University, accessed 7 February 2014.
==Connections==
*Irita Van Doren
==External resources==
*William J. vanden Heuvel, In Praise of Wendell Willkie, a 'Womanizer', New York Times, 19 December 1987.
==Notes==
Willkie, Wendell
Wendy Earle

Wendy Earle is an academic, film educator and researcher associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. She has written for Living Marxism and Spiked, contributed to the Battle of Ideas "Profile", Battle Of Ideas website, accessed 8 May 2010 and Culture Wars and represented Families Need Freedom. 
==Resources==
:LinkedIn: 'Wendy Earle'
==Notes==
Earle, Wendy
Wendy Gail Press

Wendy Gail Press (born September 1954) is a South African national living in the UK.
==Affiliations==
===Company director===
*I.S.A. Management (UK) Limited. (01948769)Company status: Dissolved, Appointed on 1 May 1993
*The Chicken Shed Theatre Trust (02705172) 8 December 2009 Resigned on 30 May 2011
===Charity trustee===
*Stanley and Zea Lewis Family Foundation trustee, appointed 23 December 1992.
==Notes==
Wendy Hallett

Wendy Hallett is the owner and managing director of Hallett Retail Services Ltd.
==Career==
Hallett joined Sir Philip Green's Arcadia as a graduate trainee in 1985. She spent 13 years there in positions including store manager and area manger and oversaw Topshop's Oxford Street flagship store.
In March 1999 she founded Hallett Retail Services Ltd, who run concessions in over 30 host stores in the UK and Europe including Debenhams, Dorothy Perkins, New Look, House of Fraser and Oasis. Linkedin Wendy Hallett, accessed 2 April 2015.
==Letter to the Telegraph==
On 1 April 2015 Hallett was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 2 April 2015.
==Education==
*BA Hons, Social and Economic History, 2:2, The University of Hull 1982–1985
==Affiliations==
*Women in Business Council, member Hallett Retail Our team, accessed 2 April 2015.
==Notes==
Hallett, Wendy
Wendy Kaminer

Wendy Kaminer is a US based lawyer, writer and free speech activist. She is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental LM network in that she writes regularly for Spiked. "Articles by Wendy Kaminer", Spiked website, accessed 2 May 2010
==Resources==
:Blog Wendy Kaminer Huffington Post
:Column Wendy Kaminer The Atlantic
:Website Wendykaminer.com
==Notes==
Kaminer, Wendy
Wendy Le-Las

Dr Wendy Le-Las runs a Planning Consultancy which represents the interests of parish councils and community groups in environmental disputes.Le Las Associates website, accessed November 2007.
She was a member of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee which was a precursor to the Committee on Radioactive Waste ManagementRWMAC, Twenty Third Annual Report of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee December 2003.
She is a member of the Integrated Decision Management team.Wendy Le-Las Integrated Decision Management Website, accessed November 2007
==References==
Le-Las, Wendy
Le-Las, Wendy
Le-Las, Wendy
Wendy Morton

Wendy Morton has been the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills since May 2015. Wendy Morton www.parliament.uk, accessed 28 May 2015 
Morton replaced Richard Shepherd following his retirement in March 2015 having served in the constituency since 1979. Sir Richard Shepherd www.parliament.uk, accessed 28 May 2015 In her first election in 2015, Morton defended the seat for the Conservatives with a majority of 11,723. 
==Affilations==
*All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces
==Notes==
Morton, WendyMorton, WendyMorton, Wendy
Wendy Senor Singer

Wendy Senor Singer is the director of AIPAC's Jerusalem Office. She is also co-founder of Start-Up Nation Central, an Israeli non-profit that promotes Israeli technology.Peter Coy, 'An Israeli Cyber Warrior Puts a Scare Into CEOs at Davos', Bloomberg Business, 22 January 2015, accessed 29 June 2015 She is the sister of neoconservative Dan Senor and married to Jerusalem Post columnist Saul Singer. 
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Werner Schulz

Werner Schulz (born 22 January 1950, Zwickau) is an MEP for Germany from Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen. 
==Affiliations==
*Vice-Chair, Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
*Member, Foreign Affairs
*Member, Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly 
*Substitute, Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
*Nothing to declare.European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Werner Schulz, 06 March 2012, accessed 08 March 2012.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
====Election Campaign 2009====
Werner Schulz has not yet pledged to any of the four issues presented by the Election Campaign:
*to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
*to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
*to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
*to promote corporate accountability.Election Campaign, Werner Schulz, accessed 08 March 2012.
Ask Werner Schulz to pledge: Pin down your candidate now!
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
* Locomotive mechanic (1968). Engineer (food technology/food chemistry ) (1972). Head of stock control at a State-owned refrigeration plant in Berlin (1972-1974). Research assistant at the Humboldt University, Berlin (1974-1980). Academic assistant at the Institute for Secondary Raw Materials Management (1980-1988). Head, Berlin/Lichtenberg Environmental Inspectorate (1988-1990). Politics (Member of the GDR Parliament/Member of the Bundestag) (since 1990).
* Representative of the New Forum at the Round Table (1989-1990). Member of the Volkskammer (GDR Parliament) (1990). Spokesman for Bündnis 90 (1991-1993). Member of the Bundestag, parliamentary business manager of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (1990-1998); Member of the Bundestag, economic policy spokesman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (1998-2005).
* Member of the Board of the German Lutheran Convention (2003-2009). Member of the Supervisory Board of the Aufarbeitung Foundation (devoted to the examination and reappraisal of the Communist dictatorship in the GDR) (since 2002).
* Federal Cross of Merit.
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Parlement européen
:Bât. Altiero Spinelli
:08H259
:60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
:B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
:Phone:
:+32(0)2 28 45399
:Fax
:+32(0)2 28 49399
:Email:
:werner.schulz AT europarl.europa.eu
:Website: 
:
==Resources==
*European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Werner Schulz, 06 March 2012, accessed 08 March 2012.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Werner Schulz, accessed 08 March 2011.
==Notes==
Schulz, Werner
Schulz, Werner
Schulz, Werner
Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting has been the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ilford North since May 2015. Wes Streeting MP www.parliament.uk, accessed 29 May 2015 
In the 2015 general election Streeting defeated the Conservative Party candidate Lee Scott, who had held the seat since 2005 Mr Lee Scott www.parliament.uk, accessed 29 May 2015 , with a majority of 589. Ilford North parliamentary constituency BBC News, 8 May 2015, accessed 29 May 2015 
==Affiliations==
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief 'Freedom Declared: Who we are', Freedom Declared website, undated, accessed 6 November 2015 
==Notes==
Streeting, WesStreeting, WesStreeting, Wes
Wesley Ball

Wesley Ball is the current secretary to the Labour Party and director of political services. Public Affairs in Higher Education CASE, accessed 21 October 2014 
Ball was special adviser to minister Hilary Benn at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from January 2009 until 2010, he continued advising Benn after Labour's loss in the general election, until 2011.
During the 2010 general election, Ball ran the briefing operation for the then prime minister Gordon Brown. Ball has also worked in campaigns and public affairs for NGOs. He has advised political parties in Botswana and Macedonia on campaign strategy. 
==Notes==
Ball, WesleyBall, Wesley
Wesley Wark

Wesley K. Wark is a Candadian intelligence and 'national security' expert and a frequent media commentator. He is a professor at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and a Visiting Research Professor at the new Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.Canadian International Council Event Notice, [Wesley Wark Canada’s Intelligence Needs for the 21st Century, 30 January 2008] (accessed 31 May 2008) He is the former President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS)Association for Security and Intelligence Studies CASIS Board of Directors 2007-08, (accessed 31 May 2008)
==Notes==
West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership

==Background==
West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership (Westcumbria:mrws) was set up by three West Cumbria county councils (Allerdale, Copeland and Cumbria) to look into the feasibility of locating an underground nuclear waste repository somewhere in the region. A public consultation with local communities ran from 21 November 2011 to 23 March 2012.
==External PR and lobbyists==
*The Communication Group PRCA Public Affairs Register – Agencies - September to November 2011 
*Osprey Communications - acts as communications adviser to the Westcumbria:mrws. Its work has included strategic communications advice, media relations, an advertising campaign, organising public exhibition stands, producing a DVD and producing a live ‘Question Time’ style webcast. West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership, undated, accessed 22 June 2012 
==People==
*Chairman Tim Knowles - is also the Cumbria County Council cabinet member for the environment
==Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Resources===
*Alan Irving, N-waste opinion poll criticised, Whitehaven News, 21 June 2012 
===Contact===
:Website:http://www.westcumbriamrws.org.uk/
===Notes===
Category:Nuclear Spin
Category:Civil nuclear industry
Category:Nuclear: UK
Category:Nuclear PR, lobbying and consultancy firms
West European Public Relations Group for Information on Behalf of Israel

The West European Public Relations Group for Information on Behalf of Israel was a propaganda outfit set up by Eric Moonman in the early 1970s.
==Origins==
In 1972 Eric Moonman was at the World Jewish Congress in Switzerland. He approached Stephen Roth, who was then director of the European Jewish Congress, and told him that changes had to be made in the way that Israel and the Jews represented themselves abroad. Roth gave him permission to start up a commission on Israel and in 1974, Moonman convened the first gathering of Jewish professionals to work out propaganda strategies.Greer Fay Cashman, ‘Selling Israel’, The Jerusalem Post, 26 November 1990
==Activities and Funding==
The group subsequently met twice every year, once in Europe in the summer and once in Jerusalem in the autumn. Moonman was the “the founder and guiding light” of the organisation which became the West European Public Relations Group for Information on Behalf of Israel. The group was initially funded by the World Jewish Congress which later withdrew its funding. From 1980 it was funded instead by the World Zionist Organization and from 1985 also by the Israel Foreign Ministry.Greer Fay Cashman, ‘Selling Israel’, The Jerusalem Post, 26 November 1990 The group was active until at least November 1991 when the The Jerusalem Post reported on its Jerusalem meetingGreer Fay Cashman, 'A Jewish guru in new Poland', The Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1991 - one of only two references to the group in the English language press.
'The group is not', reported the Jerusalem Post, 'a branch of any central organization, which as far as Moonman is concerned is "a relief". There's no servicing and there are no costs involved. "It cuts right across the formal structure."' A third of the people at each of the gatherings were reportedly 'newcomers, some of whom are receiving their first exposure to the variety and scope of the problems confronting Israel and the Jewish people.'
In 1991 there were representatives from Israel and 13 European countries. 'Among the newcomers' were Benjamin Gil, the director of the Brussels headquartered Centre Europeen Juif d'Information (Ceji) and Laszlo Koranyi, President of the Budapest chapter of B'nai B'rith. While Leif Wellerop, director of the Norwegian branch office of the International Christian Embassy, was there 'for the second time'. 
Also mentioned in the Jerusalem Post article, was the Institute for Countering Anti-Israel Propaganda, though it is not clear if its director David Olesker attended the meeting.
==Notes==
Category:Israel Lobby
West Midlands Police

West Midlands Police is one of the largest police forces in the UK. Its catchment area includes Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton.About Us, West Midlands Police, accessed 12 July 2013.
==People==
===Chief Constable===
*Dave Thompson January 2016-
*Chris Sims 2009-15 (retired)
==Units==
===West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit===
Although a part of West Midlands Police, West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit (WMCTU) is one of five teams across the country that form the Counter Terrorism Policing Network. 
See the Powerbase page on the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit for more information on the force's spying and policing of anti-fracking protest in the region.
==Notes==
Category:UK Police ForcesCategory:Fracking
West Midlands Taxpayers' Alliance

The West Midlands Taxpayers' Alliance is an offshoot of the Taxpayers' Alliance with close links to the Midlands Industrial Council. It is chaired by 'multi-millionaire car importer Robert Edmiston', The group has a full-time organiser and offices in Hagley Road, Birmingham.Birmingham Post, Figureheads back group calling for lower taxes, Birmingham Post, 1-August-2007
==Members==
Robert Edmiston | Christopher Kelly | Keith Bradshaw | Richard Smith | Edward Carter | Peter Roberts (TPA)
==Notes==
Category:Conservative movement
West One Communications

Set up by former government spin doctor John Williams.
==People==
*John Williams
*Patricia Barrie
*Pamela Blackburn
==Clients==
==Affiliations==
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Publications===
===Contact===
:Address:
:Phone:07768 992016
:Email:enquiries@westonecommunications.com
:Website:http://www.westonecommunications.com/
===Resources===
===Notes===
Category:Lobbying
 Category: Lobbying firms
 
 Category: Revolving Door
West Point Association of Graduates

The West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG) is the Alumni Association for the United States Military Academy (USMA). WPAOG a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation. It is the sole private organization authorized, by a Memorandum of Agreement, to raise private funds on behalf of the United States Military Academy.Mission, West Point Association of Graduates, accessed 2 December 2015.
==History==
WPAOG was founded in 1869 to reunite Academy graduates who found themselves on opposing sides during the American Civil War.Mission, West Point Association of Graduates, accessed 2 December 2015. 
==Notable grants==
*Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, 2011, to support the Combating Terrorism Center.Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, form 990, 2011.
==Notes==
Category:United StatesCategory:Terrorism research funders
West Yorkshire Police

West Yorkshire Police serve approximately 2.2 million people in the five metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.County Profile, West Yorkshire Police, accessed 12 July 2013.
==People==
===Chief Constable===
*Colin Sampson 1983-1989
*Peter Nobes 1989-1993
*Keith Hellawell 1993-1998
*Graham Moore 1998-2002
*Colin Cramphorn 2002-2006
*Sir Norman Bettison 2007-2012
*John Parkinson (acting) 
*Mark Gilmore 2013-
==Controversies==
===Linking anti-fracking protest to domestic extremism===
West Yorkshire Police has played a very vocal role in the UK's Prevent programme. The Times Educational Supplement (TES) has reported on how the police there hosted in September 2015 more than 100 teachers from local schools, who were told that anti-fracking protesters should be now viewed as potential extremists under the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy. The move received widespread criticism. Russell Scott, More police forces and councils labelling peaceful anti-fracking protestors as 'extremists' alongside ISIS and far right, SpinWatch, 02 December 2016. Accessed 6 December 2016. 
When Netpol attempted via Freedom of Information requests to push five police forces to release their Prevent training presentations for public sector staff among other details, the Information Commissioner (ICO) rejected their appeal. They cited grounds of national security and stating somewhat alarmingly 'that simply asking for information from multiple forces is itself suspicious, because this could be used as part of "a radicalisation strategy... by extremists to evade detection".' Russell Scott and Melissa Jones, Update: more documents show police, councils and schools labelling anti-fracking protestors as extremists, Spinwatch, 09 December 2016, accessed 12 December 2016. 
==Notes==
Category:UK Police Forces
Category:Fracking
Westbrook Creative

Westbrook Creative is a website agency which created Pestminster and Publicly Inconvenient, two anonymous pro-conservative blogs which appeared in the run-up to the 2015 UK general election.Sebastian Payne, Who lies behind these three new pro-Conservative blogs?, The Spectator Coffee House, 16 April 2015.
The company's website www.westbrookcreative.co.uk was registered to Clive Allen as of 17 April 2015.Global Who-Is - Domain Name Search, ratite.com, accessed 17, April 2015.
 
==Notes==
Category:UK