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African Minerals

==People==
*Graham Foyle-Twining, Global head of Human Resources and Sustainable Development
*Mike Jones
*Lord Truscott Non-executive director and consultant to African Minerals (UK) Ltd appointed April 2008, approved by the ACOBA. Truscott only continued this role until 2009 but retains shareholdings in the company.
==Lobbying and PR firms==
*Tavistock Communications - Jos Simson / Nuala Gallagher
==Affiliations==
*British hedge fund RAB Capital's Situations Company Ltd has invested in this company
==Contact details==
:African Minerals Limited
:5 Stratton Street
:London W1J 8LA
==External resources==
*Human Rights Watch, 'Whose Development? Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom'
::This 96-page report documents how the government and London-based African Minerals Limited forcibly relocated hundreds of families from verdant slopes to a flat, arid area in Tonkolili District. As a result, residents lost their ability to cultivate crops and engage in income generating activities that once sustained them. Police carried out a bloody crackdown in the town of Bumbuna in April 2012 to quell a protest by workers who went on strike after being barred from forming a union of their own choosing. Whose Development?, Human Rights Watch, 19 February 2014 
*African Minerals, Emailed Statement from African Minerals in response to Human Rights Watch Report, undated.
==Notes==
Category:Mining and Metals
African Organic Farming Foundation

African Organic Farming Foundation (AOFF) says it is
:a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2001 that offers natural solutions for economic growth and prosperity. AOFF's mission is to reduce poverty among Southern Africa's rural communities through the introduction of organic farming, better nutrition, agro-enterprise development and management of natural resources."Home Page, African Organic Farming Organisation website, accessed March 17 2009
==Affiliations==
Flying Matters. AOFF is listed as a member of the aviation industry lobby group Flying Matters as of October 2008."Flying Matters Membership as of October 2008"
==People==
Ged Buffee - president
==Funding==
==Clients==
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Publications===
===Contact===
:Address: The African Organic Farming Foundation, Postnet Suite 521, Private Bag X9, Benmore 2010, South Africa
:Phone:
:Email: ged@africanorganics.org
:Website: http://africanorganics.org
===Resources===
===Notes===
Category:NGOs
Afro-Asian Institute for Labor Studies and Cooperation

The Afro-Asian Institute for Labor Studies and Cooperation was founded by the US AFL-CIO labour federation and the Israeli Histadrut.Bernard Reich, Israel's Policy in Africa, Middle East Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter, 1964), pp. 14-26.
According to a 1964 study by Bernard Reich:
::During the period 1959-1961 Africans participating in the Institute came from Dahomey, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Senegal, French Sudan (Mali), Chad and Guinea. 
::The Institute is designed to train Asian and African students to assume positions of leadership in their native labor movements. The program of study includes both theoretical and practical courses in the organization and functioning of trade unions and cooperative enterprise.Bernard Reich, Israel's Policy in Africa, Middle East Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter, 1964), pp. 14-26.
==People==
*Akiva Eger
==Notes==
Category:Trade and Labour UnionsCategory:AfricaCategory:Israel
Afshin Ellian

Afshin Ellian was born in Iran in 1966. As an opponent of the Ayatollah Khomeini in his youth, he fled as a political refugee first to Pakistan, then Afghanistan and ultimately to the Netherlands. As of 2009, he is a Professor of Law at the University of Leiden.Afshin Ellian, The Multicultural Netherlands, accessed 7 January 2009.
==Affiliations==
*The Collapse of Europe Conference - Panelist | Secular Islam Summit
==References==
Ellian, AfshinEllian, Afshin
Afzal Amin

Afzal Amin is a former army officer who stood as a 2015 general election candidate for the Conservative Party in the marginal Labour-held Dudley North constituency but was forced to resign two months before the election.
==EDL phony march plot==
In March 2015 former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson revealed that Amin had been in talks with him to arrange a phony EDL protest march against the proposed building of a mosque in Dudley. The plan was that it would be called off so Amin could take credit for defusing the situation. Amin however denied he had come up with the EDL march plan, insisting it had been Robinson's idea. Cahal Milmo, Afzal Amin: EDL leader claims shadowy millionaire backed Tory Dudley candidate's plot, The Independent, 23 March 2015 
==Sharing EDL views==
Footage showed Amin saying that: 'he agreed with “95 per cent” of the positions taken by the EDL and would act as a “very strong, unshakeable ally” of the group should he be elected'. He refused to answer allegations by Robinson however that he had an un-named wealthy backer who had offered financial support to Robinson. 
After being suspended by the Conservative Party, Amin resigned as an election candidate. BBC News Afzal Amin resigns as Conservative candidate in Dudley North, BBC News, 23 March 2015, accessed 24 March 2015 
==Affiliations==
*Tommy Robinson, Nicholas Watt and Matthew Taylor, Tory candidate accused of EDL plot urged to 'fess up' and 'go now', The Guardian, 22 March 2015, accessed same day 
==External resources==
*Alex Harrowell, More Questions on the Biryani Project, The Yorkshire Ranter, 25 March 2015.
==Notes==
Amin, Afzal
AgBioForum

AgBioForum is a pro-GM journal funded by the Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance (IMBA). IMBA has been funded by the USDA since the mid 1990s. It got its grant-funded status with the help of then Monsanto CEO, Richard Mahoney.History, IMBA website, acc 18 May 2010
AgBioForum has the enthusiastic GM proponent CS Prakash on its editorial board.Editorial board, AgBioForum website, acc 18 May 2010
==Notes==
Category:GM
Against Violent Extremism

Online think-tank Against Violent Extremism, devised and launched by Google Ideas at the Summit Against Violent Extremism in Dublin in 2011.
It is managed by the UK-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).Deepa Bharath, Newport Beach-based Gen Next fights terrorism around the world, Orange County Register, 18 May 2014. and is described by AVE as 'a unique private sector partnership between ISD, Google Ideas, the Gen Next Foundation and rehabstudio.
==Funding==
*Institute for Strategic Dialogue US - its 2014 tax filings show a US$200,000 grant in 2014 for the AVE network/website ISD US, Form 990 
==Notes==
Category:Think Tanks
Agenda

AGENDA is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.
==Board of Directors 2003 - 2004==
*Kate Beckmann, SISTech
*Kyla Brand, independent adviser
*Stuart Duffin, business adviser
*Charles Henderson, Vice President CSR, Aegon NV 
*Margaret MacLaren, Principal, Margaret McLaren Accountancy
*Andrew Magowan, Management Assurance Services, KPMG 
*Graeme Millar, Chairman, Scottish Consumer Council and Common Services Agency
*Fran van Dijk, SustainAbility 
*Debbie Wilkie, Deputy Director, Scottish Civic Forum
*Alan Wilson, Scottish Council for Development and Industry 
Our members include:
Dug Bradley, Craigleith Ltd; Anne-Marie McGeoch, Community Enterprise Limited; Liz Thomas, Renfrewshire CVS; Ann Muir, Edinburgh Resource Centre; Ashley Lennon, Momentum (Rehab Scotland); Barclay Price, Arts and Business Scotland; Matthew Haggis, Creative Exchange; Ian Wright, Napier University; Martyn Evans, Scottish Consumer Council; Michael Groves, Great Circle Communications; Simon Hamilton, Three Hands; Margaret McLaren, Margaret McLaren Accountancy; Stephen Phillips, Burness & Co; Alan Wilson, SCDI; Damien Yeates, Govan Initiative; Chris Pilley; Dermot Grimson, Shell; Alastair Wyllie, Wyllie and Reid Corporate Communications; Graham Houston, The Work Foundation; Brad Michaels, Socia Centre; Anita Meldrum, Total Corporate Health Ltd; Foster Evans, Employers for Voluntary Housing; Andrew Preston, Aberdeen Asset Managers; Karen Maclean, Social Firms Scotland; Carole Ryden, The CSR Business Ltd; Jenny Hamilton; Nick Lyth, S D Lime Associates; Rodney Stares, Circles around Dundee; Andy Boddice, Tayburn; Simon Bailey; Margaret Durie, EUS Microbeacon; Debbie Wilkie, Scottish Civic Forum; Sonia McLay, Papillon Promotions; Zoe van Zwanenberg, Scottish Leadership Foundation, Colin Sansome, BQI Consulting; Katy Starke; Chris Hughes, Tiger Blue; ppScottish Churches Industrial Mission[[; Sarah Burton; Colin Pyle, Stepchange.
Also: Loyds TSB Scotland; BAA Scotland; Diageo; BP.
==External links==
Agenda website: http://www.agenda-scotland.org/
==Notes==
Agenzia informazioni e sicurezza esterna

The Agenzia informazioni e sicurezza esterna (AISE) [External Intelligence and Security Agency] is an Italian intelligence agency responsible for foreign intelligence.AISE, sicurezzanazionale.gov.it, accessed 16 June 2013.
AISE replaced the SISMI under legislation passed in 2007.Brief historical outline, sicurezzanazionale.gov.it, accessed 16 June 2013.
==Notes==
Category:SpooksCategory:ItalyCategory:Italian Intelligence
Agenzia informazioni per la sicurezza interna

The Agenzia informazioni per la sicurezza interna (AISI) [Internal Intelligence and Security Agency] is an Italian domestic intelligence agency. It replaced the SISDE under legislation passed in 2007.Brief historical outline, sicurezzanazionale.gov.it, accessed 16 June 2013.
==Notes==
Category:SpooksCategory:ItalyCategory:Italian Intelligence
Agricultural Bank of China

The Agricultural Bank of China (hereafter referred to as ABC or the Bank) is the first commercial bank established in the People's Republic of China in 1951 and the State's first specialized bank set up after the reform and opening-up of the country in February 1979. On Fortune Global 500, they ranked 223 in 2008 and 155 in 2009.CNN, Agricultural Bank of China, accessed 07 April 2010.
==People==
:Xiang Junbo, President of the Agricultural Bank of China is a former deputy governor of China's central bank.New York Times, "Agricultural Bank of China may offer shares to the public by 2010," 08 February 2008, accessed 07 April 2010.
:Gang Xiao, Chairman of the Bank of China Ltd since 2003, was deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China from 1998 to 2003.Financial Times, Bank of China Ltd, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Contact==
:Website:
:http://www.abchina.com/
==Resources==
*CNN, Agricultural Bank of China, accessed 07 April 2010.
*Financial Times, Bank of China Ltd, accessed 07 April 2010.
*New York Times, "Agricultural Bank of China may offer shares to the public by 2010," 08 February 2008, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
Agricultural Biotechnology Council

The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (abc) represents the interests of genetically modified (GM) crop companies in Britain.
It says its goal is to 'provide factual information and education about the agricultural use of GM technology in the UK, based on respect for public interest, opinions and concerns.'
==Members==
The group is made up of six member companies:
*BASF 
*Bayer
*Dow AgroSciences
*Monsanto
*Pioneer (DuPont) 
*Syngenta
==People==
*Mark Buckingham of Monsanto; chair
*Dr. Julian Little of Bayer CropScience; dept chair
==Hired lobbyists==
*Lexington Communications, ABC hired lobbying agency Lexington Communications in 2002. It is a client still in 2017.
==History==
In 2002 Monsanto along with Bayer CropScience, BASF, Dow Agrosciences, Dupont and Syngenta set up the UK lobby group, the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC). 
The ABC is part of Agricultural Biotechnology in Europe (ABE) which also represents industry lobbies in Belgium, Denmark, France, Spain, and Sweden. Other openly industry-backed lobby groups in Europe include EuropaBio and the UK-based CropGen.
The first chairman of the ABC was the former Head of Syngenta Seeds UK, Stephen Smith. The current chairman is Julian Little of Bayer CropScience. Before that it was Paul Rylott, also of Bayer although formerly UK Seed Manager for Aventis CropScience.
Initially, the ABC was represented by Weber Shandwick, one of the world's largest PR companies. However, in November 2002 it changed to Lexington Communications, run by Mike Craven, a former aide to the UK's Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. Prior to Lexington, Craven was the Labour Party's chief media spokesperson and before that a lobbyist with Market Access. While Craven was Managing Director of Market Access it faced accusations of a 'massive disinformation campaign' in lobbying for the European 'patents on life' directive, which was approved despite strong public opposition.
In January 2003 Lexington Communications hired Bernard Marantelli, a PR operative from Monsanto, to run a pro-GM PR campaign for the ABC to educate 'regulators, legislators, retailers and consumer groups'. The budget is £250,000, the same amount of money that was originally proposed for the whole national Public Debate on GM in the UK, held in 2003.
In February 2002, a major conclusion of the ABC's inaugural report was that if GM could be seen to be beneficial to birds like the skylark, then that would ensure the majority of people would support GM. Research, part-funded by Monsanto, was promoted in just these terms in January 2003.
The ABC's first Chairman, the late Stephen Smith, was routinely quoted with other 'scientists' in press releases put out by the Science Media Centre (SMC) on GM issues. In January 2003 he was quoted in one promoting the 'skylark-friendly' GM research. The SMC also agreed for the ABC to hold its launch at the Centre.
==Contacts==
:Wesbite: http://www.abcinformation.org
==Notes==
Category:Front GroupsCategory:GMCategory:GM Lobby Groups
Category:Corporate Lobby Groups
Agudat Yisrael

Agudat Yisrael (literally: Union of Israel, also transliterated Agudath Israel, or, in Yiddish, Agudas Yisroel) is a Haredi Jewish political party in 'Israel'. It began as a political party representing Haredi Jews in Poland, originating in the Agudath Israel movement in Upper Silesia. It later became the party of many Haredim in Israel. It was the umbrella party for many, though not all, Haredi Jews in Israel until the 1980s, as it had been during the British Mandate of Palestine.
Since the 1980s, it has become a predominantly Hasidic party, though it often combines with the Degel HaTorah non-Hasidic Ashkenazi Haredi party for elections and coalition-forming (although not with the Sephardi and Mizrahi Haredi party Shas). When so combined, they are known together as United Torah Judaism.
==See also==
*Agudath Israel of America
*World Agudath Israel
*Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah
*Agudas Israel Organisation of Great Britain Charity number: 290191
==Notes==
AgustaWestland

From 1 January 2016, Italian arms firm Leonardo's Helicopter Division has absorbed the activities of AgustaWestland.
==Revolving Door==
*Former disgraced Labour defence minister Geoff Hoon was AgustaWestland's international director after he was forced to resign as an MP in 2010 until October 2016. Geoff Hoon to depart AgustaWestland, 17 October 2016, accessed 14 September 2017 
*Air Vice Marshal John Ponsonby is managing director of the UK division
==Lobbying firms retained==
*FTI Consulting
==Notes==
Category:Arms IndustryCategory:Revolving DoorCategory:Arms Trade Revolving Door
Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra

Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra (born 27 September 1947, Daimiel, C.R.) is an MEP from People's Party (PP) since 20.07.2004.European Parliament, MEP Directory: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, accessed 06 November 2010.
==Affiliations==
*Member, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
*Member, Delegation for relations with Iran
*Member, Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees
*Substitute, Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China
==Record and Controversies==
===Declaration of Financial Interests===
*Nothing to declare.European Parliament, Declaración relativa a los intereses económicos de los diputados: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, 09 December 2008, accessed 29 April 2009.
===Record of Parliamentary Votes===
==Personal Information==
===Curriculum Vitae===
*Graduate in modern and contemporary history. Diploma in European Community studies. Director of the 'San Juan Evangelista' college (Madrid).
*Secretary-General of the PP (Ávila); member of the PP National Executive Committee and of the PP Standing Committee in Castile and Leon. Chairman of the PP in Ávila (1996-2000).
*Deputy Mayor (Ávila). Mayor of Ávila (1999-2002). 
*Senator (1989-1993).
*Member of the Congress of Deputies (1993-1996).
*Senator (1996-2000 and 2000-2004).
*Chairman of the Committee on Defence.
*Director-General of the Police (2002-2004).
*Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 
*Member of the WEU Assembly. 
*Chairman of the Council of Europe Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography (1997-2001). 
*Chairman of the Spanish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the WEU (2000-2002).
*Grand Cross of the Military Order of Merit with White Distinction. Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great, awarded by the Holy See. Gold medal of the ICPO-Interpol Secretariat-General.
===Contact===	
:Address:
:Parlement européen
:Bât. Altiero Spinelli
:11E169
:60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
:B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
:Phone:
:+32 (0)2 28 45624
:Fax
:+32 (0)2 28 49624
:Email:
:agustin.diazdemeragarcia-consuegra@europarl.europa.eu
:Website: 
:
==Resources==
*European Parliament, Declaración relativa a los intereses económicos de los diputados: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, 09 December 2008, accessed 29 April 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, accessed 29 April 2009.
*European Parliament, MEP Directory: Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, accessed 06 November 2010.
==Notes==
Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Agustín
Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Agustín
Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Agustín
Aharon Barak

Aharon Barak is a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yale Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Aharon Barak was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006.Aharon Barak,Biography, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Accessed 02-September-2009
==Affiliations==
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Yale Law School | University of Toronto Faculty of Law | Supreme Court of Israel
==Notes==
Barak, Aharon
Aharon Yariv

Aharon Yariv (20 December 1920 – 7 May 1994) was head of Aman (Israeli military intelligence) from 1964 to 1972.Aharon Yariv, knesset.gov.il, accessed 13 April 2011.
Senator Henry Jackson met Yariv during his visit to Israel in 1970.Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2000, p.265.
After leaving the army, he joined the Alignment. He was elected to the Knesset in the 1973 elections, and was appointed Transportation Minister, and then Information Minister. He resigned from the latter post in 1975, and then from the Knesset shortly before the 1977 elections.
==Affiliations==
===Conferences===
*1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
*1988 International advisory board Political Communication and Persuasion
*1991 Director of Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
==Notes==
Yariv, AharonYariv, Aharon
Ahmed Syed

Dr Ahmed Syed is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Immunisation Co-ordinator of the Greater Glasgow NHS board. He is a member of Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). He has received industrial support from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Aventis Pasteur MSD, Wyeth, Aventis and Sanofi Pasteur MSD for work related to Hepatitis b, HPV, seasonal flu, MMR and VC vaccines. He has contributed to immunisation educational meetings organised by GSK and Sanofi Pasteur MSD without accepting personal fees. Syed is on the the Editorial Board of a newsletter/journal "Vaccine in Practice" which is published by Hayward Medical Communications and funded by Wyeth. He has been a member of expert panels for Baxter Bioscience; GSK; Novartis; Sanofi Pasteur and Wyeth; and served on medical-scientific advisory panel for the Meningitis Trust and Meningitis Research Foundation.DoH:JCVI. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST FOR JCVI MEMBERS 14 OCTOBER 2009 Accessed 15 February 2010.
==Notes==
Category: Pharma
Category:Biotech Industry
Category:Pharmaceutical Industry
Ahmet Davutoglu

From a Henry Jackson Society event profileTurkey in 2008: Profile, talk: 11 June 2008:
Dr Ahmet Davutoglu is the Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Dr Davutoglu holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Bogazici University and has chaired the Department of International Relations at Beykent University in Istanbul. He is widely considered to be Turkey’s finest mind on international affairs, and has been credited as the main driving force behind the more assertive Turkish foreign policy that has been the hallmark of Mr Erdogan’s government. He is rarely seen away from the side of Ali Babacan, the Turkish Foreign Minister, and was one of only a handful to Turks to accompany Prime Minister Erdogan on his trip to meet US President George Bush in November 2007.
==Contact, References and Resources==
===Contact===
===Resources===
===References===
Ahuva Oren-Pines

Ahuva Oren-Pines is the Vice President for Administration at the Interdisciplinary Center HerzliyaIDC Excecutive, Roni Lichtenstein, IDC Herzliya, Accessed 03-September-2009.
==Affiliations==
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
==Notes==
Oren-Pines, Ahuva
Aidan Burley

Aidan Burley was the Conservative MP for Cannock Chase from 2010 to 2015. He announced in February 2014 he would not be standing in the 2015 general election after controversy over a nazi themed stag night. Aidan Burley to quit parliament at next election after Nazi stag party row, 5 February 2014, accessed 11 May 2015. Burley was replaced by Amanda Milling. BBC News Cannock Chase, accessed 11 May 2015.
==Notes==
Burley, AidanBurley, Aidan Burley, Aidan
Aidan Campbell

Aidan Campbell (also known as Andrew Clarkson or Andy Clarkson) is an art critic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. He wrote for Revolutionary Communist Tendency and RCP publications The next step and Living Marxism in the 1980s and 1990s. He currently writes for LM network organisations Culture Wars "Profile of Aidan Campbell", Culture Wars website, accessed 2 May 2010 and Spiked.
==Publications==
*Andrew Clarkson, 'Review: Sean MacStiofain: Memoirs of a Revolutionary', in 'Revisionism, Imperialism and the State: A critique of the revisionist dogma of State Monopoly Capitalism', Revolutionary Communist Papers No. 4: 1979, London: Junius Publications, p. 33.
*Andrew Clarkson and Phil Murphy 'The Loyalist working class', in World in Recession' Revolutionary Communist Papers, No 7 July 1981. p. 27-36.
*Andy Clarkson, 'Burying Tito', Living Marxism, January 1992, No. 39.
*Andy Clarkson, 'Eta: not Spain's IRA', Living Marxism, No. 45 - July 1992, p. 33. 
*Andy Clarkson, 'The United Nations: 'beyond peace-keeping', Living Marxism, No. 52 - February 1993, p. 27.
*Andy Clarkson, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 60 - October 1993, p. 43.
*Andy Clarkson, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 65 - March 1994, p. 43.
*Sabena Reul and Andy Clarkson, 'Who killed Rwanda?', Living Marxism, No. 69 - July 1994, p. 30.
*Andy Clarkson, 'The market goes down Mexico way', Living Marxism, No. 77 - March 1995, p. 32.
*Aidan Campbell Western Primitivism African Ethnicity: A Study in Cultural Relations London: Cassell (August 12, 1997) ISBN-10: 0304700770 ISBN-13: 978-0304700776
*Aidan Campbell ‘Art: Agent or Aesthetic?’, in Dolan Cummings (ed), Art: what is it good for? (Hodder and Stoughton, 2000)
==Notes==
Campbell, Aidan