A Denver teacher recently elected to the school board announced Monday that she is resigning her teaching position to comply with a policy barring employees from serving on the board.
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/28/denver-teacher-resigns-conflict-of-interest/
Donald Trump has announced he will quit the business world to avoid any “conflict of interest” in what appears to be a pre-Presidential U-turn.
The billionaire property mogul made his dramatic announcement days after defending a potential mix of private enterprise and world affairs.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-quits-business-world-9365209
The IT consultant at the centre of the latest UK Wikipedia scandal has resigned his position as a trustee of the £1m charity Wikimedia UK.
The chairman of the West/Northwest Hospital Group, Noel Daly has resigned.
Last month a review by the HSE audit unit found that the appointment of a consultancy part-owned by Mr Daly to review local maternity services breached HSE financial regulations.
A Nelson County School board member abruptly resigned last week, leaving a sudden vacancy in the middle of a superintendent search.
Should have seen this one coming, right? Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple’s board today citing a conflict of interest. Apple (Steve Jobs, in fact) says that “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest.” Android and Chrome OS – something had to give, but the timing sure does make it seem like that Google Voice app rejection might have really hurt someone’s feelings.
https://www.engadget.com/2009/08/03/googles-eric-schmidt-resigns-from-apple-board-over-conflict-of/
Saying he has become a “liability” to his state, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his resignation today.
The decision comes after his resisting calls to do so for weeks from top state Democrats, editorial pages and petition-writers, in light of a conflict-of-interest scandal involving plum jobs his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, got with groups who had business before the state, while she also worked as an unpaid adviser to him on energy and economic development.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/john-kitzhaber-curious-case-governor-oregon/story?id=28945978
After some tense meetings, Coun. Matthew Green is resigning from a committee looking at licensing rental units — but not for the reason he initially thought.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/green-housing-subcommittee-1.3971272
Saying he wants to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest in his new political career, technology entrepreneur Gary Kremen of Palo Alto has resigned as chairman of a private company that sells water-related software to cities and water districts.
“Dr. Charles ‘Chip’ Groat, lead author of a study claiming there was no link between fracking and water contamination, has resigned at the University of Texas along with Dr. Raymond Orbach, the head of UT’s Energy Institute. The reason is that Groat served on the board of a drilling company and received compensation totaling over $1.5 million from that entity over the last five years including time he spent writing the study. After the Public Accountability Initiative gave the UT report a thorough beating for failing to mention this it sparked UT to recommend the report’s withdrawal. PAI said the original report was ‘based on literature surveys, incident reports and conjecture’ and criticized UT’s press from downplaying the many caveats. PAI also said conclusions of the original report were ‘tentative,’ that the press coverage was ‘inappropriately selective’ and ‘seemed to suggest that public concerns were without scientific basis and largely resulted from media bias.’ This study was also covered by Slashdot via MSNBC quoting Groat and calling fracking safe in theory but not in practice.”
https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1722207/ut-professor-resigns-over-fracking-conflict-of-interest
PwC has resigned as auditor for software vendor Xero.
The resignation, effective on Friday, removes a conflict of interest and now allows the giant accounting firm to recommend Xero’s accounting software to its other customers.
https://www.crn.com.au/news/pwc-resigns-as-auditor-for-xero-to-remove-conflict-of-interest-410050
SANTIAGO – Juan Carlos Muñoz has submitted his resignation as a director of Chilean capital Santiago’s state-owned subway operator Metro de Santiago after ‘developing conflicts of interest within the Ministry of Transport’.
A school board member has resigned about a week after she was accused of having a conflict of interest by another board member.
http://www.wnem.com/story/28135169/school-board-member-asked-to-resign-over-conflict-of-interest
Novo Nordisk board member Mary Szela has quit to avoid a conflict of interest, after the biotech she runs began developing a rival drug for fatty liver disease.
Also known as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), many pharma companies are trying to develop drugs to treat this disease, for which there are no approved therapies.
LAIKI BANK administrator Andri Antoniadi has resigned after disagreeing with the Resolution Authority over the appointment of a certain law firm to handle the case against the defunct lender’s former strongman Andreas Vgenopoulos.
http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/03/02/laiki-bank-administrator-resigns-in-conflict-of-interest-dispute/
In wake of BCCI president Shashank Manohar’s drive to eradicate conflict of interest issues from the Indian board and its affiliates, former India legspinner Narendra Hirwani has voluntarily stepped down as chairman of the Madhya Pradesh selection panel, given his son Mihir is currently representing MP in the Ranji Trophy.
The editor of a leading psychiatry journal announced last Friday (August 25) that he was stepping down after he published a paper about a treatment for depression without disclosing that eight of nine authors–including himself–had financial ties to the company that makes the device. Charles B. Nemeroff, editor in chief of Neuropsychopharmacology, a publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), will not serve another term as editor, the college told its members in an Email.
On August 28, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Bill Boyd resigned from the Saskatchewan Party Caucus, even though Boyd previously announced his resignation from the Legislative Assembly will be on Friday, September 1.
Hilde Claes, the socialist mayor of Hasselt, has resigned after more than 24 straight hours of negotiations between her party and CD&V over the political situation in the Limburg capital. Claes has been mayor of Hasselt since 2009. She will be replaced by CD&V’s Nadja Vananroye.
A long-serving Brooklyn judge will step down from the bench at the end of the year, amid a probe into conflict of interest allegations involving her law clerk.