policymaker
noun
pol·i·cy·mak·er
ˈpä-lə-sē-ˌmā-kər 
variants
or less commonly policy maker
or policy-maker
plural policymakers also policy makers or policy-makers
: someone who is responsible for or involved in establishing policy
economic policymakers
He had been a policymaker under four Republican and Democratic Presidents and had spent years on Capitol Hill fencing with congressional committees and lobbying for votes.—
William Greider
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Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty Images European politicians and policymakers are busy preparing for more American protectionism regardless of who emerges as the next leader of the White House after elections next week.
—Silvia Amaro, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
Erika Sanders of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council hopes the center will force stakeholders and policymakers to ask tough questions that may be uncomfortable but courageous.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
And still, outside a limited cadre of activists and policymakers, none of this is the dominant narrative of American politics.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
For Asher, the hope is the Real-Time Crime Index will help provide a baseline of knowledge so that journalists, researchers and policymakers can better examine the causes of the crime trends and have more substantive debates.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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Silvia Amaro, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
Erika Sanders of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council hopes the center will force stakeholders and policymakers to ask tough questions that may be uncomfortable but courageous.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
And still, outside a limited cadre of activists and policymakers, none of this is the dominant narrative of American politics.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
For Asher, the hope is the Real-Time Crime Index will help provide a baseline of knowledge so that journalists, researchers and policymakers can better examine the causes of the crime trends and have more substantive debates.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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