The Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws named Alan Price, a lawyer at Wiley Rein, as its president, replacing Gilbert Kaplan of King & Spalding. The committee works for manufacturing, technology, agriculture, mining, energy and services sectors and to make sure trade laws are not weakened through legislation or policy decisions in Congress, international negotiations or through dispute settlements at the World Trade Organization, said Wiley Rein.
Former Pillsbury Winthrop lawyer Thomas deButts joined DLA Piper's International Trade and Regulatory and Government Affairs Practices. Before working at Pillsbury, deButts worked as Export Administration Specialist in the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Robert Zoellick to join the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC after he steps down as World Bank president on June 30.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced 11 appointments to the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. Four of the appointees will serve out the remaining terms for four vacancies, and the other seven appointees will serve full 3-year terms.
Alan Wolff, former deputy U.S. Trade Representative and chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council, joined McKenna Long & Alridge as senior counsel in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. He will be a member of the firm’s international practice focusing on international trade.
The U.S. Grains Council chose Thomas Sleight as president and CEO to replace the retiring Thomas Dorr, the council said June 25. Sleight previously worked as vice president of operations and membership at the council.
President Barack Obama designated Vice Chairman Irving Williamson as Chair of the United States International Trade Commission for the term expiring June 16, 2014. Williamson had previously served as Vice Chairman of the ITC. White house press release available (here). ITC press release available (here).
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced the appointment of sixteen additional members to six agricultural trade advisory committees. Newly appointed members by committee are:
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Paul Mehler will relieve Capt. Jason Fosdick as commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Anchorage and as Captain of the Port for Western Alaska at a change of command ceremony June 22.