The US-China Business Council elected Robert McDonald of Procter & Gamble as chair. Other new officers: Vice Chairs William Cohen, Cohen Group, and Gregory Brown, Motorola Solutions; Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Lynch, TE Connectivity; Of Counsel Andrew Shoyer, Sidley Austin; new board members Hamid Biglari, Citicorp; Marc Casper, Thermo Fisher Scientific; and Maurice Greenberg, C.V. Starr & Co.
Lowry Crook, counsel and chief of staff to Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinsky, departed June 1 to become deputy chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House. No replacement has been named.
Michele Woods, associate register for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office, is leaving to join the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as director of the Copyright Law Division for the Culture and Creative Industries Sector.
Kent Stevens, ex-International Trade Commission Office of Unfair Import Investigations joins McKool Smith law firm as a principal in its Washington, D.C., office.
President Obama named Fred P. Hochberg, president of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., a member of the board of trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Harry Clark and Clark McFadden, formerly of Dewey & LeBouef, have joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's corporate practice as partner and senior counsel, respectively, in Washington, D.C. Clark was previously a co-leader of Dewey's International Trade Practice and McFadden was a lawyer within that practice.
Seung Wha Chang of Korea was appointed to the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body for four years, beginning on June 1, 2012. Chang will replace Shotaro Oshima. Chang is currently Professor of Law at Seoul National University, and has been on several WTO dispute settlement panels.