New officers at the ICC World Chambers Federation: Peter Mihok, Slovakia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, chair; Hamad Buamim, Dubai Chamber of Commerce, deputy chair.
Renominated by President Barack Obama to seats on the U.S. Court of International Trade: Mark Barnett, who has been deputy chief counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel for Import Administration at the Commerce Department since 2005 (see ITT's Online Archives 12071314) and Claire Kelly, a law professor at the Brooklyn Law School and chair of the Court of International Trade Bar Association (CITBA) subcommittee on trade adjustment assistance (see ITT's Online Archives 12111526).
Appointments confirmed by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Jan. 1: Michael P. Huerta as Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration; William Doyle as Commissioner, Federal Maritime Commission; Mark Doms as Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs; Polly Ellen Trottenberg as Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; Joshua Wright as a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission.
Richard Baudouin, Infinity Aviation Capital, joins board of Air Transport Services Group.
Promoted to partners in Wiley Rein international trade practice: Robert DeFrancesco and Christopher Weld.
Bill Baer, ex-Arnold & Porter, confirmed as the Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division.
The Tampa Port Authority hired Paul Anderson, ex-Federal Maritime Commission and ex-Port of Jacksonville, as the authority’s new port director and chief executive, succeeding Richard Wainio, who had held the position since March 2005.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to leave after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
Named to President Obama's Global Development Council: Mohamed A. El-Erian, Pacific Investment Management Company, chair; Richard Blum, Blum Capital Partners; Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Walmart Foundation; Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sarah Beardsley Degnan Kambou, International Center for Research on Women; James Manyika, McKinsey & Company; William Reilly, TPG, LP; Steven Schwager, ex-American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Smita Singh, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The International Chamber of Commerce names James Bacchus, Greenberg Traurig, chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy.