The Agricultural Marketing Service announced five appointments to the 15-member National Pork Board. Newly appointed members representing pork producers include: Craig Mensink, Preston, Minnesota and Carl Link, Fort Recovery, Ohio. Members reappointed to the board include: Brad Greenway, Mitchell, South Dakota; Dale Norton, Bronson, Michigan; and Lisa Colby, Newburyport, Massachusetts.. The five appointees will each serve 3-year terms.
Brigida Benitez joined Steptoe & Johnson as a partner in the International Regulation & Compliance and Commercial Litigation practice in the Washington office, the firm said. Benitez most recently was chief of the Office of Institutional Integrity of the Inter-American Development Bank.
The Federal Trade Commission named Howard Shelanski, ex-Georgetown University Law Center, director of the FTC Bureau of Economics, effective July 1, replacing Joseph Farrell, who is returning to academia.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection chose Patrick Wilson as Area Port Director for the Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., port of entry, said CBP. Wilson previously was Assistant Port Director for passenger operations for CBP in Sault Sainte Marie and oversaw immigration policy, enforcement and CBP’s trusted traveler programs. Current Port Director Devin Chamberlain will take over as Area Port Director at the Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus, assuming responsibility for CBP passenger and air cargo operations for Detroit Metro,
Heidi Crebo-Rediker, ex-Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, became the Department of State’s first chief economist. The chief economist will advise on emerging economic issues.
Kevin McAleenan, U.S. Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner in Office of Field Operations, and Mike Watson, executive director for Plant Health Programs at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), were added to the Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Partnership Council. McAleenan and Watson replace CBP Assistant Commissioner Thomas Winkowski and Alan Green of APHIS.
Elizabeth Glynn, ex-Santa Monica College Small Business Development Center, will lead the California Manufacturing Technology Consulting export initiative as export advisor.
Makhtar Diop of Senegal, previously World Bank country director for Brazil, becomes the new World Bank vice president for Africa.
The International Air Transport Association said Michael Vorwerk has resigned and will end his term as president of Cargo Network Services Corp., an IATA company, effective 31 July. Vorwerk will also leave his concurrent posting as executive director of Cargo 2000, an IATA special interest group.
New officers at American Association of Airport Executives: Chair, Bruce Carter, Moline, Ill.; First Vice Chair Mark Brewer, Manchester-Boston Regional Airport; Second Vice Chair Randall Berg, Salt Lake City Department of Airports; and Secretary/Treasurer Jeffrey Mulder, Tulsa Airport Authority; First Past Chair Kelly Johnson, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport; Second Past Chair James Bennett, Abu Dhabi Airports Company.