Akin Gump hired Alan Yanovich, previously counselor at the World Trade Organization Appellate Body Secretariat, as senior counsel in the firm's Geneva office, it said.

Paul Delaney, previously International Trade Counsel to Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, joined Kyle House Group over the summer, according to a bio on the consulting firm's website.

Emily Beline is leaving her position as the Canadian Embassy's senior policy officer for border and consumer product issues, effective Oct. 25, she said. Beline will join CBP as an attorney advisor in the agency's Office of Regulations and Rulings on Nov. 4, she said.

Scott Kieff was sworn in Oct. 21 as a commissioner of the International Trade Commission. Kieff, formerly a law professor and before that a trial and patent lawyer, will serve a term expiring June 16, 2020.

Susan Kuhbach, an office director at Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations within the Commerce Department, retired. Her last day was Sept. 30.

H.W. St. John hired Gregory Manciocchi, previously an operations manager for Mohawk Global Logistics, as an air import expeditor.

The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Board of Directors reelected Ambassador Alan Wolff to continue to serve as NFTC Chairman, a position he initially assumed in 2011, the NFTC send in a press release on Oct. 9. Wolff is Senior Counsel at McKenna Long & Aldridge. “Alan’s expertise and counsel have been invaluable in guiding and shaping the NFTC’s trade advocacy efforts in many areas, and he is an asset to the NFTC and our members," said NFTC President Bill Reinsch. Wolff is also co-chair of the Innovation Policy Forum of the National Academies’ Science Technology and Economic Policy Board, a National Associate of the National Academies, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He worked at the Office of U.S. Trade Representative in the Nixon and Ford administration.

Peter Rose, CEO of Expeditors International, will retire on March 1, the company said in a press release. The company will announce the new CEO in conjunction with the company's managers' meeting in January, it said. Rose is expected to remain as Chairman of the Board of Directors up until the annual meeting in May 2015, the company said.

Williams Mullen hired Christopher Stagg, previously a senior policy advisor with the U.S. State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, the firm said.

King & Spalding hired Alejandro Jara, former deputy director general at the World Trade Organization, as senior counsel in the WTO and international trade practice of its Geneva office.