Robert Koopman was appointed the International Trade Commission’s Director of Operations, and will oversee the investigative and research activities of the agency's Offices of Investigations, Unfair Import Investigations, Industries, Economics, Tariff Affairs and Trade Agreements, and Analysis and Research Services, said the ITC. Since July 1999, Koopman had been director of the ITC's Office of Economics, functioning as the agency's Chief Economist. Previously, Koopman worked for 15 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Williams Mullen hired Robert Zuckerman, general counsel at Horizon Lines, as Of Counsel in the firm's Virginia Beach, Va., office. Zuckerman will remain vice president-law and government affairs at Horizon Lines.
Thomas Fusco, formerly supervisory attorney in the office of unfair import investigations at the International Trade Commission, was hired as counsel at Fish & Richardson.
Barbara Linney joined the Miller & Chevalier's Export Controls and Economic Sanctions practice as a Member. Linney comes to the firm from Blank Rome. Miller & Chevalier also hired Kuang Chiang from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
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.