[governance] possible replacement for Amb David Gross

[Adam Peake]

Verveer May Fill State Dept. Telecom Slot
(National Journal's Tech Daily Dose 4/23/09 11:20 PM)

In the next few months it is expected that Philip Verveer will become 
the State Department's next U.S. Coordinator for International 
Communications and Information Policy, according to sources familiar 
with the matter. Verveer will be filling the shoes of David Gross, 
who held the title of coordinator since 2001. The position also comes 
with the title of "ambassador." Sources say the White House is 
currently doing a background check of Verveer and his nomination will 
also be subject to approval by the Senate in addition to the 
administration. Verveer is currently counsel at the firm Jenner & 
Block's litigation department [bio 
<http://www.jenner.com/people/bio.asp?print=true&id=2398>]. He is 
also a member of the firm's communications practice with a focus on 
regulatory and antitrust issues.

Verveer has nearly three decades advising clients on communication 
regulatory issues before Congress, the FCC, National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration, Office of U.S. 
Trade Representative, Federal Trade Commission, the State Department, 
and the Committee on Foreign Investment. Verveer, who served in the 
military, also worked as a partner in the Washington office of 
Willkie Farr & Gallagher where he founded the firm's communications 
practice. He has also served as a trial attorney in the Justice 
Department's antitrust division, a supervisory attorney in the FTC's 
Bureau of Competition, and as the chief of the cable bureau at the 
FCC. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law 
School in 1969 and is married to Melanne Verveer, who was Secretary 
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff when she was first 
lady. President Obama has tapped her to be his ambassador at large 
for global women's issues. -- Winter Casey

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