White House says Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator...

White House says Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein is departing … Named to FCC 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee: Scott Blake Harris, Neustar, chairman; Diane Cornell, Inmarsat, vice chairman; Alex Roytblat, agency’s International Bureau Strategic Analysis and Negotiations Division, designated federal official to the panel … FTC appointments: Andrew Gavil, ex-Howard University School of Law, named director of Office of Policy Planning, replacing Susan DeSanti, who moved to San Francisco and agency’s Western regional office; Steven Bellovin, ex-Columbia University, named chief technologist, replacing Edward Felten, returning to Princeton University; and Richard Brunell, ex-American Antitrust Institute (AAI), named senior adviser for competition matters, with the hires effective Sept. 4; until then OPP Deputy Director Tara Isa Koslov is acting OPP director; William Efron promoted to director of Northeast regional office … At AAI, Senior Counsel Randy Stutz promoted to also head its amicus program in absence of Brunell; and Sandeep Vaheesan elevated to special counsel … Disney promotes Peter Seymour to executive vice president-chief financial officer, Disney/ABC Television Group, new position.