Biden to Nominate Comcast Executive David L. Cohen as Ambassador to Canada Cohen has served as a Comcast executive, most recently as Senior Advisor to the CEO, in addition to his long career in city government, as a lawyer and at the University of Pennsylvania By Hannah Gross •
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President Joe Biden has announced plans to nominate Comcast executive David L. Cohen to serve as ambassador to Canada.
Cohen previously served as senior executive vice president of Comcast, and is currently a senior advisor to the CEO. Comcast is the parent company of NBC, including NBC10 and Telemundo62.
Biden nominates Victoria Kennedy for Austria ambassadorship
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FILE - In this May 7, 2017 file photo, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, arrives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum before the 2017 Profile in Courage award ceremonies. President Joe Biden is nominating the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy to serve as his ambassador to Austria Kennedy, an attorney and a gun control advocate, came to know Biden during the years he served with her husband in the Senate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is nominating Victoria Kennedy, an attorney and the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy, to serve as his ambassador to Austria. He s naming a top political fundraiser Comcast executive David Cohen to serve as his ambassador to Canada, the White House said Wednesday.
21 juillet 2021
WASHINGTON Le président Joe Biden a nommé David Cohen, un cadre du secteur technologique qui a déjà été chef de cabinet du maire de Philadelphie, pour être son ambassadeur au Canada.
M. Cohen, un avocat, lobbyiste et collecteur de fonds qui est actuellement conseiller principal du patron du géant américain des communications Comcast, était depuis longtemps un candidat pressenti.
En plus d’un certain nombre de rôles dans divers départements de Comcast, une biographie de la Maison-Blanche indique que M. Cohen a également été directeur de la diversité de l’entreprise.
Mais il n’est pas étranger aux milieux politiques: en plus d’être le principal lobbyiste de l’entreprise, M. Cohen a passé cinq ans en tant que chef de cabinet du maire de Philadelphie, Ed Rendell, dans les années 1990.
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