Lobbying World

• Greg Farmer has joined Qualcomm as its vice president of government affairs. He was senior vice president of global government relations and international trade at Nortel. Farmer was also Commerce undersecretary during the Clinton administration and served as Commerce secretary for the state of Florida.

• Anthony Coley will join Brunswick Group as a director in the firm’s Washington office. He most recently was communications director for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Coley also served as New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s (D) press secretary and later as his communications director. He also was then-Sen. Corzine’s spokesman in Washington and did communications work for former Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.).

• Mark E. Rey has been hired by The Livingston Group to work in the firm’s practice areas of defense technology, homeland security and energy and environment. Rey is the former undersecretary at the Agriculture Department. There, he oversaw the programs for the U.S. Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service. Rey also held positions with the American Forest and Paper Association and the American Forest Resource Alliance.

• Patrick McLain has joined Sanofi-Aventis as vice president of federal government affairs and policy. McLain previously was vice president of federal government relations at GlaxoSmithKline. He worked for 14 years as counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, then led by Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.).

• Timothy W. Cameron has been hired by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association as a managing director. Prior to joining the trade group, Cameron was president and chief executive officer at DWS Trust Co., a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank Americas. Before that, he was president of the Scudder Trust Co.

• Stuart Schear has been hired by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as its vice president for communications. Schear was a healthcare journalist for the PBS “NewsHour” and NBC News. He also worked in the Clinton White House press office, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, most recently, was the communications and policy executive for the Atlantic Philanthropies.

• Gregory G. Katsas will rejoin Jones Day as a partner in the firm’s Washington office working in its issues and appeals practice. Katsas served as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Division.