USCIB Elects New Chair and Vice Chair 

New York, NY, December 15, 2025Dorothy Attwood, General Counsel, International and EVP Global Public Policy & Privacy at The Walt Disney Company, has been elected to serve as the Chair of the United States Council for International Business (USCIB) for the remainder of the 2024-2026 term.  

Attwood succeeds Eric Loeb, EVP, Government Affairs at Salesforce, who served as Chair of USCIB since fall of 2022. 

USCIB board member Gerald “Chip” Kunde, SVP of Institutional Affairs & Corporate Communications at Ferrero North America, was elected Vice Chair. Heather Kulp, Vice President, Government Affairs at Chevron, was elected to the USCIB board. 

Attwood has held multiple leadership roles at USCIB, previously serving as the organization’s Vice Chair since 2024 and as a board member since 2022. Attwood also serves on the board of The USCIB Foundation. Prior to joining The Walt Disney Company in 2010 to lead the development of Disney’s strategic global public policy initiatives and to manage the company’s privacy legal department, Attwood was SVP for Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T, another USCIB member company.  

“We are pleased to announce Dorothy Attwood as the new chair of USCIB. Dorothy has regularly demonstrated her commitment to USCIB and to our mission to power the success of US business across the globe,” said Whitney Baird, President and CEO at USCIB. “I would also like to express my gratitude on behalf of the entire organization to Eric Loeb for his many years of dedication to USCIB.” 

 

USCIB Discusses US Priorities for China’s APEC Host Year with Ambassador Casey Mace

L-R: Colin Wilhelm (Grant Thornton), Cheryl Miller (USCIB), Ambassador Casey Mace (APEC), Alice Slayton Clark (USCIB), Mike Rousek (USCIB), Michelle Huang (APEC Policy Officer, US State Department), Sam Blumenthal (BCG)

US Senior Official to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, Casey Mace, met with USCIB members last week to discuss business priorities ahead of China’s 2026 APEC host year.  

Ambassador Mace asserted that the US will continue in 2026 to promote an “America First” agenda focused on deregulation, technological innovation, and energy export promotion. He emphasized the importance of strong private sector participation in the APEC forum especially to showcase US technological advancements, best practices and commitment to the Indo-Pacific.   

Success of the Chinese host year will depend on management of the US-China relationship and on the outcome of President Trump’s scheduled visit with President Xi Jinping in China in April. Both countries will be pressed to cooperate and succeed, as China leads APEC and the United States leads the G20 in 2026. 

Alice Slayton Clark, USCIB Senior Vice President, Trade, Investment, and Digital, Mike Rousek, Vice President, Customs and Trade Facilitation, Cheryl Miller, Vice President Digital Policy, and Kristen Kaufman, Senior Vice President for Global Impact Initiatives led a discussion with members about business priorities, including on digital trade and regulation, low-earth orbit satellite policies, scam/fraud prevention and chemical regulations, among others. 

USCIB is currently in the process of developing its 2026 APEC business priorities paper and seeking member inputs which it will share with US officials in January ahead of the first Senior Officials Meeting (SOM1) in February 2026. If you would like to weigh in on this paper, please reach out to asclark@uscib.org   

USCIB Releases 2026 APEC Priorities, Focusing on Trade Facilitation, Digitalization, Health Innovation, and Sustainability Reporting

USCIB released next year’s APEC Priority Issues and Recommendations, highlighting the organization’s continued commitment to advancing open markets, regulatory coherence, sustainable development, and innovation across the Asia-Pacific region. Building on progress during the 2025 Korea host year, USCIB looks forward to engaging with China as it hosts APEC in 2026. 

USCIB is focused on improving APEC workstreams on chemicals, customs, digital, health, sustainability, and agriculture. 

The USCIB Foundation Welcomes FMC Corporation’s Gabriela Wurcel to Board of Directors

Gabriela Wurcel

USCIB is pleased to announce that Gabriela Wurcel, Global Head of External and Multilateral Affairs, FMC Corporation, has joined the Board of Directors of The USCIB Foundation. 

Wurcel brings a wealth of experience as a business negotiator, diplomat, and entrepreneur. At FMC Corporation, she leads the Global External and Multilateral Affairs team across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, advancing initiatives in sustainable agriculture, food security, and innovation. Her work involves close collaboration with the UN and other international organizations, as well as with governments and civil society worldwide. 

She also serves as Vice Chair of the Food and Agriculture Committee at Business at OECD (BIAC) and is the Co-founder of Spicy Girls Kitchen, an artisanal jam company. 

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USCIB Joins ICC Commission Meetings on Customs in Brussels, Hosts USCIB Customs Events in Midwest

L-R: Valerie Picard (ICC), Megan Giblin (USCIB), John Bescec (Microsoft & ICC), Florence Binta Diao-Gueye (ICC)

On November 21, USCIB Senior Director Customs and Trade Facilitation Megan Giblin, alongside USCIB members from IBM and Microsoft, among others, participated in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Global Customs and Trade Facilitation Commission (CTFC) meeting, hosted at the offices of USCIB member, Baker McKenzie, in Brussels.

According to Giblin, participants discussed critical customs-related challenges in cross-border trade. Chair of the ICC Global CTFC (and former USCIB CTFC Vice Chair and active Committee member) John Bescec (Microsoft), World Customs Organization (WCO) Acting Director of Tariff and Trade Affairs Gael Grooby and ICC authorized delegates to WCO technical bodies (HSC and RSC, and Technical Committee on Customs Valuation) provided insights during the plenary session, including recent developments in customs and trade and highlighted updates on the Harmonized System Nomenclature (HS), valuation and origin.

During the afternoon plenary, ICC National Committee (NC) and respective NC company members, including many USCIB members, presented outcomes and next steps to the Commission on four important issues: the green economy, improving Authorized Economic Operator (AEO)/trusted trader programs, pathways for customs valuation in the e-commerce era and the impact of a complex and fast-changing environmental and labor regulatory landscape on business.

Following the ICC Commission meeting, Giblin and USCIB members met with the U.S. attaché to the EU and Belgium to discuss Committee priorities and regional interests.

L-R: Jeff Bensing (USCIB), John Bescec (Microsoft), Megan Giblin (USCIB), Martina Kavanagh (IBM & ICC)

Prior to these meetings in Brussels, USCIB held an in-person CTFC meeting on November 14, hosted by USCIB member Google in Chicago and chaired by USCIB CTFC Chair Michelle Welsh (Google). Meeting topics included Committee priorities for 2024, forced labor, WTO and WCO matters, such sd customs classification, customs valuation, humanitarian shipments/cargo, and Committee priorities for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

USCIB also hosted a Global Trade Networking Event in Minneapolis on November 15. USCIB members and colleagues had the opportunity discuss customs and trade topics with other experts in the field during an informal evening of conversation and networking.

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