President Barack Obama has selected John Bryson, the former chairman of US energy group Edison International, to be commerce secretary, finalising the transformation of his economic team and adding a voice from corporate America to his cabinet.
Mr Bryson – who serves on the boards of Walt Disney and Boeing, and is a senior adviser to KKR, the private equity group – replaces Gary Locke, the former governor of Washington and nominated to be US ambassador to China.
In advance of the formal announcement on Tuesday, a White House official said Mr Bryson would bring “decades of knowledge and experience in the public and private sectors, and [would] provide valuable ideas and initiatives to strengthen America’s competitiveness around the world”.
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