Lobbying world Alex Gangitano Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) will join Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's public policy and government affairs group as a senior policy adviser. Carnahan served in Congress from 2005 to 2013. Joyce Rogers was named Pfizer's vice president of U.S. policy and public affairs. She previously was chief government affairs officer at Advocate Aurora Health and before that was senior vice president of government affairs at AARP. BGR Group added former NATO Ambassador Douglas Lute, who served during the Obama administration, as chairman of the firm's international and defense practices. Lute was NATO ambassador from 2013 to 2017 and before that was assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan during the George W. Bush administration.