The Walt Disney Company announced that it has named Geoff Morrell to the newly created position of Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, with oversight of the entertainment company’s Corporate Communications, Global Public Policy, Government Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) teams, it was announced by Bob Chapek, the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Morrell will assume his new role on January 24, 2022 and report directly to Chapek. Under the new leadership structure, the company’s head of Corporate Social Responsibility will report to both Morrell and Chapek. A new head of Corporate Communications will be named following Morrell’s arrival. Morrell assumed his new role at bp in 2020, overseeing the company’s global communications, government relations and advocacy, and prior to that he was bp’s Group Head of Communications & External Affairs from 2017. Morrell joined bp in 2011 as Vice President, U.S. Communications and in 2013 became Senior Vice President, U.S. Communications & External Affairs. From 2007 to 2011, Morrell served as Pentagon Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, serving as the chief spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the U.S. military. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and continued to serve under President Barack Obama. Before entering public service, Morrell was a White House correspondent for ABC News from 2004 to 2007.