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Jim Joseph, Cohn & Wolfe’s chief integrated marketing officer and Americas region president, has been promoted to the role of worldwide president.

The appointment, a newly created position, is effective immediately.

Joseph joined the WPP unit in 2012. He was previously president of beauty, fashion and lifestyle agency Lippe Taylor, a president and managing director at Publicis Groupe, and a senior vice president at GW Hoffman Marketing. He also previously held marketing posts at Church & Dwight and Johnson & Johnson.

As worldwide president, Joseph will be responsible for overseeing creative and business development, branding and agency marketing and leadership, as well as the agency’s Latin America region, while developing and leveraging resources, products and services that support C&W global offices.

C&W in a statement said an announcement regarding Joseph's successor for the North America president post is forthcoming.