Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie has been appointed as Queensland's Trade Commissioner to the Americas.
Mr Beattie, who retired from politics in September last year, is currently lecturing at a university in the United States but will take up the new $200,000-a-year role in Los Angeles in June.
Queensland made a number of other trade appointments including former Liberal leader Bob Quinn, former Labor minister Steve Bredhauer and the former Mackay mayor Julie Boyd.
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