Cigarette manufacturer, Lorillard, has appointed Neil Wilcox, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration science policy analyst, as senior vice president of product-related regulations and chief compliance officer. In the newly created role, Wilcox will oversee and manage regulatory affairs, including plans to achieve regulatory compliance with federal regulations such as the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

Wilcox comes to Lorillard from the FDA, where he spent 13 years as a science and regulatory expert, most recently as science policy analyst in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition since 2008.

From 1990 to 1999, Wilcox's work at the FDA included serving as senior science policy officer in the Office of Science, Office of the Commissioner. He left the FDA in 1999 to serve as director of global regulatory affairs at The Gillette Company and then as vice president of global regulatory and scientific affairs at Kimberly-Clark. At both corporations his role included developing and implementing plans to achieve global regulatory compliance for a range of products.