He has overseen projects for high-end brands such as Mark Warner, worked super yachts and hotels in Corsica, and was the 2014 slope-style ski champion of Great Britain.
Ken Hackett, executive director of Catholic Relief Services, described Mr. Klink as dedicated to refugee work and as an official who had chosen to serve in "hardship posts" and who had overseen important projects in the agency's headquarters.
But he couldn't be sure, since his assistant had overseen the project.
While officials said the decision to end the deal was made by Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris, it was announced in a brief statement by the Parks and Recreation Department, which had overseen the project.
With the assistance of Clement Conger, who had overseen a similar project at the State Department, she directed the refurbishing of several state rooms in the White House.
The project even found and hired Malcolm Rice, a quarry supervisor who had overseen the original 1941 gallery project.
The unsuccessful rescue mission came three weeks after Norgrove was seized by insurgents in the mountainous province of Kunar, near the Pakistan border, on her way to view an irrigation project she had overseen.
Joshua J. Sirefman, the Bloomberg administration official who has overseen redevelopment projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, is now the interim president of the Economic Development Corporation, officials said yesterday.
A Treasury spokeswoman said details of O'Neill's responsibilities would be announced shortly; past commercial secretaries have overseen infrastructure projects, regulation and foreign investment, among other policy areas.
Warren Singleton, a geotechnician who has overseen grading projects that have allowed tens of thousands of hillside homes in Orange County, says moving 10 million yards of dirt for this project would be perilous.
Alan Stern has overseen ambitious projects from NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission to Moon Express's attempt at a privately developed lunar landing.
