John Emerson is back from Germany, easing his way back into employment. The former ambassador, whose tenure in Berlin ended Jan. 20, plans on returning to work in the private sector, though that next step is not ironed out yet. Clearer are the roles he’ll be playing on the civic front: He will be active in the German Marshall Fund, the American Academy in Berlin, the Atlantic Council, and others. An appointee of President Barack Obama, Emerson said there is “enormous anxiety” that the United States is “backing away from the European project” under the new administration. As far as trade, he said that while the administration is rethinking trade deals, “globalization isn’t going to stop, so I think it’s not great, but it’s not disastrous.” … Patrick Soon-Shiong has been awarded the Intelligent Health Association Special Recognition Award for his leadership in health care technology. … Resolution of the Relativity Media bankruptcy has been delayed. Ryan Kavanaugh’s company has seen its U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing rescheduled on approval of a motion to switch Relativity’s status to a Chapter 7 liquidation from the present Chapter 11. The hearing, originally set for last week, has been moved to May 17, Deadline reported. … Peter Diamandis is scheduled to be honored this week with the S. Roger Horchow Award for Outstanding Public Service by a Private Citizen. The award is administered by the Jefferson Awards Foundation. Diamandis will join Sean Parker and Bob Hope as L.A.-area recipients. … Wolfgang Puck is losing a D.C. chef. Scott Drewno, who has run Puck’s Source restaurant, will be leaving to start his own venture after a decade with Puck. … It’s not only D.C. politics that find their way to Los Angeles. Bill de Blasio was to fly out for a fundraiser for his re-election bid here, according to Page 6, co-hosted by Russell Simmons, Norman Lear, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Wendy Gruel. This has Puck ties as well – it was to be held at his Spago bistro. … Talk about dying for fashion: David Agus has been making a case that uncomfortable shoes – such as high heels – can trigger low-level inflammation in the body. If that becomes chronic, he said, it makes you more susceptible to disease, including cancer. … UCLA’s Anderson School of Management will be launching a business analytics degree program in the fall. Judy Olian said the debut class of 35 would be trained to extract analytics from troves of data available in business. … Jeff Gundlach said last week that he expects the Fed to engage in a series of “old school” interest rate hikes until “something breaks.” “Confidence in the Fed has really changed a lot,” he said on an investor webcast. “The Fed has gotten a lot of respect, with the bond market listening to the Fed” as a result of economic data supporting Fed officials’ projections. … Les Moonves, who earned $56.8 million in 2015, was called the “most overpaid CEO on the S&P 500” in a report issued by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. Rosanna Landis Weaver, one of the report’s authors, told Money magazine that CBS and its shareholders are paying Moonves in unrestricted options rather than preferred performance-based awards. … Spiegel’s bounce: Snap directors agreed a couple of years ago to give Evan Spiegel a bonus of 3 percent of the company, about 37.4 million shares, when he took the business public. The stock jumped after debuting at $24 a share, only to drift down last week. Still, at $23 a share midweek, Spiegel’s bonus amounted to more than $860 million. … Another temple to the arts from Frank Gehry: The starchitecht will be overseeing the design of a renovated building that will house a museum of the collection of Bernard Arnault. The site is near Arnault’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, which opened in 2014.