US President-elect Joe Biden Names Two Indian-Americans in National Security Council
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US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Indian-American Sumona Guha as senior director for South Asia and Tarun Chhabra as senior director for Technology and National Security, as he announced several key appointments to the National Security Council of the White House. Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign, and serves on the transition s State Department Agency Review Team.
Currently senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group, she previously served in the State Department as a foreign service officer and later, on the Secretary of State s policy planning staff where she focused on South Asia. During the Obama-Biden administration, she was special advisor for national security affairs to then Vice President Biden. Guha is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University.
Biden touts gender parity and diversity of his Cabinet By: CNN
By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) President-elect Joe Biden on Friday introduced key nominees for his economic and jobs team, including Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary.
The two picks mark the completion of Biden s announcements for his Cabinet secretary nominees, and come less than two weeks from the President-elect s inauguration.
Biden touted the diversity and historic firsts in his Cabinet, and said he had fulfilled his promise of having his Cabinet look like America. This will be the first Cabinet ever that is evenly composed with as many women as men in the Cabinet. This will be the first Cabinet ever with the majority of people of color occupying this Cabinet, the President-elect said. He noted his nominees would, if confirmed, include the first female treasury secretary, the first African Amer