Desi as US envoy to India? |
Desi names are being mentioned around Washington for India-related jobs even before the Donald Trump is sworn in as President. Ashley Tellis, a Mumbai-born, India-educated scholar-diplomat is being spoken of as the next American envoy to India, to succeed Richard Verma. Tellis, 55, is currently a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues. An alumnus of the University of Bombay who came to US for graduate studies at the University of Chicago, he served as senior adviser to Robert Blackwill, the US Ambassador in New Delhi during 2001-2003. He also served on the US National Security Council staff as special assistant to President Bush and was intimately involved in negotiating the civilian nuclear deal with India. The Trump administration will have at least three other Indian-Americans from the senior US foreign service cadre to choose from for jobs in Washington and beyond. Among them are Atul Keshap, who is currently the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives; Geeta Pasi, US ambassador to Chad; and Krishna R Urs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Madrid, Spain. And then, there are Indian-American political contributors and early Trump backers such as Shalabh Kumar and KV Kumar.
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