US President Joe Biden nominated Indian-American Nisha Desai Biswal to a pinnacle administrative function withinside the US International Development Finance Commission, the White House stated Monday.
Ms Biswal, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia in the course of the Obama Administration, brings over 30 years of labor revel in in US overseas policy, global improvement packages withinside the Executive Branch, Congress, and the personal sector.
She is presently Senior Vice President for International Strategy and Global Initiatives on the US Chamber of Commerce, overseeing the United States India Business Council and the United States Bangladesh Business Council.
Ms Biswal served as Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs on the US Department of State from 2013 to 2017, in which she oversaw the United States-India strategic partnership in the course of a length of remarkable cooperation, which include the release of an annual US-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, the White House stated.
She additionally initiated the C5 1 Dialogue with Central Asia and the United States-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue in the course of her tenure as Assistant Secretary.
Prior to that, Ms Biswal became Assistant Administrator for Asia on the US Agency for International Development (USAID), directing and supervising USAID packages and operations throughout South, Central, and Southeast Asia.
She has additionally spent over a decade on Capitol Hill, operating as Staff Director at the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee on Appropriations in addition to expert personnel at the Foreign Affairs Committee withinside the House of Representatives.
Ms Biswal serves because the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid and is on each the Board of the National Democratic Institute and the United States Institute of Peace International Advisory Council.
She is a member of america Institute of Peace Afghanistan Study Group and the Aspen Institute`s India-US Track 2 Dialogue on Climate and Energy. Ms Biswal is a graduate of the University of Virginia, in which she studied International Relations and Economics, the White House stated.