Biden appoints 2 Indian Americans to leadership posts at US mission to UN

President Joe Biden appointed two Indian Americans Sohini Chatterjee and Aditi Gorur to the leadership team of the US mission to the UN on TuesdayThe mission said that the appointments reflect President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harriss commitment to building a talented experienced and diverse administration that looks like AmericaChatterjee who had served in former President Barack Obamas administration focusing on global development issues will be a senior policy adviserGorur an expert on UN peacekeeping will be a policy adviserBiden who has announced a return to greater involvement with international organisations appointed career diplomat Linda ThomasGreenfield as the Permanent Representative to the UN and she is awaiting confirmation by the Senate in that roleShe will succeed Kelly Craft a political appointee of former President Donald Trump who scaled back international engagementChatterjee who is a lawyer was recently on the faculty at Columbia Universitys School of International and Public Affairs and has been a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International StudiesShe has also been a lawyer with the international group at the legal firm Steptoe amp JohnsonGorur was born in Lagos Nigeria and lived in India Oman and Australia according to the US missionShe was the director of the Protecting Civilians in Conflict Programme at the think tank Stimson Center focusing on UN peacekeeping conflict prevention and the protection of civilians in armed conflict conducted field research in conflict areas like the Central African Republic the Democratic Republic of Congo Mali and South SudanBiden has named at least 20 Indian Americans to senior positions in his administration They include Neera Tanden to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget with cabinet rank Vivek Murthy to be Surgeon General and Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney GeneralNiki Haley who was the first Indian American to get a cabinet position in the US was appointed by Trump as UN Permanent RepresentativeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever