Tim Roemer, the former Democrat Congressman from Indiana and an ex-member of the 9/11 Commission, will be nominated by the Obama administration as the next US Ambassador to India, the prestigious US Foreign Policy magazine has said.

Roemer, 52, is currently president of the Center for National Policy (CNP), a Washington-based think tank, the magazine said on its web post yesterday. An email sent to the CNP office of Roemer was not returned.