US President Joe Biden has nominated an Indian-American security expert바카라 웹사이트to a top Pentagon position. On June 15, the White House nominated Indian-American official Radha Iyengar Plumb for the position of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.
Plumb's was among the names of바카라 웹사이트five nominees announced for바카라 웹사이트leadership positions in the바카라 웹사이트Biden바카라 웹사이트administration.
Who is바카라 웹사이트Radha Iyengar Plumb?
A former바카라 웹사이트assistant professor at the London School of Economics, Plumb did her postdoctoral work at Harvard and has a바카라 웹사이트PhD and MS in Economics from Princeton University. She also바카라 웹사이트holds a BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Plumb is currently serving as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Biden administration.
Prior to her appointment as Chief of Staff, Plumb was the Director of Research and Insights for Trust and Safety at Google, leading their cross-functional teams on business analytics, data science and technical research.바카라 웹사이트 According to reports, she is skilled in econometrics바카라 웹사이트and바카라 웹사이트policy research, project management as well as handling바카라 웹사이트trust and safety issues.
She had also previously served as the Global Head of Policy Analysis at Facebook, where she focused on high-risk/high harm safety and critical international security issues.바카라 웹사이트
Plumb was also a senior economist at RAND Corporation where she focused on improving the measurement and evaluation of readiness and security efforts across the Department of Defense.바카라 웹사이트
She has also held a number of senior staff positions on national security issues at the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and the White House National Security Council.바카라 웹사이트
Indians in Biden administration
Plumb joins a long list of Indian-Americans who are part of the Biden administration.바카라 웹사이트Biden, who was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, has created history by appointing at least 55 Indian-Americans to key positions in his administration. This does not include Vice President Kamala Harris, which is an elected position, and Neera Tanden, who a day earlier withdrew her nomination from the position of Director of White House Office of Management and Budget.
In March 2021, during a바카라 웹사이트virtual interaction with NASA scientists who were involved in the historic landing of Perseverance landing at Mars. Bidem had said,바카라 웹사이트 "Indian-of-descent Americans바카라 웹사이트are taking over the country," referring to " you Swati Mohan), my Vice President (Kamala Harris), my speech writer (Vinay Reddy)".바카라 웹사이트Mohan leads the guidance, navigation, and control operations of NASA's Mars 2020 mission.
Plumb isn't the only Indian named by the Biden administration for a top official post. According to reports, the US President is set to nominate Indian-American career diplomat Gautam Rana for the role of US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Slovakia.
(With inputs from PTI)
