New Delhi: Twenty Indian-Americans have been appointed as core members in the US President-elect Joe Biden’s team, including three as team leads. They will be responsible for evaluating the operations of the key federal agencies in the current administration to ensure smooth transfer of power.
This agency review teams are responsible for understanding the operations of each agency, ensuring a smooth transfer of power, and preparing for President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and their Cabinet to hit the ground running on Day One.
These teams are composed of highly experienced and talented professionals with deep backgrounds in crucial policy areas across the federal government.
Arun Majumdar is the team lead for the Department of Energy ART, while Rahul Gupta is the team lead for Office of National Drug Control Policy. Kiran Ahuja has been named Team Lead for Office of Personnel Management. Puneet Talwar has been named to the Department of State ART. Pav Singh has been named to two ARTs for National Security Council and Office of Science and Technology. Arun Venkatraman has been named to two ARTs Department of Commerce and USTR.
Reena Aggarwal, and Satyam Khanna have been named to the Federal Reserve, Banking and Securities Regulators ARTs; Bhavya Lal for NASA; Dilpreet Sidhu for National Security Council, Divya Kumaraiah for Office of Management and Budget; Kumar Chandran for Department of Agriculture; and Aneesh Chopra to US Postal Service. Almost all of them are volunteers.
Other prominent Indian-Americans named to ARTs are Pravina Raghavan, Atman Trivedi for Department of Commerce and Shital Shah for Department of Education; R Ramesh and Rama Zakaria for the Department of Energy; Subhasri Ramanathan for the Department of Homeland Security; Raj De for Department of Justice; and Seema Nanda and Raj Nayak for Department of Labour.
The transition team announced the agency review teams even as outgoing President Donald Trump's administration has yet to formally recognize Biden as the president-elect.
A formal recognition from the General Services Administration is needed to allow transition staff access to federal workers and much of the information they will need.
Once the GSA Administrator ascertains the results of the election, the ART members will work directly with staff in federal agencies to ensure that the incoming Biden-Harris administration is able to effectively achieve the policy goals of the President and Vice President-elect.
The ARTs will proceed by meeting with former agency officials and experts who closely follow federal agencies, and with officials from think-tanks, labour groups, trade associations, and other NGOs.
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