US President Joe Biden nominated Indian-American Radha Iyengar Plumb to a top Pentagon position. Currently serving as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Ms Plumb was, on Wednesday, nominated to the post of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.
Prior to her appointment as Chief of Staff, Ms. 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. She has 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.
In October 2011, she joined American non-profit global policy think tank RAND Corporation as senior economist. There, she focused on improving the evaluation of readiness and security efforts across the Department of Defense.
Plumb was also a Health Policy Scholar at the Harvard University from August 2006 to August 2008. 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. The Indian origin office bearer received her PhD and MS in Economics from Princeton University and holds a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Meanwhile, POTUS is all set to nominate Indian-American career diplomat Gautam Rana as the new US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Slovakia, the White House said in a statement last month. Biden nominated Indian-American diplomat Rachna Sachdeva Korhonen as his envoy to Mali in April, the third such nomination of an Indian-American in over a month.
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