Two Indian-Americans Named In White House National Security Council

Washington: The United States President-elect Joe Biden named two Indian-Americans — Sumona Guha and Tarun Chhabra — among several key appointments to White House’s National Security Council.

Sumona Guha was appointed as senior director for South Asia while Tarun Chhabra was picked as senior director for Technology and National Security.

According to news agency ANI, Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign and serves on the transition’s State Department Agency Review Team.

Currently Albright Stonebridge Group’s senior vice president, Guha earlier served as a foreign service officer in the State Department and later as the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff where her focus was on South Asia.

She was also the special advisor for national security affairs to then vice president Biden in the Obama-Biden administration.

Chhabra is a senior fellow at the Centre for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.

Earlier, he was a fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, the agency reported.

Chhabra also served on the National Security Council staff during the Obama-Biden Administration. He worked as a director for Strategic Planning and director for Human Rights and National Security Issues. He served at the Pentagon as a speechwriter to the Secretary of Defence.