Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON, 23rd March. President Biden on Wednesday has announced his intention to nominate Indian-American policy expert Nisha Desai Biswal as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the US International Development Finance Corporation, according to a press statement issued by the White House.
Ms. Biswal is currently the Senior Vice President for International Strategy and Global Initiatives at the US Chamber of Commerce overseeing the US India Business Council and US Bangladesh Business Council.
She has 30 years of experience in US foreign policy and international development programs within the Executive Branch, Congress, and the private sector.
Biswal served as Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the US Department of State from 2013 to 2017,
She was in-charge of the US-India strategic partnership during the unprecedented cooperation, including the launch of an annual US-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue.
She initiated the C5+1 Dialogue with Central Asia and the US-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue during her tenure as Assistant Secretary.
Biswal was Assistant Administrator for Asia at the USAID, directed and supervised USAID programs and operations across South, Central, and Southeast Asia.
She was working as Staff Director on the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee on Appropriations as well as professional staff on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives.
Biswal served as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid and is on both the Board of the National Democratic Institute and the US Institute of Peace International Advisory Council.
She is a member of the US Institute of Peace Afghanistan Study Group and the Aspen Institute’s India-US Track 2 Dialogue on Climate and Energy, according to her bio shared by the White House.
Biswal is a graduate of the University of Virginia. She studied International Relations and Economics.
US International Development Finance Corporation is America’s development finance institution.
It partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the critical challenges facing the developing world today.
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