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Arun Majumdar and Kiran Ahuja among many

South Asians in Biden’s transition team

Our Bureau

Washington, DC

wo Indian Americans
have been named to head
Tkey teams that will help
Joe Biden’s administration to
hit the ground running as soon
as he is sworn-in as president
on January 20. Arun Majum-
dar, the director of the Precourt
Institute of Energy at Stanford
University will head the team
dealing with the Department
of Energy -- which also designs,
manufacturers and tests nuclear
weapons.
The team includes Universi-
ty of California Berkely physics
professor Ramamoorthy Ra-
mesh, who is one of the 21 In-
dian Americans appointed to
teams dealing with different de- The agency review teams sulting will be a volunteer on and Seema Nanda (self-em-
partments and agencies. are formed to ensure “a the consumer Financial Pro- ployed) volunteer will be
smooth transfer of power,” ac- tection Bureau. on Department of Labor
cording to the Biden-Harris • Shara Mohtadi will volun- team, which will also review
the second is Kiran Ahu- transition organisation. teer on the Council on Envi- the Equal Employment Op-

ja, who is slated to be the The transition team in their ronmental Quality. portunity Commission, the
statement also touted diver- • Pravina Raghavan, Execu- Federal Mine Safety and
head of the team dealing sity among the ranks – not- tive Vice President, Empire Health Review Commis-
sion, the Pension Benefit
with the federal adminis- ing that more than half of the State Development, will vol- Guaranty Corporation, the
agency review team members
unteer on the Department
tration’s human resources would be women and about of Commerce team, which Federal Labor Relations
agency, the federal inves- 40 percent would “represent will also review the export Authority, the National Me-
communities historically un- import bank. Also on the diation Board, the Federal
tigation office for the civil derrepresented in the federal team will be Atman Trivedi Mediation and Concilia-
from Hills and Company and
service and the protection government.” Arun Venkataraman from tion Services, the Railroad
Those include minorities,
Retirement Board, and the
of whistleblowers. Ahuja people with disabilities and Visa, amongst others. National Labor Relations
has been a civil rights law- members of the LGBT com- • Shital Shah (American Fed- Board.
munity, the transition team eration of Teachers) along • Sanah Baig of the Good
yer who worked as chief of said. with Emma Vadehra, senior Food Institute and Kumar
staff at the office of Per- Several prominent mem- fellow at TCF and the ex- Chandran of the Food Corps
bers of the Obama adminis- ecutive director of Next100, will volunteer on The United
sonnel Management and tration have roles on the Pres- a pop-up think tank for the States Department of Agri-
culture team which will also
as executive director of ident-elect’s transition teams, next generation of policy review the Farm Credit Ad-
leaders, will volunteer on the
including prominent South
the White House initiative Asian Americans. Education Team. ministration and the Federal

on Asian Americans and • Aneesh Chopra, the first fed- • Meena Seshamani from Agricultural Mortgage Cor-
poration.
MedStar Health and Cyrus
eral Chief Technology Of-
Pacific islanders in Pres- ficer in the Obama admin- Shahpar from Resolve To • Rumana Ahmed from the
ident Barack obama’s Ad- istration, will be in the U.S. Save Lives will volunteer on National Democratic Insti-
tute will serve on the Unit-
Postal Service review team.
the Department of Health
ministration. • Ashwin Vasan, Principal and and Human Services team. ed States Agency for Global
Founder of Sophant Con- • Raj Nayak (self-employed) Media team.

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