Joe Biden Nominates Security Expert Radha Iyengar Plumb to Top Pentagon Position
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US President Joe Biden has nominated security expert Radha Iyengar Plumb for the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Conservation, the latest Indian-American to be named for a key position.
Ms. Plumb, who currently serves as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense, was nominated on Wednesday for the highest position in the Pentagon.
Prior to her appointment as chief of staff, Ms. Plumb was Director of Research and Insights for Trust and Safety at Google, where she led their cross-functional teams in business analytics, data science, and technical research.
She also previously served as Global Head of Policy Analysis at Facebook, where she focused on high-risk/high-harm security and critical international security issues.
Ms. Plumb was also a senior economist at RAND Corporation, where she focused on improving the measurement and evaluation of preparedness and security efforts within the Department of Defense.
She has also held a number of senior staff positions on national security issues at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and the White House National Security Council.
Early in her career, Plumb was an assistant professor at the London School of Economics and did her postgraduate work at Harvard. She received her Ph.D. and MS in economics from Princeton University and a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In her Linkedin profile, she describes herself as an accomplished leader with deep technical analytical skills and a proven history of working in government, academia and industry. Skilled in policy research, econometrics, trust and security issues and project management.
US President Biden will 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 nomination by an Indian-American diplomat in more than a month.
In March, President Biden nominated two Indian Americans as US envoys. He nominated diplomat Puneet Talwar as ambassador of the country in Morocco and political activist Shefali Razdan Duggal as his envoy to the Netherlands.
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