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Washington, March 22 US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Indian-American policy expert Nisha Desai Biswal as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).Biswal is presently 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 brings over 30 years of experience in US foreign policy and international development programs within the Executive Branch, Congress, and the private sector.Having served as Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the US Department of State from 2013 to 2017, Biswal oversaw the US-India strategic partnership during a period of unprecedented cooperation, including the launch of an annual US-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue.She also initiated the C5+1 Dialogue with Central Asia and the US-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue during her tenure as Assistant Secretary.Prior to that, she was Assistant Administrator for Asia at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), directing and supervising USAID programs and operations across South, Central, and Southeast Asia.She has also spent over a decade on Capitol Hill, 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 serves 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.Biswal is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she studied International Relations and Economics.The US International Development Finance Corporation is America's development finance institution. It partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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