Trump nominates Indian-Americans as US representative to IBRD, federal court judge and OECD envoy

United States President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-Americans for key positions in his administration.

AS REPRESENTATIVE TO IBRD

Ashok Michael Pinto has been nominated as a representative to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).

Trump had announced his intent to nominate Pinto for this position on April 9.

Pinto currently serves as Counselor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs at the United States Department of the Treasury.

Pinto was on Monday nominated as US Alternate Executive Director of IBRD for a term of two years. He, if confirmed by the Senate, would replace Erik Bethel.

Pinto was Special Assistant and Associate Counsel to President George W Bush during private practice at two international law firms. He was also a law clerk to Judge F A Little, Jr Of the United State District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

He has also held senior leadership roles in the United States Congress, including Chief Investigative Counsel and Policy Director to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in the Senate, Chief Counsel for Investigations to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives, and Special Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary in the Senate.

Bethel has resigned from the post.

AS FEDERAL COURT JUDGE

Trump also nominated an Indian-American attorney to a federal court in New York -- the judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Saritha Komatireddy is a prosecutor and teaches law at the Columbia Law School.

She has clerked under the former judge of the same district, Brett Kavanaugh.
Komatireddy is currently Deputy Chief of General Crimes in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Previously she was Acting Deputy Chief, International Narcotics and Money Laundering (June, 2018 - January, 2019) and Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator (2016-2019).

Komatireddy has served as a law clerk to then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She also served as counsel to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

On February 12 this year, Trump had announced his intent to nominate Komatireddy to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

AS OECD ENVOY

Trump has nominated senior Indian-American diplomat Manisha Singh as his envoy to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Currently Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs at the State Department, Singh will be the US representative to OECD with the rank of an Ambassador.

Paris-based OECD is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 36 member countries to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

On April 27, Trump had announced his intent to nominate Singh for this position.
Singh.

Singh has previously served as the acting under secretary of Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment and as a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs at the State Department.

She also previously served as the deputy chief counsel to the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Singh was the Senior Fellow for International Economic Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.