The United States Senate has confirmed the nomination of an Indian-American lawyer to a key administration position in the State Department.
President Donald Trump nominated 45-year-old Manisha Singh, an international lawyer and public policy consultant, to the position of assistant secretary of state for economic affairs in September. After her confirmation by the Senate, Ms Singh is now in-charge of the country’s economic diplomacy.
Singh- an Indian immigrant who moved to the US with her parents as a child- replaced Charles Rivkin who resigned in January after Donald Trump’s swearing-in as the US President.
She was the chief counsel and senior policy adviser to Senator Dan Sullivan. Her nomination was confirmed by a voice vote in block along with several other diplomatic nominations.
She is a former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs and has served as a senior aide to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Manisha Singh Source: Twitter
A resident of Florida, Singh's private sector experience includes practicing law at multinational law firms and working in-house at an investment bank.
She holds an LLM in International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law, and a BA from the University of Miami.
She also studied at the University of Leiden Law School in the Netherlands.
