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Richard Rahul Verma President Barack Obama nominated former State
Department official Richard Verma, an Indian-American, as U.S. ambassador to
India. If confirmed by Congress, Verma would become the first-ever
Indian-American Ambassador to India. Verma, 45, is currently a senior counselor at
Steptoe & Johnson law firm in Washington D.C. and was earlier assistant
secretary of state for legislative affairs at the State Department in the
Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. Like other immigrants, his father, now 82, left his
wife and kids behind in India, and arrived in New York in 1963 hoping for a
better future. The family joined him a few years later. He taught English
Literature at the University of Pittsburgh for 40 years, while his mother
became a special needs school teacher. Richard Rahul is the youngest of five
siblings. “I have been fortunate to have a very American upbringing with
strong South Asian values and traditions.” Verma has served in the military, worked on the
Hill, and has also had hands-on experience in South Asian matters. He has
spent time in Pakistan and Nepal; worked extensively on Afghanistan; and
also worked on issues related to India where he still has family ties.
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