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    Obama Nominates Nisha Desai Biswal to Key USAID Post

    By Ma. Rizza Leonzon // 02 July 2010

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    U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Nisha Desai Biswal as assistant administrator for Asia in the U.S. Agency for International Development. Biswal, an Indian-Americam, currently serves as a majority clerk for the State Department and House Foreign Operations Subcommittee. She has also previously worked as special assistant to the USAID administrator, the Press Trust of India reports.

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