Obama appoints Indian american RO Khanna

As deputy assistant secretary in dept. of commerce


Sep 17, 2009

US President Barack Obama has appointed Indian-American attorney Ro Khanna to a key post in the US commerce department, where he will work to open foreign markets to the US technology. Khanna, 32, a prominent attorney who specialized in intellectual property law at O'Melveny & Myers' San Francisco office, was sworn in as deputy assistant secretary for domestic operations of the US and foreign commercial service, international trade administration. Among his duties will be to lead trade missions to countries like India and China.

Since his loss in 2004 to Congressman Tom Lantos, Khanna has remained active in Democratic party politics. Most recently, he was the chair of the Indo-American Council of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.


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