Chief Information Officer G. Nagesh Rao works as the CIO of the Bureau of Industry and Service within the US Department of Commerce. He has also served as the Director of Business Technology Solutions at the US Small Business Administration and the Chief Technologist & Entrepreneur in Residence at the SBA as well. He has been a recipient of the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman & Hind Rattan awards from the NRI Welfare Society, and the Fed 100, and the 2019 Gears of Government accolades as well.
Nagesh has worked in but the public, private, and nonprofit sector centering around intellectual property, technology R&D, and entrepreneurial ventures. He has led numemrous policy and technology driven initiatives, and oversaw technical direction for SBA’s Covid-19 response.
Government Leaders List Government Leaders List 100% K12 Nagesh has degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Albany Law School, and University of Maryland-College Park. He is a 2004 Mirzayan Fellow of the National Academies and a 2016 USA Eisenhower Fellow. Screen reader support enabled. Nagesh has degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Albany Law School, and University of Maryland-College Park. He is a 2004 Mirzayan Fellow of the National Academies and a 2016 USA Eisenhower Fellow. Turn on screen reader support

Veena Reddy is taking on a new role as the Mission Director for India with the US Agency for International Development (USAID). She is currently a foreign service officer and is Cambodia’s Mission Director. She currently oversees a staff of 75 as well as USAID programs in the food security, environment, health, education, and more.
Veena has served as the deupty mission director in Haiti, where she oversaw post-earthquake reconstruction efforts, elections support, economic growth, and the development of a new strategy. She had also served as an assistant general counsel, covering legal matters for USAID’s programs in Asia, Middle East, and Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Veena holds a JD from the Columbia University School of Law, and has MA and Ba degrees from the University of Chicago.

Natasha Sarin has been appointed at the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department. She is working with other members of the Treasury Department on tax analysis and ensuring the rich pay their fair share.
She previously served as an assistant professor of law at UPENN, with a secondary appointment in the finance department. She has also done research with the intersection of law and finance, and the contemporary policy debates in the areas of financial regulation and tax policy.
She received her BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, and a JD and PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

Tanya Sehgal has been appointed to serve as Special Counsel and Senior Advisor of U.S. Office of Personnel. Tanya comes from Relman Colfax, a civil rights law firm. Prior to this, she spent several years working as Senior Elections Counsel on the Committee on House Administration, Coordinated Campaign Counsel for Hillary for America, and as an attorney at JPMorgan Chase and Skadden Arps. She has a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Dr. Meena Seshamani M.D. is the Deputy Administrator and Director of Center for Medicare. She will be leading the CMS Center for Medicare’s efforts serving those 65 and older, those with disabilities, and those with End-Stage Renal Disease on Medicare coverage. She has been nationally recognized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for the models and service lines under her leadership.
Previously, Meena served as the Vice President of Clinical Care Transformation at Med Star where she worked on population health and value based care. She also has decades of policy experience, recently serving on leadership of the Biden-Harris Transition HHS Agency Review Team. Additionally, she drove strategy and led implementation of the Affordable Care Act across the Department of Health and Human Services while serving as the Director of the Office of Health Reform.
Meena received her B.A. with Honors in Business Economics from Brown University, her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and her Ph.D. in Health Economics from the University of Oxford. She completed her residency training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and practiced as a head and neck surgeon at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.

Jigar Shah was most recently co-founder and President at Generate Capital, where he focused on helping entrepreneurs accelerate decarbonization solutions through the use of low-cost infrastructure-as-a service financing.
Prior to Generate Capital, Shah founded SunEdison, a company that pioneered “pay as you save” solar financing. After SunEdison, Shah served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global non-profit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change.
Originally from Illinois, Shah holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois-UC and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland College Park.

Reema Shah has been appointed as the Deputy Associate Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel.

Tarak Shah was appointed to serve as the Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Energy. Tarak is an energy policy expert who has spent the last decade working on combating climate change. At the Biden-Harris Transition, Shah was the Personnel lead for the Climate and Science team. From 2014-2017, he served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Science and Energy at DOE. Shah has also worked on political campaigns, including President Obama’s Senate and presidential campaigns.

Aisha Shah has been named as Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy. She had previously served as digital partnerships manager in the Biden-Harris Campaign.
She currently works as an advancement specialist for the Smithsonian Institution, and has previously held roles at the Corporate Fund of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Buoy, and Spitfire Strategies.
Aisha received her BA in English Language and Literature from Davidson College in 2013.

Nitin Shah provides legal advice to the GSA Administrator and other senior officials, while ensuring implementation of GSA statutory responsibilities. He also serves as the Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO), advises on the formulation and promulgation of GSA policies and regulations, oversees the agency’s litigation, and provides overall direction to the Office of General Counsel.
Shah is an experienced government lawyer, having served in various roles in the Department of Justice, including as Chief of Staff and Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Civil Division, where he oversaw high-profile litigation involving the United States. He has also served as Legal Director for the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and as Senior Counsel for Democracy Forward.
“He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law. ”

Vidur Sharma has been appointed to serve as Policy Advisor for Testing at the White House.

Daleep Singh was appointed to the Biden Administration as Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy National Economic Council Director. He was previously the executive vice president and head of the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In this role, he oversaw the group’s full portfolio, including implementing monetary policy, monitoring and analyzing global financial market developments, executing lender of last resort operations, providing financial services for foreign and international monetary authorities, providing capital market-related services to the U.S. Treasury as their fiscal agent, and administering and producing several reference rates for the U.S. money markets. He played a key role in developing and implementing the Bank’s strategic direction and priorities, and is a member of the Bank’s Executive Committee.
Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Singh was senior partner and chief U.S. economist at the global investment firm SPX Capital, from 2017 to 2019. Before that, he worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2011 to 2017, serving as acting assistant secretary for Financial Markets and deputy assistant secretary for International Affairs, helping to shape the Treasury Department’s crisis response to Ukraine, Russia, Greece, and Puerto Rico. Mr. Singh also directed the Treasury Department’s Markets Room, which provided real-time and thematic analysis for senior officials. Prior to his tenure at the Treasury Department, Mr. Singh worked for Goldman Sachs, with a focus on U.S. interest rates and currency markets, from 2003 to 2007, and again from 2008 to 2011. He was also a partner at Element Capital Management from 2007 to 2008. Mr. Singh is a former adjunct senior fellow at the Center for New American Security and the Atlantic Council. He was also an adjunct professor of geoeconomics at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Mr. Singh holds a bachelor’s degree with Duke University in economics and public policy. He also holds a master of business administration/master of public administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, with a focus on international economics.

Sabrina Singh was named the White House Deputy Press Secretary in January 2021.
Sabrina was Press Secretary to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on the Biden-Harris campaign. Prior to her role on the campaign, Singh served as a senior spokesperson for Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign and National Press Secretary for Cory Booker’s presidential campaign.She previously served as deputy communications director for the Democratic National Committee, spokesperson for American Bridge’s Trump War Room and Regional Communications Director on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
She graduated from the University of Southern California.

Varun Sivaram is senior advisor to the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John F. Kerry. A physicist, bestselling author, and clean energy technology expert, his experience spans the corporate, public, and academic sectors.
He has previously served as Chief Technology Officer of ReNew Power, a multibillion-dollar renewable-energy firm that is India’s largest, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, director of the energy & climate program at the Council on Foreign Relations, senior energy advisor to the Los Angeles Mayor and New York Governor, professor at Georgetown University, director at Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PDAC), and consultant at McKinsey & Co. He has served as a board member for Stanford University’s energy and environment institutes, as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for the Energy Transition, and as one of the 25 advisors to the UN COP26 climate conference in 2021.
His books include “Taming the Sun”—recognized as the authoritative guide to the unfolding solar energy revolution—”Energizing America,” and “Digital Decarbonization.” TIME Magazine named him one of its TIME 100 Next hundred most influential people in the world. A Rhodes and Truman scholar, he holds a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Oxford University and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.

Narayan Subramanian was appointed to serve as the Legal Advisor of the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Energy. Narayan was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment at Berkeley Law leading a project tracking regulatory rollbacks, and served as a Fellow at the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins University and Data for Progress.

Leveraging her expertise in international development, foreign policy, diplomacy, & advocacy, Fatema Z. Sumar leads efforts to fight poverty by transforming global systems in reaching vulnerable populations. In February 2021, President Biden appointed Ms. Sumar as Vice President of the Department of Compact Operations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). In this role, she will oversee all compacts which are MCC’s signature grant investment vehicle to reduce poverty through economic growth. She will manage all of MCC’s technical and regional divisions working on infrastructure, the environment and climate change, the private sector, gender and social inclusion, human and community development, land and agriculture, procurement, financial management, strategic partnerships, and contracts and grant management in Africa, Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe. She previously served as MCC’s Deputy Vice President for Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America where she managed all MCC compacts in these regions.
Prior to MCC, Ms. Sumar worked in civil society as the Vice President of Global Programs at Oxfam America where she oversaw regional development and humanitarian response to fight the injustice of poverty. She has a distinguished career in the U.S. government in both executive and legislative branches. She previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia at the U.S. Department of State where she led U.S. efforts to expand regional economic and energy connectivity. In Congress, she was a Senior Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, & the broader region and a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) at the U.S. Department of State.
Ms. Sumar sits on Advisory Boards for Princeton, Cornell, & Indiana universities. Her work has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The New Republic, The Hill, & other outlets. She is a frequent guest speaker and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Ms. Sumar graduated with a MPA from Princeton University & a BA from Cornell University. She studied abroad at the American University in Cairo. She is the proud mother of three daughters.

Mohsin Syed serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs. He previously served for over six years on Capitol Hill, including as the Majority Chief Counsel for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Minority Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security within the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Legislative Counsel for Senator Bill Nelson.
Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, Syed worked as a career Attorney-Advisor within the Department’s Office of the General Counsel, as an attorney in private practice, and as an intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Shuchi Talati was appointed to serve as Chief of Staff of the Office of Fossil Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Shuchi was most recently a Senior Policy Advisor at Carbon180 where she focused on policies to build sustainable and equitable technological carbon removal at scale. She also served as a policy volunteer on the Biden-Harris campaign.

Neera Tanden is an American political consultant and government official. She is the president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy organization where she has worked in different capacities since its founding in 2003, and most recently became its president and CEO.
She previously served as senior adviser for health reform at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In that role, she developed policies around reform and worked with Congress and stakeholders on particular provisions of President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement—the Affordable Care Act.