People of Indian origin holding high positions in the Obama administration:
Nisha Desai Biswal - Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia.
Atul Keshap - Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy - US Surgeon General.
Rajiv Shah - Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Puneet Talwar - Assistant Secretary of State for political military affairs.
Vikram J. Singh - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South and Southeast Asia.
Sri Srinivasan - Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the district of Columbia Circuit.
Arun M. Kumar - Assistant Secretary and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
Gargee Ghosh - Member of the President's Global Development Council.
Kal Penn - Member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Preet Bharara - US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, dubbed "Sheriff of Wall Street" by Time magazine.
Vinai Thummalapally - US ambassador to Belize, first Indian American ambassador in US history.
