Dev Jagadesan
Dev Jagadesan, acting president and chief executive officer of Overseas Private Investment Corp., smiles during the 2017 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, March 9, 2017. CERAWeek gathers energy industry leaders, experts, government officials and policymakers, leaders from the technology, financial, and industrial communities to provide new insights and critically-important dialogue on energy markets. Photographer: F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Biden appoints Jagadesan as acting USIDFC head

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By Arul Louis

New York, Jan 21 President Joe Biden as appointed Dev Jagadesan as the acting head of the US International Development Finance Corporation (USIDFC), the White House has announced.

With all the senior political appointees in key positions leaving office after Donald Trump’s term ended on Wednesday, Biden made interim appointments pending the Senate approval of his candidates. Most of them are career employees, rather than political appointees.

Others appointed by Biden include Foreign Service Institute Director Dan Smith as acting Secretary of State in the place of Mike Pompeo; Deputy Defence Secretary David Norquist as acting secretary succeeding Christopher Miller, who was himself in an acting role after Mark Esper quit, and Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director David Cohen as acting director in the place of Gina Haspel.

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Jagadesan, who is the deputy general counsel of the USIDFC, will be the acting CEO in place of David Boehler.

(Arul Louis can be reached at arul.l@ians.in and followed on Twitter at @arulouis)

 

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