Vinay Singh has been nominated as Chief Financial Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Kalpana Kotagal is the nominee for Commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate two Indian-Americans to key administration positions.
Vinay Singh has been nominated as Chief Financial Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Kalpana Kotagal is the nominee for Commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
A Certified Public Accountant, Singh is currently senior advisor to the Administrator at the US Small Business Administration (SBA).
Singh also served in the Obama-Biden administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary (US Field). He played a key role in leading trade and investment policy and promotion efforts to better market conditions for US companies.
Earlier, Singh was a Partner and Chief Operating Officer for Infrastructure Practice at KPMG in India.
Kotagal, the daughter of immigrants from India, is a partner at Cohen Milstein, a member of the firm’s Civil Rights & Employment practice group, and co-chair of the firm’s Hiring and Diversity Committee. She is co-author of the seminal legal template ‘Inclusion Rider’.
Kotagal is also a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert, and represents disenfranchised people in employment and civil rights litigation.
Indian American Impact, the nation’s leading civic Indian American and South Asian organisation, welcomed the nomination of Kotagal to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“Kotagal is an exceptionally talented litigator who has been a fierce advocate for employment equity and civil rights,” said Neil Makhija, executive director of Indian American Impact.
“She has broken barriers as one of the first South Asian women to become a law partner in the plaintiffs’ bar and has been a leading voice in the national conversation on diversity, equity and inclusion. We are proud to give our emphatic support to her nomination and look forward to celebrating her confirmation,” Makhija said.
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