Trump Nominates Indian-American Manisha Singh as US Envoy To OECD

US President Donald Trump has nominated senior Indian-American diplomat Manisha Singh as his envoy to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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Manisha Singh is currently serving as the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs at the State Department.

Prior to that, she served as the Acting under Secretary of Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs at the State Department.

The 49-year-old has also served as the Deputy Chief Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Singh served as the Senior Fellow for International Economic Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council. She was also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Manisha Singh earned an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law. She received her B.A. from the University of Miami. She has also studied at the University of Leiden Law School in the Netherlands.