The U.S. Senate has confirmed yet another Indian American nominee of President Barack Obama to lead the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Commerce Department charged with helping U.S. companies succeed in markets around the world. Kerala University physics graduate Arun M. Kumarwas confirmed to be assistant secretary of commerce...
President Obama appoints Hindi speaking Ambassador to India
Former Congressman Dr. Tim Roemer is returning to the USA from his two years as the US Ambassador to India. Replacing him in New Delhi will be Los Angeles native and bow-tie wearing Dr. A. Peter Burleigh. A distinguished career U.S. Foreign Service officer who served as Ambassador and Deputy...
Secretary Gary Locke talks up National Export Initiative in Los Angeles
In 2010 American exports to Asia exceeded shipments to the Europe for the first time ever. Yesterday, I met U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke who was in Los Angeles to promote President Obama's National Export Initiative (NEI), which seeks to double American exports to $2 trillion by 2014. Speaking at...
To Samalkot from Schenectady, Obama mentions India again at General Electric plant
When I was part of the Presidential Executive Mission to India last November, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and Boeing CEO Jim McNerney flanked Barack Obama in his first public appearances in Mumbai. Immelt's GE Energy unit had just won its largest order in India to supply six gas turbines,...
India in Obama's State of the Union twice: my amplifications
Last night U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned India twice in his annual State of the Union speech. While both allusions were appropriate, they missed the point a bit. First he said, "Meanwhile, nations like China and India realized that with some changes of their own, they could compete in this...
Obama suitmaker owned by Indian company
File this blog entry under "trivia". In the past, I have written about how an Indian company, Tata Motors, now owns the Land Rover company, which makes cars for the Queen of England. Corporate India's long arm now extends to the White House as well, since President Obama's favored suitmaker,...