Washington, Oct 30 (Inditop.com) US President Barack Obama has appointed Suresh Kumar, an Indian-American with expertise in public-private partnership who worked as a news anchor in India for 15 years, to a key administration post in the commerce department.
Kumar, currently president and managing partner of KaiZen Innovation, was nominated assistant secretary of commerce and director general of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service in the US Department of Commerce, the White House announced Thursday.
“I am grateful that these individuals will bring their energy and expertise to my administration and look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead,” Obama said about Kumar and another new appointee.
According to the White House, Kumar served as special advisor to the Clinton Foundation where he worked with governments in Sub-Saharan Africa and corporate CEOs to establish private-public partnerships to stimulate economic development in the region.
Kumar previously served on the Group Operating Committee at Johnson & Johnson and as vice president of Consumer Products for Latin America at Warner Lambert/Pfizer.
He has published on global management and served as adjunct faculty member at the Schulich School of Business at Toronto’s York University, Bombay University and has been appointed Professor of International Business at Rutgers University EMBA program.
Between 1970 and 1985, Kumar was a news anchor on national television in India. He has an economics degree from Delhi University, an MBA from Bombay University, and is alumni of the Thunderbird International Consortium Program.
In 2004, Kumar was named Distinguished Executive-in-Residence by Thunderbird School of Global Management for his contributions to global trade.
