Kash Patel’s name as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director has been announced by US President-elect Donald Trump.
Patel will be the first South Asian and Indian-American to head America’s top investigative agency if the US Senate confirms him, which is mandatory.
The Indian American Republican politician Nikki Haley was appointed by Trump as his first administration’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Before Kamala Harris was elected vice president in 2020, Haley was the highest-serving Indian American in the US political system, holding a position equivalent to a federal cabinet.
