P.V.Anandpadmanabhan
Richard Rahul Verma an Indian American who currently serves as Senior Counselor at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and the Albright Stonebridge Group is being considered to take over as the US ambassador to India.
Verma is also a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Previously, he was Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs at the Department of State from 2009 to 2011 and partner at Steptoe and Johnson LLP from 2007 to 2009.
He was Senior National Security Advisor, Counsel and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from 2002 to 2007, and an Associate at Steptoe & Johnson from 1998 to 2002 he served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1994 to 1998 he served on the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism in 2008 and has been a member of the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
He currently serves on the boards of Human Rights First, the Clinton Foundation, and the National Democratic Institute. He received a B.S. from Lehigh University, a J.D. from American University, and an L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.
