NEW YORK: The United States President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-American Maju Varghese, as his deputy assistant and Director of the White House Military Office. Varghese was serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Biden campaign.
As the Director of the White House Military Office, Varghese will oversee military support, which includes providing medical support, emergency medical services, and presidential transportation and organizing official ceremonies and functions.
After managing the logistics for the election campaign of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Varghese became the executive director of their inauguration -- the swearing-in ceremonies and the festivities around it.
He was former President Barack Obama's special assistant and the deputy director of advance, a position in which he worked on organising his travel in the US and abroad. One of those assignments was organising Obama's 2015 historic trip to India for the Republic Day celebrations.
Varghese later became assistant to the president for administration and management overseeing the White House complex in the Obama administration. His appointment as the Military Office Director was reported by Politico on Monday and Varghese has posted it on LinkedIn.
Varghese's parents immigrated from Thiruvalla, Kerala, to the US, where he was born, and he is a lawyer by training. He is one of more than 20 Indian-Americans appointed to senior positions in the Biden administration
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