The US Senate has unanimously confirmed three Indian-Americans to key government positions, including one as the Trump administration’s czar on intellectual property an area of sharp differences between the US and India.
The Senate confirmed Neil Chaterjee as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Vishal Amin as Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement Coordinator in the Trump administration.
Krishna Urs was confirmed as the US ambassador to Peru.
A career foreign service officer since 1986, Urs – after Nikki Haley – is the second Indian-American to have been selected for an ambassadorial position by the administration.
Haley, a two-term former governor of South Carolina, is the US ambassador to the United Nations and holds a cabinet- level position in the administration. She is the first Indian- American to do so in any US presidential administration.
As the new IP Czar, Amin would be responsible for enforcement of intellectual property, an area of sharp differences between India and the United States.
The US today retained India on its priority watch list this year for “lack of improvement” in the intellectual property (IP) framework.
In April, the US retained India on its priority watch list for “lack of improvement” in the IP framework. However, India had termed the report as a unilateral move by the US.
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