WASHINGTON, JULY 28, 2004
NRI, attorney Ash Jain has been appointed special
assistant in the US State Department's Bureau of Arms Control
to work on regional and strategic security issues dealing primarily
with South Asia and the Middle East.
He will serve as a special assistant in the Bureau headed by
Assistant Secretary Stephen Rademaker, Indian American Republican
Council chairman R Vijayanagar said.
Ash Jain served as Deputy Associate Director
at the Office of Global Communications. Jain previously worked
as General Counsel to the National Capital Planning Commission
and for US Senator Fred Thompson as Majority Counsel to the
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the first Indian American
to serve in such a position.
Vijayanagar praised attorney Jain and noted
that he is "the highest-ranking Indian American in the
Agency."
