Dikhyaa Mohanty 
US President Joe Biden’s administration appointed four Indian-Americans to senior positions in the crucial Department of Energy and the first Indian-American to serve in the position- Tarak Shah has been appointed as the Chief of Staff.
In a PTI report, Tarak Shah, who is an energy policy expert and has spent the last decade working on combating climate changes, will be the first Indian-American appointed as the Chief of Staff. Tarak was also at the Biden-Harris transition and was the personnel lead for the climate and science team.
As the Department of Energy, Tarak Shah announced 19 senior-level appointments stated that these talented and diverse public servants would deliver on President Biden’s goal to tackle the climate crisis and build an equitable clean energy future.
She further said that guided by their expertise, breadth of experience. Following the science, these Department of Energy appointees will contribute to creating a clean energy economy that produces millions of good-paying American jobs and safeguards the planet for future generations.
From 2014-2017, he served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the department. Shah has also worked on political campaigns, including President Obama’s senate and presidential campaigns. He had even received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and his MBA from Cornell University.
Along with Tarak Shah, Tanya Das who was the most recent a professional staff member on the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology where she worked on a range of issues in clean energy and manufacturing policy has been named as the Chief of Staff to the Office of Science.
For the position of Legal Adviser in the Office of General Counsel Narayan Subramanian has been appointed. Narayan was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at Berkeley Law, leading a project tracking regulatory rollbacks, and served as a fellow at the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins University and Data for Progress.
Shuchi Talati who was most recently a Senior Policy Adviser at Carbon180, where she focused on policies to build sustainable and equitable technological carbon removal and has also served as a policy volunteer on the Biden-Harris campaign has been appointed as Chief of Staff in the Office of Fossil Energy.
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