{"id":7392,"date":"2009-01-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/19\/obama-names-indian-american-lawyer-preeta-bansal-to-key-post\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T12:00:00","slug":"obama-names-indian-american-lawyer-preeta-bansal-to-key-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/19\/obama-names-indian-american-lawyer-preeta-bansal-to-key-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama names Indian-American Lawyer Preeta Bansal to Key Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/000200901201423.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 20, 2009: President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a leading Indian-American lawyer Preeta Bansal as General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of Management (OMB) and Budget at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Bansal is currently Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP in New York City. Since 2003, Bansal has also been a Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, serving as Chair from 2004-2005.<\/p>\n<p>In that capacity, Bansal participated in US diplomatic missions to Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, Hong Kong, and South Asia, and presided over a nationally acclaimed Commission study on DHS&#8217;s procedures for expedited removal of US asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 20, 2009: President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a leading Indian-American lawyer Preeta Bansal as General,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}