Manisha has over 25 years of public and private sector experience in business, finance and trade. She currently provides strategic advisory services for companies. She sits on the board of advisors for the American Foreign Policy Council. She is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University.
She is a former Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs at the U.S. State Department. She also served as Acting Undersecretary of State and she was nominated to be U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She was previously Deputy Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In addition to government, she was a senior executive at J.P. Morgan Chase. She is an attorney and has practiced corporate law at Reed Smith and Squire Patton Boggs.
Manisha has a B.A. from the University of Miami and a J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law. She studied international law at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands and has an LL.M in International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law. She has bar admissions in Florida, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania. She speaks fluent Hindi and conversant Spanish.
Posted by American Security Project
Feb 28, 2023 | Read More
