♦ US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American Kash Patel to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

♦ He served as chief of staff to the Acting United States Secretary of Defense in the last few weeks of the Trump Administration in 2017. 

♦ New York-born Mr. Patel has his roots in Gujarat. However, his parents are from East Africa — mother from Tanzania and father from Uganda. They came to the U.S. from Canada in 1970.

♦ With this appointment, Patel became the second Indian American to be picked in his cabinet.

♦ Previously, Trump picked Indian-American scientist Jay Bhattacharya as the director of the National Institutes of Health, the country’s top health research and funding institutions.