The State Department's Sajit Gandhi will join the professional staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to be Chairman Howard Berman's (D-CA) new lead advisor on all things South Asia, The Cable has confirmed.
Gandhi, a young and well-respected foreign affairs officer, currently works in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research covering South Asia and before that was on Af-Pak envoy Richard Holbrooke's staff.
He replaces Jasmeet Ahuja, Berman's previous South Asia advisor, who played a large role in the crafting of the $7.5 billion Kerry-Lugar-Berman Pakistan assistance package passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama earlier this year. She began her studies at Stanford Law School this month.
Gandhi started out at State in 2004 as a foreign affairs officer, entering the diplomatic corps through the Presidential Management Fellowship program. Gandhi served as the action officer for South Asia in the office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism and as the political officer at the U.S. embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was also an advisor on South Asia in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, where he received a Meritorious Honor Award for his work on the State Department's annual country reports on human rights.
He has also worked as an associate for the Cohen Group, a Washington-based business consulting firm, and as a research associate for the National Security Archive. He holds a master's degree from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and a bachelor's degree from the Elliott School at the George Washington University. He is married to Bhumika Gandhi and the couple just welcomed to the world their first child, a beautiful girl named Seva.
Congrats to Sajit and the whole Gandhi family!
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