Indian-American Mitul Desai appointed as Senior Adviser in the U.S. State Department

Indian-American Mitul Desai, an expert in international finance law was in July 2011 appointed as Senior Adviser in the U.S. State Department's South and Central Asia Bureau to cement ties with the Diaspora groups.

Mitul will be responsible for figuring out ways to enable the US government to put together a coalition and an alliance of groups to make it easier for Indians in the Diaspora as well as other Diaspora communities to make contributions to development.

He received his B.A. in Chemistry and Philosophy at Rutgers University and his Juris Doctor (JD) from the Boston University School of Law.

Diaspora definition:

A diaspora relates the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland. It can also be described as people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location or people settled far from their ancestral homelands.