The desi who’s who in Obama administration (To go with Obama visit: All the president’s desis)

WASHINGTON - A number of Indian Americans have made their mark in the Obama administration.

Rajiv Shah - USAID administrator

Aneesh Chopra - first chief technology officer

Vivek Kundra - chief information officer

Anish Goel - senior staffer of the National Security Council

Vikram Singh - senior defence advisor to Richard Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Neal Katyal - acting solicitor general

Rashad Husain - US representative to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference

Farah Pandith - US special representative to Muslim communities

Farooq Kathwari, Sunil Puri, Amardeep Singh - all three serve on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Preet Bharara - US attorney for New York

Preeta Bansal - senior policy advisor in the Office of Management and Budget

Subra Suresh - director of the National Science Foundation

Arun Majumdar - director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in the US Department of Energy.

(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)