Another feather has been added to the cap of the Indian origin community living in the USA. Kamala Shirin Lakhdir has been appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia by the Biden administration. Kamala has 30 years of experience in serving at the State Department. She is a second generation immigrant and his father moved to the US in the 1940s to attend the University of California, Berkeley.
Kamala was the Executive Secretary of The Department of State before this new Commission. She has also served as the Ambassador to Malaysia from 2017 to 2021. Kamala first joined the Foreign Service in 1991. She has served at sensitive places like Belfast, Northern Ireland as the U.S. Consul General.
Kamala is a Harvard graduate and also holds an M.S. degree from the National War College. After graduating from Harvard, she took a teaching job in China for two years. She has always been motivated to have an international career and she credits her family for the same.
She has served as the Deputy Coordinator at the Taiwan Coordination Staff in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. She has also served in China, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
