US appoints new ambassador to Morocco, Puneet Talwar

US appoints new ambassador to Morocco, Puneet Talwar
Saturday 19 March 2022 - 14:30

American president Joe Biden appointed Puneet Talwar ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Morocco on March 18 in Washington.

The US head of state announced several strategic ambassadorial appointments including Talwar, who was previously a senior adviser at the State Department.

The new US ambassador to Morocco has held senior national security and foreign policy positions at the State Department, the White House, and the US Senate. Talwar is also a military and security expert.

He has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Special Assistant to the President, and Senior Director at the National Security Council.

Talwar has also served as a senior professional member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, held “key roles” in the US House of Representatives and on the State Department’s policy planning staff, said the White House in a statement.

In addition, he is an advisor to the conflict resolution NGO Inter Mediate and a non-resident scholar at the Center for Security Studies, a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute, as well as a visiting fellow at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

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