Indian-American to quit Obama admn

“It was with mixed emotions that I informed President Barack Obama and Secretary of State (John) Kerry that I will step down as Administrator in mid-February 2015,” Shah, 41, said in a statement yesterday. 

Thanking Shah, who headed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), President Obama said in a statement: “Shah has been at the center of my administration’s efforts to advance our global development agenda as the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).” 

“To be sure, his tasks have never been easy — responding to natural disasters, epidemics, and famine, to name just a few examples,” he said yesterday. “But Shah, the son of proud Indian immigrants, has embodied America’s finest values by pro-actively advancing our development priorities, including ending global poverty, championing food security and promoting health and nutrition,” Obama said. — PTI