US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Indian-American Sumona Guha as senior director for South Asia and Tarun Chhabra as senior director for Technology and National Security, as he announced several key appointments to the National Security Council of the White House.

Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign, and serves on the transition’s State Department Agency Review Team.

Currently senior vice- president at Albright Stonebridge Group, she previously served in the state department as a foreign service officer and later on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff.

Named as senior director for Technology and National Security, Chhabra is a senior fellow at the Centre for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. He was previously a fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution.