Atul Keshap
| Atul Keshap | |
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| United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka | |
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Assumed office August 21, 2015 |
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Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Andrew Mann (Acting) |
| United States Ambassador to the Maldives | |
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Assumed office August 19, 2015 |
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| President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Andrew Mann (Acting) |
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| Born | June 1971 (age 45) Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
Atul Keshap is a career United States Foreign Service Officer from Virginia. On March 26, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Keshap to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and concurrently to the Republic of Maldives. The United States Senate confirmed Keshap in that position on August 21, 2015.
Keshap served from 2013 to 2015 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, working closely with Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Desai Biswal to coordinate U.S. Government policy toward India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, and Bhutan. This diverse and strategic region contains almost 1.5 billion people and produces over $2 trillion in economic output.
From 2012-2013, Keshap served as the United States Senior Official for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a trade body whose members generate 55 percent of global GDP. Keshap was responsible for U.S. policy initiatives during the Russia and Indonesia host years and served concurrently as Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell’s Coordinator for Economic Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
From 2010 to 2012, Keshap worked with Assistant Secretary of State Robert O. Blake as Director of the Office of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Bhutan Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, managing U.S. foreign policy toward a strategically important region that comprises a fifth of the world's population.
From 2008 to 2010, Keshap was Director of the Office of Human Rights, Humanitarian, and Social Affairs in the Bureau of International Organizations of the State Department, where he helped lead U.S. efforts to frame multilateral human rights policy with regard to the United Nations system, including instructions to U.S. delegations to the Human Rights Council and the United Nations General Assembly.
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