Indian-origin Radha Iyengar Plumb has been nominated to a top Pentagon post by US President Joe Biden. Plumb, serving as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Minister of Defense, has been nominated for the post of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. Plumb is known in America as an accurate planner and thorough analyst. Since completing her studies in 2006, she has served at several important institutions, including leading global companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as world-renowned educational institutions such as the London School of Economics and Howard University.
Plumb, 41, completed his PhD in economics from Princeton University in New Jersey from 2020 to 2006, after majoring in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge from 1998 to 2002. After graduation, in August 2006, Iyengar began working at Harvard University in Cambridge as an RWJ Health Policy Scholar. After that he started working as an assistant professor at the London School of Economics in England in 2008. The London School of Economics is considered one of the best educational institutions in the world.
In the year 2011, she was Academic Advisor in Plumb Research Institute RAND Corporation. It was only a year after Plumb worked in this position, when he was assigned a key responsibility at the Pentagon and was made policy advisor to the assistant secretary. A year later, he took an important responsibility in the White House. In the year 2017, she became the Head of Research in User Safety and Research Management at Facebook. After one year of service, he was made Head of Product Policy Research and in August 2019 he assumed a key role as Global Head of Policy Analysis, where he addressed issues related to high risk/high loss, critical and critical international security issues. worked to cope.
Plumb then moved on to Google, and prior to her appointment as Chief of Staff, she was the Director of Research and Insights for Trust and Security at Google, leading the team for business analysis, data science and technical research. Plumb has also served in several senior positions on national security issues in the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Energy and the White House National Security Council.
Holding top positions in various government and private companies, Plumb helped to develop policies to reduce social evils such as sexual assault and suicide, as well as gain control of the situation in the Middle East during peace and withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan. also played an important role. He has also contributed to the writing of the book ‘Availability of Family Violence Services for Military Service Members and their Families’ published by RAND Corporation in January 2020. Plumb is one of the nine authors of this book.