US President appoints Indian-American Manjit Singh to key administration post

United States (US) President Barack Obama has appointed an Indian-American engineer Manjit Singh as the member of President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (PACFBNF).

PACFBNF brings together leaders and experts in fields related to the work of faith-based and neighborhood organizations in order to make recommendations to the Administration.

About Manjit Singh

Singh is the President of Agilious, a software technology consulting firm he founded in 2013.

He is an engineering graduate of Bombay University. He is the co-founder of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a national Sikh American media, policy and education organization.

He had served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation. He also had served as a Member-at-Large of The Board of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan in Washington.

Singh had received a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the State University of New York at Albany.

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