US President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American Geeta Pasi, a career foreign service officer, as the country’s next envoy to Chad.

• Ms Pasi, who served as US Ambassador to Djibouti from 2011 to 2014, is a career member of the Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counsellor.
• She is at present the Director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources at the Department of State.
• Ms Pasi was also the Director of the Office of East African Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs from 2009 to 2011, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Dhaka, from 2006 to 2009, and Deputy Principal Officer at the US Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany from 2003 to 2006.
• Since joining the Foreign Service in 1988, Pasi has also served at posts in Cameroon, Ghana, India and Romania.
• Ms Pasi received her BA from Duke University and a MA in French Studies from New York University.

Did You Know?

• Chad is a landlocked country in northern Central Africa.
• Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Arabic and French are the official languages. Islam and Christianity are the most widely practiced religions.
• Since 2003, the Darfur crisis in Sudan has spilt over the border and destabilised the nation, with hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees living in and around camps in eastern Chad.
• Chad’s official business languages are Arabic and French, but over 100 languages and dialects are spoken.