Washington sources reported that the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the decision-making body of the Democratic Party in the US, has tapped Indian American Seema Nanda to serve as its new CEO and handle day to day operations, making her the first from the community to be named an operational head of a key American political party. Meanwhile Nanda is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the largest human and civil rights organization in the US.
Meanwhile as CEO, Nanda will manage the day to day operations of the organization. The DNC coordinates strategy to support the party’s candidates throughout the country for local, state and national office. Furthermore as mid-term elections continue and the 2020 elections draw closer, hiring the management oriented Nanda is a move away from more explicitly political executives who have led the troubled party in the past.
Previously Nanda worked as Perez’s chief of staff
at the US Department of Labor. She replaces interim CEO Mary Beth Cahill, who
took the helm of the DNC in February after replacing Jess O’Connell, a seasoned
operative who left after less than a year on the job.
