Kiran Ahuja
Kiran Ahuja | |
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Official portrait, 2021 | |
| Director of the Office of Personnel Management | |
| In office June 24, 2021 – May 6, 2024 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Deputy | Rob Shriver |
| Preceded by | Dale Cabaniss |
| Succeeded by | Scott Kupor |
| Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders | |
| In office December 2009 – November 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Jimmy D. Lee |
| Succeeded by | Doua Thor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kiran Arjandas Ahuja June 17, 1971 India |
| Party | Democratic |
| Education | Emory University Spelman College (BA) University of Georgia (JD) |
Kiran Arjandas Ahuja (born June 17, 1971) is an American attorney and activist who served as the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). She served as the chief of staff to the OPM director from 2015 to 2017. She assumed that position after serving for six years as the director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. An Indian-born American, she has also been a lawyer with the United States Department of Justice and a founding director of a non-profit, the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. In 2017, she became the CEO of Philanthropy Northwest.
Ahuja's nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 22, 2021, by a vote of 51–50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. She was sworn in on June 24, 2021.