Trump names Tashkent-born Sergio Gor, a close aide, as US ambassador to India

TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday nominated Tashkent-born Sergio Gor, a close aide and White House Director of Presidential Personnel, as the Ambassador to India.

When confirmed by the Senate, Gor will concurrently hold charge as Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs. The region includes Pakistan and Bangladesh, among other countries, where Washington does not have confirmed ambassadors and its embassies are led by charge d'affaires or acting ambassadors.

"For the most populous Region in the World, it is important that I have someone I can fully trust to deliver on my Agenda and help us, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Sergio will make an incredible Ambassador," Trump said in a social media announcement, describing Gor as "a great friend, who has been at my side for many years."

Beyond grateful to @realDonaldTrump for his incredible trust and confidence in nominating me to the be his next US Ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs! Nothing has made me prouder than to serve the American people through the GREAT work of this Administration!... It will be the honor of my life to represent the United States!" Gor wrote in response.


Gor, who is 38, will be the youngest US ambassador to India, and will come to New Delhi replacing Eric Garcetti, a Democrat appointee who returned to his native California in January at the end of the Biden presidency.


Who is Sergio Gor?

Gor is known as a low-profile White House insider who, by Trump's own account, hired nearly 4,000 "America First Patriots" (MAGA loyalists) "across every department of the federal government in record time."

"He worked on my Historic Presidential Campaigns, published my Best Selling Books, and ran one of the biggest Super PACs, which supported our Movement. Sergio’s role as Director of Presidential Personnel has been essential to delivering on the unprecedented Mandate that we received from the American People," Trump said in introducing his putative envoy to a country that he appears to have soured on.

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