Surprise, shock! Joe Biden’s rights keeper has her roots in Alappuzha

Express News Service
ALAPPUZHA: Kannankara village and Kalathil household of Alappuzha are rejoicing. For the ‘granddaughter’ of the village has been appointed to a prime publish within the National Security Council (NSC) of the United States by President Joe Biden. Shanthi Kalathil, daughter of the late James Kalathil and Taipei nationwide Lucia, was named  the coordinator for Democracy and Human Rights in NSC. 

Born and introduced up within the US, 49-year-old Shanthi was serving because the senior director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies on the National Endowment for Democracy. Pappachan Kalathil, her paternal uncle, termed it an important accolade for the household and the village in Muhamma.

“My elder brother James and I went to the US around 40 years ago. He served as a professor in various universities there, but died a few years ago. Shanthi was brilliant in studies and completed journalism from the London School of Economics. Her new assignment will be a gift to democracy because she admires its values,” mentioned Pappachan, a former president of the Federation of Kerala Associations in North America (FOKANA).

She had additionally served as a senior democracy fellow on the US Agency for International Development, affiliate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, non-resident affiliate with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and as a marketing consultant for the World Bank and plenty of extra.  

She has authored quite a few coverage and scholarly publications, together with Diplomacy, Development and Security within the Information Age (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 2013), Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance (The World Bank, 2008), and The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003).