Joe Biden climate team includes Pakistani American Ali Zaidi

Joe Biden climate team includes Pakistani American Ali Zaidi.

US President elect Joe Biden announced appointments of key members of his climate team.

Joe Biden climate team includes Pakistani American

That list includes Pakistan-born Ali Zaidi who will serve as deputy White House Climate Coordinator.

Zaidi, 33 is currently serving as New York’s deputy secretary for energy and environment.

The Biden’s transition team announcement made him the highest ranking Pakistani-American in the Biden administration so far.

He will work under Gina McCarthy, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under former President Barack Obama.

Now, she leads a major advocacy group to coordinate the new administration’s domestic climate agenda.

Meanwhile, Biden said in a statement lauded his brilliant, tested, trailblazing team.

That he said to confront the existential threat of climate change with a unified national response rooted in science and equity.

Furthermore, he said they share his belief that we have no time to waste to confront the climate crisis.

Besides, they would protect our air and drinking water, and deliver justice to communities that have long shouldered the burdens of environmental harms.

Ali Zaidi a leading climate expert

Meanwhile, Biden’s transition team described Zaidi as “a leading climate expert.

Moreover, the team noted him a longtime advisor to the president-elect.

Ali Zaidi helped draft and implement the Obama-Biden Administration’s Climate Action Plan and negotiate the Paris Climate Agreement.

Zaidi, who immigrated from Pakistan, grew up in the Rust Belt outside Erie, Pennsylvania.

He studied at Harvard and Georgetown Universities.

“Zaidi brings the cross-sector and multi-disciplinary experience needed to deliver a whole-of-government response to the climate crisis,” the press release said.

Biden has given some key jobs to Americans of Indian origin, including Neera Tanden, who will be director of the Office of Management and Budget and Vivek Murthy, his nominee for surgeon general.

Vice President Kamala Harris , a daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, is the highest-ranking woman in America’s 244-year existence.

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