Nisha Biswal brings over 30 years of experience in U.S. foreign policy and international economic development including in the Executive Branch, in Congress and the private sector. Most recently, she served as Deputy CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, overseeing operations, management and policy coordination, and helping DFC become the largest bilateral development finance institution in the world. Biswal was senior vice president for international strategy and global initiatives at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from 2017-2023 and led the South Asia practice.

Her prior government service includes Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2013 to 2017. There she oversaw the U.S.-India strategic partnership, including the launch of an annual U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue. She also initiated the C5+1 Dialogue with Central Asia and the US-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue during her tenure as Assistant Secretary. Prior to that, Biswal was assistant administrator for Asia at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),having previously worked in the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and the Bureau for Humanitarian Response. She also spent over a decade on Capitol Hill, working as staff director on the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee on Appropriations as well as professional staff on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives.

Biswal is a Senior Advisor at The Asia Group, the leading strategic and commercial advisory firm working across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as serving on the board of Excelerate Energy, a publicly traded US energy company providing integrated LNG solutions to meet the world’s energy needs. Prior Boards include the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, the National Democratic Institute and the U.S. Institute of Peace International Advisory Council. She is a member of the USIP Afghanistan Study Group and the Aspen Institute’s India-US Track 2 Dialogue on Climate and Energy. Biswal is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia where she studied international relations and economics.