Expatriate Bangladeshi Farah Ahmed has been appointed as the Chief of Staff nominee in the office of Under Secretary of Rural Development under the US Department of Agriculture.
Most recently, Ahmad served as the Senior Program Coordinator in the Office of Consumer Education and a Senior Advisor to the Chief Operating Officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Prior to her time at CFPB, she served as the Program Manager on the Community and Economic Development team in the Rural Business Cooperative Service at USDA and Senior Policy Analyst at Center for American Progress.
She holds a master’s from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
