US President Joe Biden has nominated Peter D Haas as the next ambassador to Bangladesh.
The White House confirmed the matter in a statement on Friday.
Haas will replace incumbent US Ambassador Earl R Miller in Bangladesh, after the confirmation by the US Senate.
Miller was sworn in as US ambassador to Bangladesh on November 13, 2018.
The US president, meanwhile, nominated Eric M Garcetti to be ambassador to India.
According to the statement, Haas, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, currently serves as acting assistant secretary of state and principal deputy assistant secretary, for economic and business affairs for the Department of State.
Earlier, Haas was senior advisor/deputy assistant secretary for trade policy and negotiations for the State Department. He was also the deputy permanent representative to the US Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France.
Over his career he served in positions across five geographic bureaus of the State Department including as consul general of the US Consulate General Mumbai, India.
Haas holds a BA in International Studies and German from Illinois Wesleyan University.
He attended the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar, where he earned MSc (Economics) degrees in both the Politics of the World Economy and Comparative Government.
He is the recipient of the James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence and the Cordell Hull Award for Economic Achievement by senior officers. His foreign languages are French and German.
