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| Michael Williams |
India has hired the Williams Group for strategic counsel, tactical planning and government relations on policy matters before the White House, Congress and select state governments, as well as academic institutions and think tanks.
Williams Group founder Michael Williams, former managing director of Credit Suisse in its public policy Americas unit and special assistant to the president and staff director for legislative affairs in the Clinton White House, is working the India business.
The $15K monthly contract began Oct. 1 and runs through March.
The firm reports to Taranjit Singh Sandhu, India’s ambassador to the US.
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