Rama Krishna Sangem
Sergio Gor, 39 year old businessman and a close friend of Trump family has been appointed as the US ambassador to India. Gor is also named as President Trump’s special envoy to South and Central Asian affairs. So, though his posting is in Delhi, Gor will be looking after many counties in the region including Pakistan and Bangladesh. Currently, Gor is the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office.
The fact that Gor is a close friend of the President’s two sons – Donald Eric Frederick Trump, 41 and Donald John Trump or Trump Junior, 48, is good news for India, his job nature of taking care of entire South and Central Asian region is a good thing for New Delhi. That means, India will be one of his assignments in this region.
President Trump made this appointment on August 22, Friday. For the last 8 months of this post being vacant, after Eric Garcetti left the job, India has been eagerly waiting for the new US ambassador. We need to see how Sergio Gor will handle now bruised India-US relations in the coming years.
Born in Tashkent
Sergio Gor (born Sergey Gorokhovsky, on November 30, 1986 is an American businessman and political operative who has served as the United States special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs and the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office since 2025.
Gor graduated from George Washington University, where he was involved in conservative causes, participating in College Republicans and founding the university’s chapter of Young America’s Foundation.
In June 2020, Gor took the job of chief of staff of the Trump Victory Finance Committee. The following month, he began working for Donald Trump Jr. as his consultant and book publishing manager. Trump Jr. and Gor founded Winning Team Publishing, a conservative publishing house, in October 2021; the company published several books about Donald Trump,
Brahma Chellaney not happy
International affairs scholar Brahma Chellaney echoes Sibal’s concern. “Trump waited over seven months — until U.S.-India ties had sunk to a new low — to name an ambassador to India. By doubling the nominee’s role as special envoy for South and Central Asia, Washington signals a throwback to the Cold War era that bracketed India with Pakistan. America weakens its own hand by reducing India from a global partner to a South Asian player,” Chellaney wrote on X.
Well, this could be the opinion of Indian establishment too, but none of its members cannot comment on this sensitive issue for diplomatic reasons. We only need to wait and see how Sergio Gor functions from New Delhi.
