New Delhi : US Ambassador designate to India Nancy Powell arrived New Delhi last night to take charge of the high profile office in this country.

The First woman Ambassador of her country has been working as the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources in Washington before she was designated for India.

She will be the second representative of the Obama Administration in India. Her predecessor Timothy J Roemer had announced his resignation in April last year. Since then Mr Peter Bureligh had been holding the charge.

Earlier, Ms Powell had served in the American Consulate in Kolkata and the US Embassy in New Delhi as a diplomat from 1992to 1995.

Before embarking for India, she had said some of her priorities in her new assignment would be expansion of trade and defence ties with India