Prominent Indian-origin industry executives, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella and Indra Nooyi, besides Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the event.
Industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Anand Mahindra were among the guests attending the state dinner hosted by US President Joe Biden in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s honour at the White House today.
Prominent Indian-origin industry executives, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella and Indra Nooyi, besides Apple CEO Tim Cook were also the guest list.
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra, are among Indian government representatives who attended the dinner.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and US envoy to India Eric Garcetti were also there.
Indian-origin US representatives Ro Khanna and Raja Krishnamoorthi, Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath and famous fashion designer Ralph Lauren were among the other guests at the state dinner.
US First Lady Jill Biden worked with guest chef Nina Curtis and other White House chefs had prepared the menu for the State Dinner.
The menu included lemon-dill yogurt sauce, crisped millet cakes, summer squashes, marinated millet and grilled corn kernel salad, compressed watermelon, tangy avocado sauce, stuffed portobello mushrooms, creamy saffron-infused risotto, rose and cardamom-infused strawberry shortcake.
“We are very excited that India is leading efforts to celebrate the international year of millet. We have incorporated marinated millets into our menu,” said Nina Curtis.
Here is the complete list of the guests who attended:
- Huma Abedin and Heba Abedin
- Reem Acra and Dr Nicolas Tabbal
- Mala Adiga, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady and Charles Biro
- Revathi Advaithi and Jeevan Mulgund
- Salman Ahmed, Director of Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State and Cat Davis Ahmed
- Kiran Ahuja, Director of the US Office of Personnel Management and Robert Shriver III, Deputy Director of the US Office of Personnel Management
- Sam Altman and Oliver Mulherin
- Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani
- Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defence and Charlene Austin
- Arindam Bagchi, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson
- Bela Bajaria and Rekha Bajaria
- Bharat Barai and Panna Barai
- John Bass, Undersecretary for Management, US Department of State and Holly Holzer Bass
- Josh Bekenstein and Anita Bekenstein
- Joshua Bell
- Stephen K. Benjamin, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement and Seema Shrivastava-Patel
- Ami Bera, US Representative and Dr Janine Vivienne Bera
- Anthony Bernal, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady
- Hunter Biden and Melissa Cohen Biden
- Ashley Biden and Seema Sadanandan
- James Biden and Sara Biden
- Naomi Biden Neal and Peter Neal
- Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, US Department of State and Evan Ryan, Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary
- Linden Prause Blue and Dr Chollada Blue
- Lael Brainard, Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council and Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, National Security Council
- William Burns, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Lisa Carty, US Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
- Dr Angel Cabrera and Beth Cabrera
- David Calhoun and Barbara Calhoun
- Anthony Capuano
- Manesh Chandwani and Alpana Patel
- Jagtar Chaudhry
- Kenneth Chenault and Kathryn Chenault
- Tarun Chhabra, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Technology and National Security, National Security Council and Dr Aliza Hapgood Waters
- Maria Grazia Chiuri and Karishma Swali
- Rohit Chopra, Director of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Karen Brudvig
- Michael Cohen and Daralyn Samuels
- Tim Cook and Lisa Jackson
- Jim Crown and Paula Crown
- Larry Culp and Wendy Culp
- Stephanie Cutter and Kellie Meiman Hock
- Ashraf Mansur Dahod and Dr Shamim Ashraf Dahod
- Ronak Desai and Dr Bansari Shah
- Darshan Dhaliwal and Debra Dhaliwal
- Gary Dickerson and Connie Dickerson
- Jen O’Malley Dillon, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff and Patrick Dillon
- Michael C. Donilon, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the President and Patricia Donilon
- Mark Douglas and Madeleine Douglas
- Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor of India
- Jose W. Fernandez, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, US Department of State and Andrea Gabor
- Jon Finer, Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor
- Leonard Forsman and Jana Rice
- Jane Fraser and Alberto Piedra
- Adena Friedman and Mike Friedman
- Thomas L. Friedman and Ann B. Friedman
- Michael Froman, President of the Council of Foreign Relations and Nancy Goodman
- Eric Garcetti, Ambassador of the United States to India and Sean Burton
- Merrick Garland, Attorney General, US Department of Justice and Lynn Rosenman Garland
- Rufus Gifford, Chief of Protocol of the United States
- Kirsten Gillibrand, US Senator and Jonathan Gillibrand
- Anand Giridharadas
- Philip Gordon, Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President and Rachel Gordon
- Sanjay Govil and Vidya Govil
- Jennifer M. Granholm, Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy and Karen Elizabeth Skelton
- Palash Gupta and Khushi Gupta
- Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General, US Department of Justice and Rajiv Gupta
- Geeta Rao Gupta, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, US Department of State and Arvind Gupta
- Rahul Gupta, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Seema Gupta
- Isabella Guzman, Administrator of the Small Business Administration and Javier Guzman
- Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence and David Davighi
- Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States and Douglas Emhoff
- Roger Hochschild and Stephanie Hochschild
- Kate Hoit and Julia Tivald
- David Ignatius and Eve Ignatius
- Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman
- Irwin Jacobs and Sara Jacobs, US Representative
- Anurag Jain
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of the India
- Pramila Jayapal, US Representative and Steven Williamson
- Karine Jean-Pierre, Assistant to the President and Press Secretary
- Jo Ann Jenkins and Francis Jenkins
- Hiren Joshi, Officer on Special Duty, India
- Nikhil Kamath
- Vrinda Kapoor
- Vimal Kapur
- Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. and Margaret P. Kelly
- Maxwell Taylor Kennedy and Vicki S. Kennedy
- Max Kennedy
- Neeraj Khemlani and Heather Cabot Khemlani
- Ro Khanna, US Representative and Ritu Khanna
- Suresh Khator and Renu Khator
- Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King
- Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss
- Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Gender Policy Council and Zachary Stern
- Amy Klobuchar, US Senator and John Bessler
- Edward Knight and Amy Shepard Knight
- Rohini Kosoglu and Ozkan Kosoglu
- Arvind Krishna and Tarini Krishna
- Raja Krishnamoorthi, US Representative and Priya Krishnamoorthi
- Maria Teresa Kumar and Raj Udiaver Kumar
- Vivek Kumar, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
- Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Foreign Secretary of the India
- Ben LaBolt, Assistant to the President and Director of Communications
- Mitchell Landrieu, Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator and Emily Landrieu
- Dame Donna Langley DBE and Ramin Shamshiri
- Eileen Laubacher, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for South Asia, National Security Council and Christopher Laubacher
- Ralph Lauren and Ricky Lauren
- Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, US Department of State and Ariel Ahart
- Anand Mahindra
- Joseph Manchin, US Senator and Gayle Manchin
- Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
- Christina Mather and Patricia Moynihan
- Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, US Department of Homeland Security and Tanya Mayorkas
- Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the US House of Representatives and Emily Norris McCarthy
- Doug McMillon and Shelley McMillon
- Gregory Meeks, US Representative and Simone Meeks
- Sanjay Mehrotra and Sangeeta Mehrotra
- Robert Menendez, US Senator and Nadine Menendez
- Michael Miebach
- Aruna K. Miller, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and David Miller
- Deepak Mittal, Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister
- Jon Moeller and Lisa Sauer
- John Morgan and Matt Morgan
- Denis Mukwege and Madeleine Kaboyi
- James Murdoch and Kathryn Murdoch
- Vivek Murthy, US Surgeon General and Alice Chen
- Sam Myers and Vicki Myers
- Satya Nadella and Anu Nadella
- Shekar Narasimhan and Charu Narasimhan
- Shantanu Narayen and Reni Narayen
- Bill Nelson, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Grace Nelson
- Indra Nooyi and Raj Nooyi
- Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, US Department of State and Drew Nuland
- Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the US National Science Foundation
- Maulik Pancholy and Ryan Corvaia
- Deven Parekh and Monika Parekh
- Tarini Parti and Preeti Parti
- Milan Patel and Vinod Patel
- Sameer Patel and Shannon Patel
- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita of the US House of Representatives and Paul Pelosi
- Charles E. Phillips and Karen C. Phillips
- Jake Phillips, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President and Legal Advisor to the National Security Council and Sheila Jaya Kadagathur
- Sundar Pichai and Anjali Pichai
- John Podesta, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy and Mae Podesta
- Robert Pohlad and Rebecca Pohlad
- Arati Prabhakar, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Patrick Windham
- Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati and Whitney Whitis
- Michael J. Pyle, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, National Security Council and Chloe F. Schama
- Natalie Quillian, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff and Ryan Quillian
- James Quincey
- Gautam Raghavan, Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel and Andrew Masloski
- Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, US Department of Commerce and Andy Moffit
- Deepak Raj and Neera Raj
- Sanjay Ramabhadran and Vidya Iyer
- Sripriya Ranganathan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India
- M.R. Rangaswami and Krisanthy Desby
- Vani Sarraju Rao, Additional Secretary, Americas, India
- Vinay Reddy, Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting and Neelima Reddy
- Bruce Reed, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff and Bonnie Lepard
- Michael Regan, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency
- Punit Renjen and Heather Renjen
- Steve Ricchetti, Assistant to the President and Counselor to the President and Amy Ricchetti
- Curtis Ried, Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Council Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary and Patsy Ried
- Chuck Robbins and Paige Robbins
- Tim Roemer and Sally Roemer
- Christopher Rothko and Lori Cohen
- Jeanne Ruesch and Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J.
- Jennifer Rumsey and Jim Rumsey
- Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Ambassador of the India to the United States
- Reshma Saujani and Mike Saujani
- Steve Scalise, US Representative
- Michael Schrum and Maya Rao
- Charles E. Schumer, US Senator and Elizabeth Weiland
- Sudhir Sekhsaria
- Peter Selfridge
- Smita N. Shah and Maarten de Jeu
- Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor and Jeffrey Randall
- Jay Shetty and Richard Slavin
- Madhu Shrivastava and Sulochana Shrivastava
- M. Night Shyamalan and Bhavna Shyamalan
- Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons
- Shamina Singh and Simi Singh Juneja
- Rajesh Singh, Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade of the India
- Gwendolyn Sontheim and Cary Fowler, US Special Envoy for Global Food Security, US Department of State
- Aaron Sosnick and Paige Perrone
- Gene Sperling, White House American Rescue Plan Coordinator and Senior Advisor to the President and Miles French
- Sri Srinivasan, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals and Chitra Wadhwani
- Lisa Su and Daniel Lin
- Rajesh Subramaniam and Gina Adams
- Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Maggie Goodlander
- Ellen Susman and Whitney Gordon
- Katherine Tai, US Trade Representative and Robert Skidmore
- Jim Taiclet and Carol Taiclet
- Neera Tanden, Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor and Alina Edwards
- Hemant Taneja
- Louisa Terrell, Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs and Seema Nanda, US Solicitor of Labor, US Department of Labor
- Nidhi Tewari, Deputy Secretary, India
- Shri Thanedar, US Representative and Shashi Thanedar
- Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative of the United States to the United Nations and Lafayette Greenfield
- Mini Timmaraju and Ken Scudder
- Annie Tomasini, Assistant to the President and Director of Oval Office Operations
- Abeezar Tyebji and Paulomi Tyebji
- Maju Varghese and Julie Varghese
- Abraham Verghese and Cari Costanzo
- Richard Verma, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, US Department of State and Melineh Verma
- Aseem Vohra, Deputy Chief of Protocol of the India
- Lorraine Voles, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President and A.J. Smith
- Sunil Wadhwani and Nita Wadhwani
- Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota and Gwen Walz
- Mark Warner, US Senator and Lisa Collis
- Casey Wasserman and Jenny Chandler
- Anne Wojcicki and Esther Wojcicki
- Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Loyce Young-Smith
- Ali Zaidi, Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor and Candace Vahlsing
- Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights, US Department of State and Thomas Nemeth
- Jeffrey Zients, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the President and Jonny Zients
