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Kenneth Juster, who has been named Us ambassador to this country, was first made deputy assistant for international economic affairs in President Donald Trump's administration and director of the National Economic Council.He's a former Warburg Pincus partner, where he focused on global public policy and geopolitics, as well as heading the company's Emergency Solutions Grants. He resigned from Warburg to take up the White House position, according to The Wall Street Journal. Juster has served in government before. He was undersecretary of commerce from 2001 to 2005, where he advocated for strong export policies and served in senior State Department (their foreign ministry) roles from 1989 to 1993. He is recipient of the Redfield Award from the commerce department and a Distinguished Service Award from the state department. Founded in 1966, New York-based Warburg Pincus is a private equity (PE) firm, with a little more than $40 billion in assets under management, in an active portfolio .