Governor Gavin Newsom Names Rohit Chopra To Military Council

India-West News Desk

SACRAMENTO, CA – California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Rohit Chopra, secretary of the Business and Consumer Services Agency, to the Governor’s Military Council.

Chopra has served as secretary of the Business and Consumer Services Agency since 2026. He was a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School from 2025 to 2026 and served as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2021 to 2025.

He was a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission from 2018 to 2021 and a special adviser to the secretary at the U.S. Department of Education in 2016. Earlier, he served as an assistant director and student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2010 to 2015 and was an associate at McKinsey & Company from 2008 to 2010.

Chopra earned a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Harvard University.

The appointment does not require Senate confirmation and carries no compensation. Chopra is a Democrat.

Newsom also announced the appointments of Patrick Brown as chief deputy director at the Housing Development and Finance Committee, Kevin Hixon as deputy director for facility support of the Division of Adult Institutions, and Andrea Rosales to the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training.