US President-elect Joe Biden allegedly chose former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former Democratic candidate for the White House Pete Buttigieg as transport minister: some US media reported.
Buttigieg, the 38 / year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who Biden himself compared to his late son Beau, played a key role in the 'Joe' nomination, after being one of the surprises of the dem primaries.
A model student and polyglot first at Harvard and then at Oxford, Buttigieg was a decorated veteran in Afghanistan as an intelligence officer and former consultant to the multinational McKinsey. A declared gay, he is married to a teacher who always accompanied him during the campaign to the primary.