India, Jan. 11 -- Ricky Gill, a California-born, Princeton and University of California Berkley-educated Indian-American lawyer, is likely to be the senior director for South Asia in Donald Trump's National Security Council (NSC), multiple people familiar with the development said.

Gill, 37, served as the NSC director for Europe and Russian affairs in the final year of Trump's first term. He was also a senior advisor in the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations at State Department between 2017 and 2020. If appointed, Gill will succeed Lindsey Ford, a former Pentagon official who has handled the India account in NSC in the final lap of the Joe Biden administration.

David Feith, who served as the deputy assistant Secretary of State for E...