NEW DELHI, April 25: An India-educated career diplomat, Jeffrey Davidow, is being tipped to be the next US ambassador to India in place of Robert Blackwill, who recently resigned to pursue a teaching career at the Harvard University, the Press Trust of India said on Friday.

The agency quoted unidentified sources as saying that Mr Davidow, a Jew, would be leaving his current post as US ambassador in Mexico to head the embassy in New Delhi after Mr Blackwill returns home this summer.

Mr Davidow studied at the University of Massachusetts, the University of Minnesota and at Osmania University in Hyderabad, PTI said.

In the foreign service, he spent one year as a Fellow of the American Political Science Association, where he worked as a Congressional staff aide (1979), and another year as a Fellow of the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University (1982).

He was appointed ambassador to Mexico in 1998. He has previously served as ambassador to Zambia and Venezuela, and was assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs in 1996.