List of Important Appointments in 2016

Chairman and Managing Director of

Cochin Shipyard

Madhu S. Nair

Director General of Police of Uttar

Pradesh

Javed Ahmed

Deputy Chief of Air Staf

Air Marshal R K Singh Bhadauria

CMD of Bharat Heavy Electricals

Limited

Atul Sobti

New CEO of Wipro

Abidali Neemuchwala

New High Commissioner for the

United Nations Refugee Agency
(UNHCR)

Filippo Grandi

New Chairman of Internet and

Mobile association of India (IAMAI)

Kunal Shah

General President of 105th Indian

Science Congress

Achyuta Samanta

Technology advisor of Odisha

Sam Pitroda

Chairman of Competition
Commission of India (CCI)

Devender Kumar Sikri

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI

Aayog

Amitabh Kant

MD & CEO of SBI General Insurance

Pushan Mahapatra

New COO of Wipro

Bhanumurthy B. M.

Non-Executive Director of Airtel

Rakesh Bharti Mittal

New CEO of Flipkart

Binny Bansal

Vice President of Airbus Groups

Ashish Saraf

New Vice Chairs of The U.S.-India

Business Council (USIBC) Board

Edward Monser, Punit Renjen

Honorary life membership of

Kolkatas soccer outfit
Mohammedan Sporting

Amitabh Bachchan

New CEO of SurveyMonkey

Zander Lurie

Chairman of Tata SIA Airlines Ltd

(Vistara)

Bhaskar Bhat

Indian elected to the Board of

Directors of AIIB

Dinesh Sharma

New CEO and MD of Tata Motors

Group

Guenter Butschek

Executive Director of Greenpeace

India, a NGO

Ravi Chellam

New Prime Minister of Moldovan

parliament

Pavel Filip

New Advisor to Bihar CM

Prashant Kishor

New Chairman of Central Board of

Direct Taxes (CBDT)

Atulesh Jindal (IRS)

New Editor of Economic and Political

Weekly (EPW)

Paranjoy Thakurta

New Chairman and Managing

Director of General Insurance
Corporation of India (GIC Re)

Alice Vaidyan

New Chief Marketing Officers of

Twitter

Leslie Berland

Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh

Justice Sanjay Mishra

Chairman and Managing Director

(CMD) of NTPC Ltd

Gurdeep Singh

Chief Commissioner For Persons

With Disabilities

Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey

New Mumbai Police Commissioner

Padsalgikar

Indias Ambassador to Mexico

Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi (Senior IFS

officer)

Indias first woman paramilitary

head

Archana Ramasundaram (IPS Officer

of TN)

World Banks Senior Director for the

Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Group

Saroj Kumar Jha (alumnus of IIT

Kanpur)

MD & CEO of Corporation Bank

J K Garg (Prior to this appointment,

Garg was Executive Director in UCO
Bank)

Head of Mission and Force

Commander of the United Nations
Disengagement Observer Force
(UNDOF)

Major General Menon

Head of the Committee to sell

assets of Pearls Agrotech
Corporation Ltd (PACL)

Former Chief Justice RM Lodha

New Chief Marketing Officer for

Urban Ladder, the online furniture
and home dcor company

Sanjay Gupta

First woman CEO of an Indian

unicorn

Ambiga Dhiraj

The Chief Justice of Gujarat High

Court

Justice Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy

First female ICoAS officer to head

Indian Cost Accounts Service

Aruna Sethi

Vice President of Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank

DJ Pandian (Former chief secretary of

Gujarat)

New commander of the NATO forces

in Afghanistan

US General John Nicholson

Sundance Institute Global

Filmmaking Award 2016

Indian writer Geetu Mohandas

Prestigious Chief Minister's Award

for Innovation in Public Policy 2014

She-Taxi initiative of Kerala

New Executive Director of Canara

Bank

Dinabandhu Mohapatra

The dean of the prestigious Cornell

Indian-origin academician Sumitra
Universitys new College of Business Dutta
New Chief Justice for Bombay High
Court

Justice Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela

Executive Vice-Chairman of The

Energy and Resources Institute
(TERI)

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri

President of South Asian Wrestling

Federation

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh

India Handloom tag for its unique

designs and identity

The Chettinad cotton saree

New head of digital of Infosys

Scott Sorokin

New Australian High Commissioner

to India

Indian-origin Harinder Sidhu

United Nations Information Centre

(UNIC)

Tamar Hahn of Israel

Vice-chairman of the Paris-based

Indian-origin lawyer Davinder Singh

International Chamber of Commerce

Commission
Director of Indian Institute of Millets
Research (IIMR)

Vilas A.Tonapi

New Chairman of The Energy and

Resources Institute (TERI)

Ashok Chawla

Secretary to the Department of

Industrial Policy and Promotion
(DIPP) in the Commerce and
Industry Ministry

Ramesh Abhishek

Ambassador of the governments

Make in India initiative

Rasna chairman Piruz Khambatta

New Delhi Police Commissioner

Alok Kumar Verma

New Chief People Officer of Flipkart

Nitin Seth

Director General of Directorate of

Revenue Intelligence (DRI)

Senior IRS officer Jayant Misra

Chairman of the Empowered

Committee of State Finance
Ministers on Goods and Services Tax
(GST)

The Finance Minister of West Bengal

Amit Mitra

Part-time member of the Prasar

Bharati Board

Actress Kajol

Payments bank Chief Executive

Officer of Paytm

Shinjini Kumar

MD of International Monetary Fund

(IMF)

Christine Lagarde (Re-elected for

second time)

Chief Executive Officer of Infosys

Consulting Holding AG

Michael Pesch

New Chief Justice of Orissa High

Court

Justice Vineet Saran

Managing Director of National

Capital Region Transport
Corporation (NCRTC)

Vinay Kumar Singh

New Kuala Lumpur's Commissioner

of Police

Indian-origin Sikh officer Amar Singh

MD and CEO of Metropolitan Stock

Exchange of India Limited (MSEI)

Udai Kumar

Director of the Bhabha Atomic

Research Centre (BARC)

Distinguished Scientist KN Vyas

Chairperson of the National Human

Rights Commission (NHRC)

Ex-Chief Justice of India HL Dattu

New Chief Justice of Meghalaya High

Justice Dinesh Maheshwari
Court
Chief People Officer of Jet Airways

Rahul Taneja

28th Chief Justice of the High Court

of Karnataka

Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee

Chief Operating Officer (COO) of

Jabong

B Muralikrishnan

New Chairman of United Spirits(USL) MK Sharma

Nissans new global ambassador

Rohit Sharma

First non-navy officer to head Indian

Coast Guard

Rajendra Singh

Chief Justice of Odisha High Court

Justice Vineet Saran

Chief Executive Officer of AAE Travel Jonathon Sinclair Neal

Director of the CSIR-National

Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Ashwini Nangia

Head of Indian Railways innovation

Committee

Ratan Tata

Chairman of Banks Board Bureau

Vinod Rai

Chairman of the International

Association of Athletics Federations
(IAAF) Athletes' Commission in
Monaco

Slovenian high-jumper Rozle Prezelj

Chairperson of the Governing

Council of the International Fund for
Agriculture Development (IFAD)

Dinesh Sharma

Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of

the Eastern Naval Command

Vice Admiral HCS Bisht

The Chief of Staf of Eastern Naval

Command

Atul Kumar Jain (He succeeded Vice

Admiral Bimal Verma)

Chief Strategy and Commercial

Officer of TATA-Singapore Airlines
run Vistara

Sanjay Kapoor (Former SpiceJet COO)

Chairperson of National Human

Rights Commission

H L Dattu (Former Chief Justice of

India)

New Delhi Police Commissioner

Alok Kumar Verma (Senior IPS Officer)

Managing Director (MD) and Chief

Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi
Commodity Exchange of India Ltd
(MCX)

Mrugank Paranjape

Alternate Executive Director of the

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Sunil Sabharwal (the first IndianAmerican to occupy a key

administration post at the IMF)

Chairman of Confederation of Indian

Industry Tamil Nadu State Council

Ramesh Kymal

Non-official directors to the board of

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Tata

Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO and
managing director)

Chief Justice of Guwahati High Court

Ajit Singh (Prior to this he was serving as

the Acting Chief Justice of the Rajasthan
High Court)

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CA

Media Digital (India) Pvt. Ltd

Vivek Jain

Chairman and public interest

directorship of BSE

S Rao

president of Aluminium Association

of India (AAI)

Tapan Kumar Chand

Chief Secretary of Arunachal

Pradesh

Shakuntala Doley Gamlin

Head of United National Political

Mission in Columbia

Jean Arnault

New Brand Ambassador for Revital

H (Sun Pharma)

MS Dhoni

New Brand Ambassador for Reebok

India

Kangana Ranaut

Secretary General of the Arab

League

Ahmed Abul Gheit (Egyptian diplomat

and former Foreign Minister)

Chairman of the 21st Law

Commission

Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan (Former

Supreme Court judge)

Chief Justice of the Guwahati High

Court

Shri Justice Ajit Singh

Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High

Court

Justice Satish Kumar Mittal

Deputy Chief of Army Staf

Lt Gen N P S Hira

High Commissioner of India to the

Republic of Fiji

Vishvas ViduSapkal (Currently he was

the Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy of
India, Cairo)

Ambassador of India to the Republic

of Cote dIvoire

Shri R. Ravindra (currently Counsellor in

High Commission of India, Colombo)

Vice Chancellor of the prestigious

University of Canberra

H Deep Saini (Noted Indian scholar and

plant physiologist)

New independent non executive

director of Altico capital

Naina Lal Kidwai (veteran banker)

First Women Chief Justice of Nepal

Sushila Karki

UN Goodwill Ambassador

Ashley Judd

United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP) Goodwill
Ambassador

Michelle Yeoh (Award-winning action

heroine)

Governor of Bangladeshs Central

Bank

Fazle Kabir (former finance secretary and

Sonali Bank chairman)

New CEO of AirAsia

Amar Abrol

New Chairman Of Honeywell

Automation

Suresh Senapaty (Ex Wipro CFO)

New Global Ambassador of Huawei

Lionel Messi (FC Barcelonas player)

Managing Director (MD) of

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer

S Sridhar

New President of Zanzibar

Ali Mohamed Shein

New member of the International

Coordinating Committee of NHRIs

HL Dattu (The Chairperson of National

Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and

(ICC) Bureau in Geneva

former Chief Justice of India)

New editor of The Hindu

Mukund Padmanabhan

Chairman of Central Administrative

Tribunal (CAT)

Justice Permod Kohli (Retired Chief

Justice of Sikkim High Court)

UN human rights advisor

Surya Deva (India-born academician)

New Captain of the Delhi Daredevils

Zaheer Khan

President and Chief Executive

Officer of Bank of the West

Nandita Bakshi (Indian-American)

New President of Myanmar

Htin Kyaw

New Chairman of Indian Direct

Selling Association (IDSA)

Jitendra Jagota