List of Appointments in 2015 (January to September)

Name of The Persons

R K Srivastava
A.K. Mittal
Arvind Panagariya

Posts/Departments
Chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI)
Chairman of Railway Board
First Vice Chairman of the newly-created National
Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog
Sindhushree Khullar
First CEO of the National Institution for
Transforming India (NITI) Aayog
Aziz Qureshi
Governor of Mizoram
AS Kiran Kumar
Secretary of the Dept of Space and also the
Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO).
Dr Nazim Zaidi
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India
Pahlaj Nihalani
Chairperson of the Central Board of Film
Certification (CBFC).
Sunil Sood
India CEO of the telecom giant
Atul Khare
UN Under Secretary-General for Field Support,
Department of Field Support (DFS).
Prof Kaptan Singh Solani
Governor of Punjab
Divya Prakash Sinha
Security Secretary in the Union Cabinet Secretariat.
Durga Prasad
Special Director General of Central Reserved Police
Force (CRPF).
Kalyan Singh
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 30th Foreign Secretary of India
Shekhar Sen
Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi
Ashton Carter
New US secretary of defence
Dr. Nandita Chatterjee
Secretary in the Ministry of Housing & Urban
Poverty Alleviation (HUPA).
Suvarna Raju T
Chairman of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics
Ltd (HAL).
Sergio Mattarella
Italian president
LC Goyal
Secretary of India
MO Garg
Director General of the Council of Scientific &
Industrial Research (CSIR)
Ajaypal Singh Banga
Member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy
and Negotiations

List of Appointments 2015

Balasubramaniam
Venkataramani
Dhanurjay Patil
Maheshwar Sahu
Tapan Misra
Nitish Kumar
Rashad Hussain
Punit Renjen
Takahiro Hachigo
Ravi Chaudhary

Amitava Roy
Gopinath Pillai
Arvind Kejriwal
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
Jagmohan Dalmiya
Arun Singh
Baldev Sharma
Sunil Sabharwal
R M Vishakha
Kewal K Sharma
MC Mary Kom
Ashu Suyash
Abid Ali Neemuchwala
Ruth Porat

MD & CEO of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX)

Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology
Officer for Data Policy
Independent Director on the board of Mukesh
Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL).
Chairman of ISROs Space Applications Centre (SAC)
Chief Minister of Bihar
Special Envoy and Coordinator of Centre Strategic
Counter-terrorism Communications
CEO of US-based accounting company Deloitte
Global Operations
President and CEO of Honda
Executive Director for Regions and Center
Operations at the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA)
Judge of the Supreme Court
Special envoy to Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister of Delhi
Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
Board for Control for Cricket in Indias (BCCI)
president
Ambassador to United States
Chairman of National Book Trust
Alternate Executive Director at theInternational
Monetary Fund (IMF)
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of
IndiaFirst Life Insurance.
Secretary of Delhi
Ambassador for north-east India
MD & CEO of CRISIL
Group President and Chief Operating Officer of
Wipro
Chief Financial Officer of Google Inc

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Vikas Swarup
Gulshan Rai
Keshari Nath Tripathi
Rajeev Shukla

Dr Mylsamy Annadurai
Sumit Mazumder
Dr Nasim Zaidi
Arun Kumar Jha
Shamina Singh
Dr Mohan Kumar
Raja Rajeswari
Vivek Priyadarshi
Sitaram Yechury
Rishad Premji
Vivek Murthy
Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa
Sanjay Gupta
K Sivan
Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav
Ganguly, VVS Laxman
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Meena Hemachandra
Air Marshal Birender Singh
Dhanoa
Pawan Munjal
R Seshasayee
Rahul Dravid
KV Chowdary
Vijai Sharma
RC Tayal

Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry

Indias first Cyber Security Chief
16th governor of Mizoram
Chairman of the highly influential Indian Premier
League (IPL) governing council by the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bengaluru
President of Confederation of Indian Industry
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Khadi and Village
Industries Commission (KVIC).
Member of the Board of Directors of the
Corporation for National and Community Service.
Ambassador to France
Criminal court judge in New York City
Head a new investigating team to further
investigate the IPL-6 spot-fixing and betting scandal
Fifth general secretary of CPM
Wipro board
US Surgeon General
Arunachal Pradesh Governor
Chairman of Engineers Ltd
VSSC Chief
Advisory Panel of BCCI
First Woman President of Mauritius
Executive Director of RBI
IAFs new Vice Chief
Chairman of HERO Motocorp
Executive Chairman of Infosys
Coach of India A and Under 19 Teams
Central Vigilance Commissioner
Chief information Commissioner
Director General of National Security Guard

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MK Sharma
Nikhil Seth
Anuj Mathur
Srivari Chandrasekhar
Nokesh Arora
Jack Dorsey
Steffi Graf
Anshula Kant
Zaheer Abbas
Dennis Muilenburg
Vindo Rai
Mukesh Khanna
YC Modi
Commodore CD Balaji
Satish Pillai
Dr Anup K Pujari
Ashok Lahiri
Mahesh Sharma
Rakesh Sahni
Ajay Kumar Pandey
Jin Liqun
Prasanna Kumar
Suryadevara
Lord Kamlesh Patel
Anurag Srivastava
Sriram Kalyanaraman
Panjkaj Munjal
Prashant Pathrabe
Bhanu Pratap Sharma
Ajay Mathur
Anand Krishnamurthy
Professor Richard Hay and
George Baker
TK Chand

Non-Executive Chairman of ICICI Bank

Head of UNITAR
CEO of Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance
Director of CSIR-IICT
Softbank President
Twitter CEO
Brand Ambassador of Keralas Ayurveda
Deputy Managing Director and CFO of SBI
President of International Cricket Council
CEO of Boeing
Independent Director of IDFC
Chairperson of Children Film Society of India
Additional Director in CBI
Chief of Aeronautical Development Establishment
MD and CEO of CIBIL
Secretary of MSME
Chairman of Bandhan Bank
Point Person for Varanasi
Chairman of Narmada Valley Development Authority
Head of Gujarat International Finance Tec-City
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
President
Secretary of Delhi Legislative Assembly
First British-Asian appointee to ECB Director
CFO of Tata Tele Services
MD and CEO of National Housing Bank
CMD of Hero Motors Group
Director of Film and Television Institute of India
Chairperson of FSSAI (Temporary in charge)
Chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
MD and CEO of Catholic Syrian Bank
Two Nominated persons to Lok Sabha
NALCO Chairman

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List of Appointments 2015

Roelant Oltmans
Ashish Bahugana
RS Sharma
K Vijayaraghavan
Jinesh Hedge
David Taylor
Swati Maliwal
Ananth Narayanan
Lt Gen Man Mohan Singh
Rai
Rahul Bhatnagar
C Ramakrishnan
Rahul Agarwal

Coach of Hockey India

Chairperson of FSSAI
Chairman of TRAI
Secretary of DSIR
Airtels CEO of Operations in Sri Lanka
CEO of Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Chairperson of DCW
CEO of Myntra
Vice Chief of Army

Arun Goel
Lt Gen MMS Rai
Ram Kovind
Acharya Vrat
Amitabh Bachchan
Sundar Pichai
Sudhakar Shetty
Om Prakash Rawat
Ajit Kumar Seth

Chairman of Delhi Development of authority

Vice Chief of Army Staff
Governor of Bihar
Governor of Himachal Pradesh
Maharashtras Tiger Ambassador
Googles CEO
President of Gymnastics Federation of India
Election Commissioner
Chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board
(PESB)
World Athletics Chief
Chief of Staff Northern Command
Chief of Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the period
of three months.
MD and CEO of National Housing Bank
Director General of Council of Scientific & Industrial
Research
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Greeces First Female Prime Minister
Lokayukta of Maharashtra
Chairman of Indias Oscar Jury
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

Sebastian Coe
Lt General NPS Hira
Karnal Singh
Sriram Kalyanaraman
Girish Sahni
Novak Djokovic
Vassiliki Thanou
Justice ML Tahaliyani
Amol Palekar
Ranil Wickremesinghe

MD and CFO of Bharti Enterprises

CFO of Tata Motors Limited
MD of Lenova India

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List of Appointments 2015

Ashwani Lohani
Rekha Menon
Atul Keshap
Amitava Gosh
AI Rajwani
Dilip Vengsarkar
Sanjay Kumar Srivastava
Shaktikanta Das
Anjuly Chib Duggal
Hasmukh Adhia
Ajit M Sharan
Amarendra Sinha
Raghav Chandra
Rajiv Yadav
AK Jha

CMD of Air India Ltd

Chairperson of Accentures India Operations
US Ambassador to Maldives and Sri Lanka
Snapdeals Vice President Engineering
Gillette Indias Managing Director
President of Association of Indian Statisticians
Secretary, Coordination and Public Grievances
Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs
Secretary in the Department of Financial Services
Secretary in the Department of Revenue
Secretary of AYUSH
Secretary of the National Commission of Minorities
Chairman of National Highways Authority of India
Secretary in the Department of Sport
Interim Chairman and Managing Director of National
Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)
Pakistan's former hockey Secretary-general of the Pakistan Hockey Federation
World
Cup
winning
captain Shahbaz Ahmed
Dr. S.A.V. Satya Murty
Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic
Research and Director of General Services
Organisation (GSO) of the nuclear complex located at
Kalpakkam
Agriculture Expert Ramesh Full-time member of NITI Aayog
Chand
J Manjula
DRDOs first Woman Director General
Rakesh Sharma
Canara Banks MD and CEO
Hormusji N Cama
Chairman of PTI
Riyad Mathew
Vice Chairman of PTI
CVRDE Director P
Elevated as distinguished scientist
Sivakumar
Richie Richardson
Inducted in ICC Referees Panel
Zayn Khan
President of Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India
(FMSCI)
Stuti Narain Kacker
Head of the National Commission for Protection of
Child Rights (NCPCR)
Yudhvir Singh Malik
Additional Secretary in Niti Aayog
West Bengal Governor
Additional Charge as Governor of Tripura
Keshari Nath Tripathi
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List of Appointments 2015

Arvind Panagariya
Sourav Ganguly
Avishek Dalmiya
Syed Akbaruddin
Gautam Bambawale
Navtej Sarna
Sachin Tendulkar
S K Sharma
Jennifer Lopez
Matthias Mueller
Meghalaya Governor V
Shanmuganathan
Keerthi Kiran

New Sherpa for G-20 talks

Cricket Association of Bengal President
Joint Secretary of Cricket Association of Bengal
India's permanent representative at the UN
High commissioner to Pakistan (From Dec 15)
High commissioner to London
Brand Ambassador of Oxigen
Chairman of Bhakra Beas Management Board
UN Global Advocate for Girls and Women
Volkswagens CEO
Additional charge of Manipur
VP of realty projects division of Housing.com

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