List of Recent Appointments Current Affairs 2023

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January 5, 2023

Recent Appointments Current Affairs 2023

List of Recent Appointments in January 2023

Recent Appointments in India December 2023

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1 New Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Marshal Amanpreet
Singh

2 Brand Ambassador of National Mineral Development Champion Boxer Nikhat

Corporation (NMDC) Zareen

3 New CEO of Tata Trusts Siddharth Sharma

4 New CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co (India) PrabdevSingh

5 New Chairman of Amul Shamalbhai B Patel

6 Director general of Civil Aviation (DGCA) IAS officer Vikram Dev

Dutt

7 Director of the National Health Authority (Ayushman Praveen Sharma

Bharat Digital Mission)

8 Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) Pankaj Kumar Singh

9 New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vedanta’s Nick Walker

Cairn Oil & Gas

10 New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cognizant Ravi Kumar

11 First woman chief secretary of Telangana Santhi Kumari

12 First woman officer of the Border Roads Organization Captain Surbhi Jakhmola
(BRO)

13 Director of Meta’s Global Business Group in India. Vikas Purohit

14 Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court Justice Nongmeikapam

Kotiswar Singh

15 Brand Ambassador for Nutrition Company Herbalife Smriti Mandhana

Nutrition India Private Limited

16 New MD & CEO Paytm bank Surinder Chawla

17 State icon for Bihar by the Election Commission. Folk singer Maithili
Thakur

18 Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BharatPe Nalin Negi

19 Additional charge as Director General of the Border Sujoy Lal Thaosen

Security Force (BSF)

20 Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Dinesh Shukla

21 Chairman-Cum-Managing Director of the public Ajit Kumar Saxena

sector enterprise MOIL Limited

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22 Head of the new Economic Advisory Council of N Chandrasekaran
Maharashtra

23 MD and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sundararaman

Limited Ramamurthy

24 MD and CEO of the Indian Overseas Bank Ajay Kumar Srivastava

Recent Appointments in the World, January 2023

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1 Air Force Brigadier General Raja Chari

2 President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel

3 Special envoy for human rights in North Korea Julie Turner

4 Maryland’s first Indian-American Lt. Governor Aruna Miller

5 New prime minister of New Zealand Chris Hipkins

6 Youngest and the first LGBTQ woman of colour to serve on Janani

Oakland City Council in the US state of California. Ramachandran

7 New Chief Economist of Organisation for Economic Co- UK Treasury

operation and Development (OECD) Adviser Clare
Lombardelli

8 First minister of the new Ministry of Indigenous People Sônia Guajajara

9 New chief technologist of NASA. Indian origin AC

Charania

10 New speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy

11 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bank of Singapore Jason Moo

Recent Appointments Current Affairs 2022

List of Recent Appointments in December 2022

Recent Appointments in India December 2022

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1 MD and CEO of the Suryoday Small Finance Bank Baskar Babu

Ramachandran

2 Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army. LG Arvind Walia

3 Acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) Praveen Kumar

Srivastava

4 Chief advisor to Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel Hasmukh Adhia

5 Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Santosh Kumar

Yadav

6 Chairman of Railway Board Anil Kumar

Lahoti

7 MD and CEO of SBI Funds Shamsher Singh

8 MD & CEO of Equitas Small Finance Bank P N Vasudevan

9 New brand ambassador of Puma India Anushka Sharma

10 New chairperson of the New Delhi International Arbitration Hemant Gupta

Centre (NDIAC)

11 Head of Air India’s low-cost airline business Aloke Singh

12 Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Dinesh Kumar

Shukla

13 General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Counter Major General

Insurgency Force Kilo Mohit Seth

14 Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of National Rajeev Kumar

Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Ltd. Vishnoi

15 18th Chief Minister of Gujarat Bhupendra Patel

16 President of Cardiological Society of India Dr. PC Rath

17 New Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Sukhwinder

Singh Sukhu

18 New President of Table Tennis Federation of India Meghna Ahlawat

19 First woman president of Indian Olympic Association PT Usha

20 Brand Ambassador of Pottery Barn Deepika

Padukone

21 Managing Director (MD) of the National Dairy Development Meenesh C Shah

Board (NDDB).

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22 New MD & CEO of Ashok Leyland Shenu Agarwal

23 New Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural K V Shaji
Development (NABARD)

24 Batting Coach of Indian Women’s Cricket Hrishikesh

Kanitkar

25 Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Arun Kumar

Singh

26 Chairman and Managing Director of Bharatiya Nabhikiya K.V. Suresh

Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI) Kumar

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1 Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa

Kamal Dahal

2 New Prime Minister of Fiji Sitiveni

Rabuka

3 First female President of Peru Dina Boluarte

4 First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Sushmita
Reserve Bank of New York. Shukla

5 New Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) Jeremy Farrar

6 Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadkar

7 First black president to run an Ivy League university. Claudine Gay

8 CEO of Olympic Organizing Committee Cindy Hook

9 India’s new ambassador to Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz

Khan

List of Recent Appointments in November 2022

Recent Appointments in India November 2022

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1 Vetsa Rama Krishna Gupta Chairman and MD of Bharat

Petroleum Corporation Limited
(BPCL)

2 President of Federation of Indian Chambers Subhrakant Panda

of Commerce and Industry (FICCI

3 CEO of Energy Efficiency Services Lt Vishal Kapoor

4 Director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) K V Kamath

5 Brand ambassador of Byju’s Lionel Messi

6 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant

(DY) Chandrachud

7 Deputy chair of GSMA (Global System for Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal
Mobile communications Association)

8 CEO of Prasar Bharati Gaurav Dwivedi

9 Charge as Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane

10 Director on the central board of the Reserve Vivek Joshi

Bank of India (RBI)

11 Full-time member of NITI Aayog Arvind Virmani

12 Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) V G Somani

13 Election Commissioner of India Arun Goel

14 Brand ambassador of UrbanGabru Suryakumar Yadav

15 CEO of the Khadi & Village Industries Vinit Kumar

Commission (KVIC)

16 Executive Director of Bank of India Subrat Kumar

17 Chairman of the All India Council for T G Sitharam

Technical Education (AICTE)

18 Ambassador of Nikshay Mitra (an initiative Deepa Malik

under Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat
Abhiyaan)

19 First woman President of the Indian Olympic PT Usha

Association (IOA)

20 Brand ambassador of Marico’s Saffola Fittify Janhvi Kapoor

21 New MD & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange Sundararaman Ramamurthy

(BSE)

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22 CEO-designate of Deloitte India Romal Shetty

23 Meta’s New India Head Sandhya Devanathan

24 MS Dhoni Brand ambassador of Navi

Technologies

Recent Appointments in the World, November 2022

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1 New president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da

Silva

2 Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu

3 President of International Hockey Federation Tayyab Ikram

4 Lieutenant Governor in the state of Maryland Aruna Miller

5 Friendship Ambassador’ of Switzerland Neeraj Chopra

6 Independent Chair of the International Cricket Council Greg Barclay

(ICC)

7 First female president of Slovenia Natasa Pirc Musar

8 President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart

Tokayev

9 Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim

10 CEO of Adidas Bjorn Gulden

List of Recent Appointments in October 2022

Recent Appointments in India October 2022

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1 New Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Dhananjaya

Yeshwant
Chandrachud

2 Secretary of Department of Commerce Sunil Barthwal

3 Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police Anish Dayal Singh

(ITBP)

4 Governor of Meghalaya B D Mishra

5 Vice-President (VP) of International Astronautical Dr A K Anil Kumar

Federation (IAF)

6 Director General of Central Reserve

Police Force Sujoy Lal Thaosen
(CRPF)

7 MD & CEO of SBI General Insurance Kishore Kumar Poludasu

8 MD and CEO of Yes Bank Prashant Kumar

9 Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in

India A.Balasubramanian
(AMFI)

10 CEO of Bank of India

Investment Managers Private Mohit Bhatia
Ltd

11 Whole Time Member (WTM) of SEBI Ananth Narayan

Gopalakrishnan

12 CEO of Data Security Council of India

(DSCI) Vinayak Godse

13 Chairman of Punjab National Bank Atul Kumar Goel

14 President of Board of Control for Cricket in

India Roger Binny
(BCCI)

15 Managing Director of the Board of GlaxoSmithKline Bhushan Akshikar

Pharmaceuticals (GSK India)

16 Interim CEO of Paytm Payments

Bank Limited Deependra Singh Rathore
(PPBL)

17 CEO of Adani Airport Holdings Limited Arun Bansal

18 Controller General of Accounts (CGA) of India Bharati Das

19 Non-Executive Independent Director of Karur KG Mohan

Vysya Bank (KVB)

20 MD and CEO of ICICI Bank Sandeep Bakshi

21 CMD of India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) Pradeep Singh Kharola

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22 Chairman of Quality Council of India (QCI) Jaxay Shah

Recent Appointments in the World, October 2022

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1 President of Iraq Abdul Latif

Rashid

2 Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf

Kristersson

3 Prime Minister of United Kingdom Rishi

Sunak

4 President of Cognizant Americas

Cognizant Technology Solutions Ravi Kumar
Corporation S

5 Chairperson of Air Transport

Committee (ATC) of the International Dr Shefali
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Juneja

List of Recent Appointments in September 2022

Recent Appointments in India September 2022

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1 New Chief of Defence Staff Lt. General Anil

Chauhan

2 New Attorney General of India Senior advocate R

Venkataramani

3 Director of Stashfin Vijay Jasuja

4 director general of the Employees’ State Insurance Rajendra Kumar

Corporation (ESIC)

5 MD and CEO of NPCI Dilip Asbe (re-

appointed)

6 MD and Chairman of RailTel Corp Sanjai Kumar

7 Director of AIIMS Delhi Dr. M Srinivas

8 President of Hockey India Dilip Tirkey

9 Director General of ICMR Dr. Rajiv Bahl

10 Director General of National Centre for Good Bharat Lal

Governance (NCGG)

11 trustees of PM CARES Fund Ratan Tata

12 MD & CEO IndusInd Bank Sumant Kathpalia

13 CEO of CSB Bank Pralay Mondal

14 President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers Vinod Aggarwal

15 Chairman of the Appellate Tribunal under the Prevention Chief Justice

of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Munishwar Bhandari

16 India’s next ambassador to Japan Sibi George

17 Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi

18 India’s ambassador to Eritrea Prakash Chand

19 CEO of IndiGo Pieter Elbers

20 Next high commissioner of India to Canada Sanjay Verma Sanjay

Verma

21 MD & CEO of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Krishnan

Sankarasubramaniam

22 Executive chairperson of the National Legal Services Justice DY

Authority (NALSA) Chandrachud

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23 CMD of Shipping Corporation of India Binesh Kumar Tyagi

24 Chairman and CMD of NHPC Yamuna Kumar

Chaubey

25 Director General of the News Services Division of All Vasudha Gupta

India Radio (AIR)

Recent Appointments in the World, September 2022

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1 Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman

2 Indian Ambassador to Madagascar Bandaru Wilsonbabu

3 First woman PM of Italy Giorgia Meloni

4 President of Angola Joao Lourenco (re-elected)

5 CEO of American Express India Sanjay Khanna

6 Next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk

7 Home Secretary in UK Cabinet Suella Braverman

8 New PM of United Kingdom Liz Truss

9 CEO of Starbucks Laxman Narasimhan

List of Recent Appointments in August 2022

Recent Appointments in India August 2022

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1 India’s ambassador to Thailand Nagesh Singh

2 Managing Director (MD) of IDFC limited. Mahendra N

Shah

3 Whole-time member of the Securities and Exchange Board of Ananth Narayan

India (SEBI). Gopalakrishnan

4 First brand ambassador of DreamSetGo Sourav Ganguly

5 New chairman of the Defence Research and Development Samir V. Kamat

Organization (DRDO).

6 Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Power Grid Corporation of Pramod Kumar

India Limited

7 First woman director general of the Council of Scientific and Nallathamby

Industrial Research (CSIR). Kalaiselvi

8 Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Oil India Limited Ranjit Rath
(OIL)

9 Chief Financial Officer of BharatPe Nalin Negi

10 Union cabinet secretary (till August 2022) Rajiv Gauba

11 Vice-president of India Jagdeep

Dhankar

12 MD & CEO of Unity Small Finance Bank (SFB) Inderjit Camotra

13 Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Dr. Sujoy Lal

Thaosen

14 Ambassador for Noise’s new smartwatch Vaani Kapoor

15 Director in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) IFS officer

Shweta Singh

16 New Central Vigilance Commissioner Suresh N Patel

17 Chairman of Vodafone Idea Ravinder Takkar

18 Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau Satyendra

(PIB) Prakash

19 Managing director of Airtel Gopal Vittal

20 Brand ambassador of Uttarakhand Rishabh Pant

21 Head of Mission and Chief Military Observer for the United Argentina’s
Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan Guillermo Pablo
(UNMOGIP). Rios

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 22 Secretary to President Droupadi Murmu Rajesh Verma

23 Director of the National Institute of Immunology (NII) Debasisa

Mohanty

24 MD & CEO of Bajaj Electricals elevates Anuj Poddar

25 MD and CEO of Paytm Vijay Shekhar

Sharma
(Reappointed)

Recent Appointments in the World, August 2022

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1 Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic

2 Interim President of Indian Olympic Association Adille Sumariwalla

3 MD & CEO of German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz Santosh Iyer

4 India’s Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund Krishnamurti

(IMF) Subramanian

5 Prime minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape

6 Deputy president of International Chess Federation (FIDE). Grandmaster

Viswanathan
Anand

7 Colombia’s first leftist President Gustavo Petro

8 Assistant Director General of the International Crops Sanjay Agarwal

Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

9 World Bank’s Country Director for India Auguste Tano

Kouam

10 Interim PM of Mali Colonel

Abdoulaye Maiga

11 Next High Commissioner of India to UK Vikram

Doraiswami

12 New executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Simon Stiell

Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

13 President of Kenya William Ruto

List of Recent Appointments in July 2022

Recent Appointments in India July 2022

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1 CEO Of Paytm Payments Services Nakul Jain

2 New CEO of Vodafone Idea telecom Company Akshaya Moondra

3 Managing director of TATA Projects Vinayak Pai

4 Managing Director of ONGC Videsh Rajarshi Gupta

5 Whole-time Member of the Insolvency and Jayanti Prasad

Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) for five years

6 New member of the Union Public Service Commission Retired Army officer
(UPSC) Raj Shukla

7 MD of RattanIndia Power Brijesh Gupta

8 Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Former Supreme

ethics officer and ombudsman Court
judge, Vineet Saran

9 New managing director and CEO of National Ashish Kumar

Stock Exchange (NSE) Chauhan

10 Chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Manoj Kumar

Commission (KVIC)

11 Director (Technical) of REC Limited V.K. Singh

12 Managing Director & CEO of Eureka Forbes Pratik Pota

13 Temporary chairperson (for 3 years) Meena Hemchandra

of the Karur Vysya bank

14 Chairman & Managing Director, RailTel Corporation Sanjai Kumar

of India Ltd (RCIL)

15 Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Goa Brajesh Kumar

Shipyard Limited (GSL) Upadhyay

16 Managing Director of National High-Speed Rajendra Prasad

Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL)

17 Deputy election commissioner R K Gupta

18 Managing director and chief executive office Paritosh Tripathi

of SBI General Insurance

19 President of the Association of Suranjan Das

Indian Universities (AIU)

20 New President of Confederation of R Dinesh

Indian Industry’s (CII)

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 21 Chief executive officer and managing Asit Rath
director of Aviva India

22 Next chairman of GAIL Sandeep Kumar

Gupta

23 Re-Appointed Attorney General For Three Months KK Venugopal

Recent Appointments in the World, July 2022

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1 President of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) T. Raja Kumar

(from

Singapore)

2 Force Commander in United Nations Mission in South Sudan Lt. General

(UNMISS) Mohan

Subramanian

3 New President of the International Fund for Agricultural Alvaro Lario

Development (IFAD)

4 Next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India Mustafizur

Rahman

5 Acting president of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Seif Ahmed

(from Egypt)

6 International Association of Ports and Harbors’ (IAPH) official Ennarasu

representative in India Karunesan

7 Chief economist and senior vice-president for development Indermit Gill

economics in Word Bank

List of Recent Appointments in June 2022

Recent Appointments in India, June 2022

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1 Director-General of NDB’s (New Development Bank) India Dr D J Pandian

Regional Office (IRO) in GIFT City

2 Director General of National Informatics

Centre (NIC) Rajesh Gera

3 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive

Officer R
(CEO) of RBL Bank Subramaniakumar

4 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer Natarajan Sundar

(CEO) pf National Assets Reconstruction Company Ltd
(NARCL)

5 Part-time member of Pension Fund Regulatory & Pankaj Sharma

Development Authority (PFRDA)

6 Managing Director (MD) of SBI Alok Kumar

Choudhary

7 Director-General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Sujoy Lal

Thaosen (S L
Thaosen)

8 Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer

(CEO) Vasudevan
of Equitas Small Finance Bank (ESFB) Pathangi
Narasimhan

9 Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer

(CEO) Ajay Kumar
of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) Srivastava

10 Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer

(CEO) Manimekhalai
of Union Bank of India (UBI)

11 Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer

(CEO) Swaroop Kumar
of Punjab & Sind Bank Saha

12 Chief Executive Officer

(CEO) of India Debt Resolution Avinash Kulkarni
Company Limited (IDRCL)

13 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI (National

Institution Parameswaran
for Transforming India)
Aayog Iyer

Recent Appointments in the World, June 2022

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1 Director of the IMF’s (International Monetary Fund) Krishna Srinivasan

Asia and Pacific Department (APD)

2 President of Albania General Major Bajram

Begaj

3 Prime Minister of Somalia Hamza Abdi Barre

4 Fist leftist President Colombia Gustavo Francisco

Petro Urrego (Gustavo
Petro)

5 President of International Weightlifting

Federation Mohammed Hasan
(IWF) Jalood

6 Permanent
Representative of Bangladesh as the Rabab Fatima
Under
Secretary General or Assistant Secretary
General

7 United Nations Secretary-General Envoy on Amandeep Singh Gill

Technology

List of Recent Appointments in May 2022

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1 Chairman of BSE Limited Subhash Sheoratan

Mundra (SS Mundra)

2 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Central Nand Mulchandani

Intelligence
Agency (CIA)

3 Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena

4 Executive Directors of Reserve Bank of India Rajiv Ranjan and Sitikantha

Pattanaik

5 Chief Minister of Tripura Dr. Manik Saha

6 Private Secretary of Prime Minister Narendra Vivek Kumar

Modi at the Joint Secretary level

7 Chairperson of Central Board of Secondary Nidhi Chibber

Education
(CBSE)

8 Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar

9 Board of Directors Federal Reserve Bank

of Arvind Krishna
New York (New
York Fed)

10 President of Confederation of Indian Industry Sanjiv BajajSanjiv Bajaj

(CII)

11 ex-officio member of Monetary Policy

Committee Dr Rajiv Ranjan
(MPC)

12 Chairman and Managing Director of REC Ltd. Vivek Kumar Dewangen

13 Adviser to Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi Tarun Kapoor

14 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Anshul Swami

Officer
(CEO) of Shivalik Small Finance Bank

15 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Campbell Wilson

Director (MD) of
Air India

16 Chairman of Central Board of

Direct Taxes Sangeeta Singh
(CBDT)

17 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Officer
(CEO) of Paytm

18 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Salil Parekh

Officer (CEO) of Infosys

19 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IndiGo Pieter Elbers

20 External member of the Monetary Policy Dr Swati Dhingra

Committee
(MPC) of the interest ratesetting
committee
Bank of England

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21 Chairman and a voting member
on the Board of Lovlina Borgohain
Directors (BoD) of IBA’s Athletes
Committee

22 President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Chaves

23 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Gopal Vittal

Officer (CEO) of Bharti Airtel Limited

24 President of Philippines Marcos Junior

25 President of United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin

Zayed
Al
Nahyan (popularly
known
as MBZ)

26 President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh

Mohamud

27 Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Norman Albanese

28 Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe

29 Director General (DG) of WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom

Ghebreyesus

30 Prime Minister of France Elisabeth Borne

31 chair of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)’s Anwar Hussain Shaik Chair
Committee on
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)

List of Recent Appointments in April 2022

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1 Principal Scientific Advisor of Government of India (GoI) Ajay Kumar Sood

(AK Sood)

2 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer Jasleen Kohli

(CEO) of Digit Insurance

3 Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban

4 Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Dr Manoj Soni

5 Chief Coordinator of G20 Summit Harsh Vardhan

Shringla

6 Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Army General Manoj

Chandrashekhar
Pande

7 Member Haj Committee of India (HCoI) C Muhammed

Faizi

8 Foreign Secretary of India Vinay Mohan

Kwatra

9 Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abela

10 Chairman of National Accreditation Board for Hospitals Mahesh Verma

and Healthcare providers (NABH)

11 Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Suman K Bery

Transforming India)

12 Managing Director(MD) and Chief Executive Officer(CEO) Anthony Heredia

of Mahindra Manulife
Investment Management Private
Limited

13 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer Bruce de Broize

(CEO) of Future Generali India
Life Insurance (FGILI)

14 Director General(DG) of Geological Survey of India (GSI) Dr. S Raju

15 Chairperson of National Association of Software and Krishnan

Services
Companies (NASSCOM) Ramanujam

16 Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Murali M. Natrajan
of DCB Bank

17 President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic

18 Co-Chair YuWaah! Generation Unlimited India Ashwin Yardi

19 Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Mohammad

Shehbaz Sharif

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20 President of East Timor José Ramos-
Horta

21 Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Patrick Achi

22 Prime Minister of Slovenia Robert Golob

23 President of France Emmanuel

JeanMichel
Frédéric
Macron

24 Climate Change Expert of United Nations Ian Fry

25 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FedEx Raj Subramaniam

26 Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed

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1 Chief minister of Punjab Bhagwant Singh Mann

2 Chief Minister of Goa (second consecutive Pramod Sawant

term)

3 Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (second Yogi Adityanath

consecutive term)

4 Chief Minister of Manipur (second consecutive Nongthombam (N)

term) BirenSingh

5 Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (second Pushkar Singh Dhami

consecutive term)

6 President of Badminton Association of Himanta Biswa Sarma

India(BAI)

7 Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of SBI Nitin Chugh

8 Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board Madhabi Puri Buch

of India (SEBI)

9 Whole-Time Member (WTM) of Securities and Ashwani Bhatia

Exchange Board
of India (SEBI)

10 Chairman of Insurance Regulatory Debasish Panda

Development Authority of
India (IRDAI)

11 Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel Patel Chairperson of Telecom

Disputes Settlement and
Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT)

12 President of Financial Action Task Force T. Raja Kumar

(FATF)

13 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive TS Ramakrishnan

Officer of LIC (Life Insurance Corporation)
Mutual Fund Asset Management Limited

14 Chairman of Tata Sons Private Limited(Tata Natarajan Chandrasekaran(N

Sons) Chandrasekaran)

15 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jet Airways Sanjiv Kapoor

(India) Limited

16 Chairperson National Financial Reporting Ajay Bhushan Pandey

Authority
(NFRA)

17 CEO & President of National eGovernance Abhishek Singh

Division (NeGD)

18 Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Oil Ranjit Rath

India Limited
(OIL)

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19 Managing Director (MD) and Chief
Executive Hisashi Takeuchi
Officer (CEO) of Maruti Suzuki
India Limited
(MSIL)

20 Chairperson of Confederation of Indian Suchitra K Ella

Industry (CII)-southern region

21 Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Rajesh Gopinathan

Officer (CEO) of Tata Consultancy
Services(TCS)

22 Interim Managing Director (MD) and CEO of Pralay Mondal

CSB Bank
Limited

23 President of South Korea Yoon Suk-yeol

24 President of Republic of Hungary Katalin Novak

25 President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow

26 Vice President of MIGA ( Multilateral Junaid Kamal Ahmad

Investment Guarantee Agency)

27 Director-General (DG) of International Labour Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo

Organization
(ILO)

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the organizationAppointments Person

Full-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Sanjeev Sanyal
Minister (EAC-PM).

Head of the organisationController Generalof Accounts (CGA) Sonali Singh

Chairperson of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) Ravi Mittal

Chairperson of University GrantsCommission (UGC) Mamidala

Jagadesh Kumar

Director of Central Board of Reserve Bank ofIndia(RBI) Sanjay Malhotra

Director of National Council of Educational Research and Training Dinesh Prasad

(NCERT) Saklani

Director General of Defence Intelligence Agency G A V Reddy

Managing Director IndiGo (Inter Globe Aviation Ltd) Rahul Bhatia

MD and CEO of Air India Ilker Ayci

Managing Director and Chairman of Rockefeller

International Ruchir Sharma

Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) S Kishore

Executive Chairman of Tata Sons Natarajan

Chandrasekaran

Chairman of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Vineet Joshi

Board of Directors of National Cooperative Dairy

Federation of K S Mani
India(NCDFI)

India’s first National Maritime Security Coordinator (NMSC) in the G Ashok Kumar
National Security Council Secretariat

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) of IDBI Rakesh Sharma
Bank

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Chairman Indian Space Research Organisation Sreedhara Panicker Somanath

(ISRO)

Vice President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Urjit Patel

Bank
(AIIB)

Chairman of the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Dileep Sanghani

Cooperative (IFFCO)

Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Adani Power Shersingh B Khyalia

Limited(APL)

Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Of the Ministry of Dr V Anantha Nageswaran

Finance (India)

Executive Directors (ED) of Reserve Bank of India Deepak Kumar & Ajay Kumar
Choudhary

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vinay Kumar Tripathi

Railway Board

Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India Vikram Dev Dutt

Chairman of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Vijay Paul Sharma

Prices (CACP

Chairman of Apparel Export Promotion Council Narendra Kumar Goenka

(AEPC)

1st woman Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Alka Mittal

of
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)

Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga G Asok Kumar

(NMCG)

Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research Raghuvendra Tanwar

(ICHR)

Chairman of IIFL Finance Arun Kumar Purwar

Chairperson of the Prevention of Money Laundering Vinodanand Jha

Act, 2002 (PMLA)

Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Pushp Kumar Joshi

Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL)

Independent Chairman of Unity Small Finance Bank Vinod Rai

(Unity SFB)

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