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RECENT APPOINTMENTS 2017 COMPLETE LIST
APPOINTMENTS OF CHIEF MINISTERS & GOVERNORS
| NAME | DEPT/FIELD |
| Banwarilal Purohit | Governor of Tamil Nadu |
| (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.) | Governor of Arunachal Pradesh |
| Satya Pal Malik | Governor of Bihar |
| Jagdish Mukhi | Governor of Assam |
| Ganga Prasad | Governor of Meghalaya |
| Devendra Kumar Joshi | Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
| Edappadi K Palaniswami | Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| TR Zeliang | Chief Minister of Nagaland |
| Amarinder Singh | Chief Minister of Punjab |
| Biren Singh | Chief Minister of Manipur |
| Manohar Parrikar | Chief Minister of Goa |
| Trivendra Singh Rawat | Chief Minister of Uttarakhand |
| Yogi Adityanath | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
PRESIDENT
| Ram Nath Kovind Ji | 14th President of India |
| Sanjay Kothari | Secretary to President |
| Venkaiah Naidu | 13th Vice President of India |
| I V Subba Rao | Secretary to Vice President |
APPOINTMENTS ON CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIAN STATES
| DEPT/FIELD | NAME |
| India’s 44th Chief Justice of Supreme Court | Justice JS Khehar |
| Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court | Justice Navniti Prasad |
| Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court | Justice T B Radhakrishnan |
| Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court | Justice Hemant Gupta |
| Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court | Justice P K Mohanty |
| Chief Justice of the patna High Court | Justice Rajendra Menon |
| Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court | Justice Pradeep nandrajog |
| Chief Justice of the Madras High Court | Justice Kumari indira banerjee |
| Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court | Justice B.d. Ahmed |
APPOINTMENTS ON BANKS
| NAME | DEPT/FIELD |
| Rajnish Kumar | Chairman of State Bank of Indiaz |
| R Subramaniakumar | MD and CEO of the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB). |
| Rajkiran Rai G | MD and CEO of Union Bank of India. |
| Sunil Mehta | MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank |
| Usha Ananthasubramanian | MD and CEO of Allahabad Bank |
| Dinabandhu Mohapatra | MD and CEO of the Bank of India |
| Melwyn Reg | MD and CEO of Syndicate Bank |
| Ajay Vipin Nanavati | Chairman of Syndicate Bank |
| Mohammad Mustafa | Chairman of SIDBI |
| R A Sankara Narayanan | MD and CEO of Vijaya Bank. |
| Sunil Kakar | MD and CEO of IDFC Bank |
| Smita Sandhane | MD of Saraswat Bank |
| Rama Moorthy | MD and CEO of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank |
| Harshil Mehta | MD and CEO of DHFL |
| Renu Satti | CEO of Payments Bank |
| T C A Ranganathan | Non-Official Director of Indian Overseas Bank |
| Sunil Mehta | Non-Official Director of Punjab National Bank |
| Neelam Damodaran&Atanu Kumar | Executive Director of Bank of India |
| K Swaminathan | General Manager in Indian Overseas Bank |
| Ashok Kumar Pradhan | ED in United Bank of India |
| P Ramana Murthy | Executive Director of Central Bank of India |
| Fareed Ahmed Khan | ED in Punjab and Sind Bank. |
| M K Bhattacharya | ED of Indian Bank |
| S Harishankar | ED of Allahabad Bank |
| Surekha Marandi | Executive Director of RBI |
| B P Kanungo | RBI deputy governor |
| K G Karmakar
Gauri Shankar |
Directors of India Post Payment Bank |
| Kewal Handa | Non-executive Chairman of Union bank |
| Mukesh Kumar Jain | MD & CEO of Oriental Bank |
| Balasubramanian | Head of Citi Bank |
| Ashish Srivastava | MD & CEO of PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Ltd (PNB MetLife) |
| Matam Venkata Rao | Executive Director of Canara Bank |
| Suresh Sethi | CEO of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) |
| Jayant Rikhye | CEO of HSBC India |
| Sudhanshu Jain | CFO of Paytm Payments Bank |
| Mukesh Kumar Jain | MD & CEO of Oriental Bank |
| David Rasquinha | MD of Exim Bank |
APPOINTMENTS ON HIGH COMMISSIONERS/AMBASSADOR
| NAME | DEPT/FIELD |
| Ms. Ruchira Kamboj | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of South Africa |
| Shri Bishwadip Dey | High Commissioner of India to Grenada |
| Birender Singh Yadav | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Sierra Leone |
| Ausaf Sayeed | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Seychelles |
| Vishvas Vidu Sapkal | High Commissioner of India to Tuvalu |
| Ravi Shankar | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Rwanda |
| Vikas Swarup | High Commissioner of India to Canada |
| Pradeep Kumar Rawat | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Indonesia |
| Shamma Jain | Ambassador of India to Greece |
| Pooja Kapur | Ambassador of India to Bulgaria |
| Reenat Sandhu | Ambassador of India to Italy |
| Venu Rajamony | Ambassador of India to Netherlands |
| Ajit Vinayak Gupte | Ambassador of India to Denmark |
| Param Jit Mann | Ambassador of Indian to Republic Slovenia |
| Jaideep Mazumdar | Ambassador of India to Philippines |
| Vani Sarraju Rao | Ambassador of India to Finland |
| Shamma Jain | Indian envoy to Greece |
| Pradeep Kumar Rawat | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Indonesia |
| Sandeep Chakravorty | Indian Ambassador to Peru |
| Prabhat Kumar | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Kazakhstan |
| Sohail Mahmood | Pak’s High Commissioner to India |
| R.K. Raghavan | High Commissioner of India to Cyprus |
| Parineeti Chopra | First Indian Woman Ambassador for Tourism Australia |
| Ajay Bisaria | India’s high Commissioner to Pakistan |
| Gautam Bambawale | India’s high commissioner to China |
| Sibi George | Ambassador of India to Switzerland |
| J.N. Gangte | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Zambia |
| Manika Jain | Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Cambodia |
| Kenneth I. Juster | U.S Ambassador to India |
| Nikolay Kudashev | Russia’s envoy to India |
| Woody Johnson | US Ambassador to UK |
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
| NAME | DEPT/FIELD |
| Sunaina Singh | Vice-chancellor of Nalanda University |
| Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University |
| Najma Heptulla | Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia |
| Professor Royana Singh | woman chief proctor of Banaras Hindu University |
| Vinod Rai | Chief of BCCI |
| Amulya Patnaik | Commissioner of Delhi Police |
| David R Syiemlieh | Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) |
| Karan Bajwa | IBM India Managing Director |
| S Padmanabhan | Chairman of Tata Power Company |
| Vishal Kaul | COO of Ola cabs |
| Vikram Pawah | The President of India operations of BMW |
| Praful Patel | Member of FIFA finance committee |
| Alok Verma | Director of the CBI |
| Kalyan Krishnamurthy | CEO of Flipkart |
| Anand Kumar Gupta | Director of NTPC |
| Vikram Limaye | CEO, MD of National Stock Exchange |
| Vinay Shah | MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance |
| Raman Roy | Chairman of NASSCOM |
| Debjani Ghosh | President of NASSCOM |
| Arun M Kumar | Indian Chairman of KPMG |
| Shashi Shekar Vempati | CEO of Prasar Bharati |
| Hemant Bhargava | MD of LIC |
| Neelu Rohmetra | First woman Director of an IIM |
| CA Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey | President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) |
| CA Naveen N.D. Gupta | Vice President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) |
| Nand Kumar Sai | Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) |
| Shiva Kirti Singh | Chairman of the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) |
| Vinay Shah | MD & CEO of LIC Housing Finance |
| Braj Bihari Kumar | Chairman Of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) |
| Mallikarjun Kharge | Chairman Of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) |
| Anthony Lianzuala | New Controller General of Accounts |
| Shobana Kamineni | President Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) |
| Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah | Chairman of the Tea Board of India |
| Justice (Retd.) Mukul Mudgal | Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee |
| Rajan Anandan | Head of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). |
| Anurag Tripathy | Secretary of CBSE |
| Miroslav lajack | CEO of Jet Airways |
| Sanjiv Singh | Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation |
| Hoshiar Singh | Chief of copyrights office |
| Ramanathan Ramanan | Head of Atal Mission under NITI Aayog |
| N N Vohra | President of the India International Centre (IIC) |
| K. Kasturirangan | Head of National Education Policy |
| KK Venugopal | Attorney General of India |
| Narendra Kumar Sinha | Secretary of Information & Broadcasting |
| Achal kumar jyoti | India’s new chief election commissioner |
| R K Pachnanda | Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) |
| N Chandrasekaran | Chairman of Tata Global Beverages Limited |
| Gowra Srinivas | President of Federation of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTAPCCI) |
| John Joseph | Chief of GST intelligence agency |
| Raninder Singh (reelects | President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) |
| Ravi Shastri | Coach of the Indian cricket team |
| Zaheer Khan | Bowling coach of the Indian Cricket Team |
| Debi Prasad Dash | Chief of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence |
| Ned Segal | Chief Financial Officer at Twitter |
| Justice Vikramajit Sen | Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) |
| Aarthi Subramanian | Chief Digital Officer of TATA groups |
| Rajiv Kumar | Vice-Chairperson of NITI Aay |
| Sanjaya Baru | Secretary general of FICCI |
| Param Shah | Director of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) |
| Sethurathnam Ravi | Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) |
| Ushanath Banerjee | Chairman of Transfers Dispute Committee |
| Shashi Shekhar Vempati | Chief of Rajya Sabha TV |
| Santosh Sharma | CMD of Hindustan Copper Limited |
| Sankara Rao | IFCI Chief Executive |
| Neil Chatterjee | Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). |
| Dharmendra Kumar | DG of Railway Protection Force |
| Dr. Mamta Suri | Executive director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) |
| Rajiv Bansal | Interim Air India CMD |
| Ashwani Lohani | CMD of Railway Board Chairman |
| Justice Dipak Misra | 45th Chief Justice of India |
| Roopa Purushothaman | Chief Economist & Head of Policy Advocacy |
| Ashish Chauhan | CEO of BSE Board |
| N. Baijendra Kumar | Chairman & Managing Director, National Mineral Development |
| Anita Karwal | Chairperson of Central Board of Secondary Education |
| Sunil Arora | Election Commissioner |
| N Baijendra Kumar | Chief of National Mineral Development Corporation |
| A.B. Pandey | Chairman of Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) |
| Viveck Goenka | PTI Chairman |
| M Nagaraja Sarma | CMD of United India Insurance |
| Punit Goenka | President of Indian Broadcasting Foundation |
| Balraj Joshi | Chairman of NHPC Ltd |
| Shashi Shanker | Chairman of ONGC |
| Anupam Kher | Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | President of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDRajiv BansalSA) |
| NK Singh | Chairman of 15th Finance Commission |
| N. Sharma | Chairman of National Anti-profiteering Authority |
| Pradeep Singh Kharola | CMD of New Air India |
| Snehlata Shrivastava | Lok Sabha Secretary General |
| Sanjay Kumar | Chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) |
| Ranjan Kumar Ghose | Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General |
| Surina Rajan | Director General, Bureau of Indian Standards |
| N B Gupta | Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC) |
| Dr. Mamta Suri | Executive director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) |
| Prasoon Joshi | Censor board chief |
| Y.C. Modi | Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). |
| Akila Urankar | President The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) |
| Rajat Sharma | President of News Broadcasters Association |
| Ramesh Narayan | President of the India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA) |
| Anil Khaitan | President of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
| Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar | Vice Chief of Naval Staff |
| Mary Kom | Youth World Championships ambassador |
| Vijay Prasad Dimri | President of 36th Intl Geological Congress |
| Andrew W K Langstieh | Chairman of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) |
| Shaji Prabhakaran | president of the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) |
| NS Venkatesh | CEO of Association of Mutual Funds in India(AMFI) |
| Urjit Patel | Financial Stability Institute Advisory Board or the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | President of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) |
| Shubhangi Swaroop | First female pilot in Indian Navy |
| P.V. Sindhu | Deputy Collector of Andra Pradesh |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | DSP of Punjab government |
| Air Marshal Hemant Narayan Bhagwat | Air Officer-In-Charge Administration Of Indian Air Force |
| Ned Segal | Chief Financial Officer at Twitter |
| Professor Subra Suresh | President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore |
| Shanmugh Natarajan | MD for Adobe Systems in India. |
| Lord Davies | Chair Of The UK India Business Council |
| Devendra Chawla | COO of Walmart India |
| Nikhil Arora | VP and MD of India operations of Godaddy |
| Vinay Dube | CEO of Jet Airways |
| Vishpala Reddy | Chief People’s Officer of Uber |
| Dara khosrowshahi | CEO of Uber |
| Sanjiv gupta | President and MD of General Motors India |
| Nandan Nilekani | Chairman of Infosys Board |
| Rajiv Sabharwal | Tata Capital CEO |
| John Flint | Chief Executive of HSBC |
| Jayant Rikhye | CEO of HSBC India |
| Rukaiya Rangwala | Head of MobiKwik Payment Gateway |
| Izham Ismail | CEO of Malaysia Airlines |
| Rakesh Asthana | CBI Special Director |
| Bhaskar Ganguly | Ombudsman of All India Football Federation (AIFF) |
| Shaktikanta Das | India’s G20 Sherpa |
APPOINTMENTS ON MINISTRY
| NAME | DEPT/FIELD |
| Binoy Kumar | Directorate General of Supplies & Disposals (DGS&D),Ministry of Commerce & Industry, as Director General, Directorate General of Supplies & Disposals (DGS&D), Ministry of Commerce & Industry |
| R. Sridharan | Special Secretary, Ministry of Mines, as Member (Finance), Space Commission |
| N K Sinha | Tourism Secretary |
| Sanjay Mitra | Defence Secretary |
| Ms Leena Nair | Secretary of Tribal Affairs |
| Harsh Vardhan | Environment Minister |
| Vikas Swarup | Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson |
| Sanjeev Sanyal | Principal Economic Adviser |
| Subhash Garg | Economic Affairs Secretary |
| Rajesh Kotecha | Special secretary in Ayush ministry |
| Rajiv Gauba | Home Secretary |
| Vijay Keshav Gokhale | Economic relations secretary in Ministry of External Affairs |
| Hasmukh Adhia | Finance Secretary |
| Upendra Prasad Singh | Secretary of water resources |
| Ajay Kumar | Secretary of defence production |
| Rajiv Gauba | Union Home Secretary |
| Gopal Baglay | Joint Secretary in Prime Minister’s Office |
INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
| NAME | DEPT/FIELD |
| Jovenel Moise | President of Haiti |
| Nana Akufo-Addo | President of Ghana |
| Daniel Ortega | President of Nicaragua |
| Qi Zhala | Governor of Tibet |
| Frank-Walter Steinmeier | President of Germany |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba | Prime Minister of Nepal |
| Aleksandar Vucic | President of Serbia |
| Leo Varadkar | Prime Minister of Ireland |
| Mohammed bin Salman | Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince |
| Lenin Moreno | President of Ecuador |
| Moon Jae-in | President of South Korea |
| Emmanuel Macron | President of France |
| Edouard Philippe | Prime Minister of France |
| Hassan Ali Khaire | Prime Minister of Somalia |
| Justice Mian Saqib Nisar | 25th Chief Justice of Pakistan |
| Moussa Faki Mahamat | Head of African Union |
| Rex Tillerson | US secretary of state |
| Miroslav lajack | President of UN General Assembly |
| Sir Tim Barrow | Britain’s EU Ambassador |
| Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | World Health Organization Chief |
| Christopher Wray | New FBI director of USA |
| Derk Segaar | Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) |
| Amjad Hussain B Sial | Secretary-General of SAARC |
| Ana Brnabic | First woman Prime Minister of Serbia |
| Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor | First female chief executive of Hong Kong |
| Justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli | Chief Justice of Nepal |
| Brenda Hale | UK Supreme Court’s first female President |
| Devendra Chawla | COO of Walmart India |
| Sameer Garde | President for SAARC operations |
| Hassan Rouhani | President of Iran |
| Emmerson Mnangagwa | President of Zimbabwe |
| Ine Eriksen | Norway’s 1st Female Foreign Minister |
| Jacinda Ardern | New Zealand Prime Minister |
| Joao Lourenco | President of Angola |
| Mercedes Araoz Fernandez | Prime Minister of Peru |
| Halimah Yacob | 1st Female President of Singapore |
| Preet Didbal | US’ first Sikh woman Mayor |
| Audrey Azoulay | Director-General of UNESCO |
| Raquel Dodge | Brazil’s First Female Attorney General |
| S Aparna | Executive Director of World Bank |
| Sandhu-Rojon | UN deputy representative for West Africa |
| Ban Ki-moon | Chair of the IOC Ethics Commission |
| Tamil actor Trisha Krishnan | UNICEF celebrity advocate status |
| Justice Dalveer Bhandari | Judge of International Court of Justice (ICJ) |
| Aga Hussain | President of Asia Rugby |
| Chakravarthi AVPS | Ambassador of World Packaging Organisation |
| Tulsi Gabbard | Chairperson of World Hindu Congress 2018 |
| Esther Staubli | First Female Referee to Officiate at U-17 World Cup |
| Sunny Verghese | Chairman of World Business Council for Sustainable Development |
| Gordon Watson | CEO of Global insurance company AXA, Asia |
APPOINTMENTS ON GOODWILL AMBASSADOR
| NAME | DEPT/FIELD |
| Muzoon Almellehan | Youngest Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF |
| Amitabh Bachchan | WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis |
| Saima Wazed Hossain | WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Autism in South Asia |
| Superwoman Lilly Singh | UNICEF’s Global Goodwill Ambassador |
| Dia Mirza | UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador for India |
| Quarraisha Abdool Karim | UNAIDS Special Ambassador |
| Milkha Singh | WHO’s goodwill ambassador |
| Neymar da Silva Santos | Goodwill ambassador of Handicap International |
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