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List of Appointments in 2018

List of Appointments 2018

January 2018
Name of the PersonDesignation
IAS officer N C Goel Chief Secretary of Rajasthan
Vijay Keshav GokhaleForeign secretary
Pankaj Jain Additional charge of Managing Director in India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL).
Salil Parekh IT giant, Infosys
UB Pravin Rao Chief Operating Officer and a whole-time Director 
Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga New Prime Minister of Mali
Rajinder KhannaDeputy National Security Adviser
Dilip Asbe Managing Director and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) 
K Sivan New Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO
Harjinder SinghChef De Mission for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games
Sunny Verghese Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Indu Malhotra, a senior advocateFirst woman lawyer as judge of the apex court
V J MathewChairman of Maritime Board
Anil Khanna Chairman of the Finance Commission of the Indian Olympic Association
Vijay Kumar Managing Director and CEO NCDEX
S SelvakumarAdditional charge of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd (SPMCIL
Former Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel New Governor of Madhya Pradesh
Om Prakash Rawat Chief Election Commissioner
Ashok LavasaElection Commissioner
IPS officer Sudeep Lakhtakia Director general of National Security Guard (NSG).
Music composer AR Rahman Brand ambassador of Sikkim
Dilip Chenoy Director general of Industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry 
Shri Srikumar MenonAmbassador of India to the Republic of Angola
S Somnath The new director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)
Jerome Powell Head of the Federal Reserve
Usha Ananthasubramanian, MD and CEO of Allahabad BankThe first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
Milos Zeman Second five-year, Czech Republic’s pro-Russia president 
Vikram Singh SisodiaChef-de-Mission for the upcoming Commonwealth Games
February 2018
Neelam KapurDirector general (DG) of Sports Authority of India (SAI)
Lt. Gen Anil ChauhanDirector General of Military Operations (DGMO) of the Indian Army
John HennessyChairman of Alphabet
Nicos AnastasiadesPresident of the Republic of Cyprus.
Syed Mahmud HossainChief Justice of Bangladesh
Dinesh SrivastavaChief Executive of Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC)
Jerome Powell16th chairman of the Federal Reserve,
Hardayal PrasadSBI Card MD & CEO
Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCoFirst independent female director of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Board
Biswamohan MahapatraNon-executive chairman of National Payments Corporation of India
Chandrashekhara Kambara, Eminent Kannada writer and Jnanpith winnerPresident of Kendra Sahitya Akademi.
Haruhiko KurodaGovernor of Bank of Japan
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli41st Prime Minister of Nepal.
Vice Admiral R B Pandit,Commandant of Indian Naval Academy
Arvind JamkhedharChairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
Debashish MukherjeeExecutive directors of Canara Bank
Murali RamaswamiExecutive directors of Vijaya Bank
Ranil WickremesingheMinisterial post of law and order ministry
Michael McCormackNew Deputy Prime Minister
Nhlanhla NeneFinance Minister of south Africa
Samina Baig , a Pakistani womanNational goodwill ambassador by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
March 2018
A K Pradhan Group Chief Risk Officer of Punjab national bank
Senior IAS officer Sudhir Tripathy Chief Secretary of Jharkhand
R Subrahmanyam New Secretary, Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. 
Vinay Kumar appointedIndia’s Ambassador to Afghanistan
Virat Kohli Ambassador of Luminous Power Technologies brand Amaze.
Air Marshal RKS Shera Air Officer-in-charge Maintenance of Indian Air Force
Rangarajan RaghavanDirector & managing director of HCL Info systems
Armen Sarkisian The President of Armenian country
Rashid Khan Youngest International Cricket Captain
Neil Basu Chief of counter-terrorism,
Krishna Kumari Kohli Elected to the Pakistan Senate. 
MS Dhoni Brand Ambassador of gaming platform dream 11
Chris Ciriello Analytical coach of Indian hockey team 
P K GuptaAs Nominee Director on SBI Life 
Neiphiu RioChief minister of Nagaland
Biplab Kumar DebChief minister of Tripura governmnet
Sandeep Bakhshi 2-yr extension as MD of ICICI Prudential Life insurance
Vivek WadekarNew Special Director in Enforcement Directorate
Sanjeev GuptaUK Skills Ambassador
Prakriti Combat Officer In The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force 
Virat KohliBrand ambassador of Uber

Sitanshu Kar 
Head of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) 
Suresh PrabhuAdditional charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry
Bidya Devi BhandariRe-elected as President of Nepal
Angela Merkel4th Term As German Chancellor
Gina HaspelCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s First Female Director
Sangeeta BahadurAmbassador Of India To Belarus
Larry KudlowTrump’s New Economic Adviser
Yi Gang as newCentral bank governor of china
Vladimir PutinFourth term as Russian President
Li KeqiangRe-elected as Prime Minister of China for second term
Satya Pal MalikAdditional Charge as Governor of Odisha
Shri Atul M. Gotsurve, Ambassador of India to Korea
Nanda Bahadur Pun Nepal’s New Vice President: 
John BoltonNew National Security Adviser to Trump
Martin VizcarraAs Peru’s New President
Balesh SharmaCEO Of Vodafone-Idea India Merged Entity
JS RajputNomination to the UNESCO Executive Board
Win MyintNew Myanmar President
Justice Jawad RahimActing Chairperson of NGT
Indu BhushanChief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Centre’s ambitious Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission (ABNHPM).
Vijay RaghavanPrincipal Scientific Advisor To Government of India
TV Journalist Rahul MahajanRajya Sabha TV Editor-In-Chief
ChinaVice President of FATF
Michael McCormackAustralia’s New Deputy Prime Minister
Conrad SangmaCM Of Meghalaya
Justice KhanwilkarHead of Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal
Rosemary DiCarlo First female UN political chief

June 2018

Name of the PersonDesignation
IAS office Amit Khare
Secretary in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Giuseppe Conte
prime minister of Italy
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
President of Egypt
Pedro Sanchez
Spain's New PM. He has replaced Mariano Rajoy.
Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra
Additional Charge Of DRDO Chairman
MK Jain
RBI’s new Deputy Governor. RBI's 4  Deputy Governors are NS Vishwanathan, Viral V Acharya, BP Kanungo and newly appointed MK Jain.
West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi
Additional Charge As Tripura Governor
Former NIA (National Investigation Agency) chief Sharad Kumar
Vigilance Commissioner In CVC (Central Vigilance Commission)
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance CEO Sandeep Bakhshi
whole-time director and chief operating officer (COO)
Ivan Duque
Colombia's President also he is Colombia's youngest ever President.
Former World Bank Economist Omar Al-Razzaz
Jordan PM. he succeeded Hani al-Mulki
Dr. Inder Jit Singh
As Secretary, Ministry Of Coal
Indian-American Dhivya Suryadevara
CFO Of General Motors
Tayyip Erdogan
 President Of Turkey
Senior bureaucrat S Ramesh
chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)
Arvind Saxena
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Chairman
Arijit Basu
SBI's New Managing Director
managing director State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur B Sriram
Resigned and appointment as chief executive of IDBI Bank, replaced Mahesh Kumar Jain
Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Nasser Khan Janjua
Resigned
World's Most Experienced Spacewoman Peggy Whitson
Retires As Astronaut
The Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) of India, Arvind Subramanian
resigned
Jammu & Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti
Resigned

List of Apointments 2017

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Designation
Person
SEBI ChairmanAjay Tyagi
Chancellor of Nalanda UniversityDr Vijay Bhatkar
CBI directorAlok Verma
Executive director of RBISurekha Marandi
UPSC chairmanDavid R Syiemlieh
New Air Force chiefBirender Singh Dhanao
Governor of DelhiAnil Baijal
RBI Deputy GovernorViral V Acharya
New chief of Research and Analysis WingRajinder Khanna
New chief of Intelligence BureauRajiv Jain
Chief Justice of IndiaJustice Dipak Misra
New Director General of Military operations(DGMO)AK Bhatt
Pakistan Army chiefQamar Bajwa
Director of Lal Bahadur Shastri national academy of administration(LBSNAA)Upma Chowdhary
Chairman of national legal services authority (NALSA)Tirath Singh Thakur
CR, MD & CEO of Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest (CERSAI)Praveen Kumar SHARMA
RBI New Executive DirectorM Rajeshwar Rao
New Delhi Police ChiefAmulya Kumar Patnaik
President of Table Tennis Federation of IndiaDushyant Chautala
New UN Secretary GeneralAntonio Guterres
44th Chief Justice of IndiaJustice Jagdish Singh Khehar
CEO Prasar BhartiShashi Shekhar Vempati
Bharti AXA CEODeepak Iyer
Chairman of UPSCDavid R Syiemlieh
Chief of Army StaffLt Gen Dalbir Singh,
Executive Director of RBISurekha Marandi
Indian-origin Deputy Assistant to The President of United States and Deputy Communications and Research DirectorRaj Shah
New President of European ParliamentAntonio Tajani
Distinguished Senior Fellow of Atlantic CouncilManish Tewari
UK’s Ambassador to European UnionTim Barrow
New CBI Director(former Delhi Police
Commissioner)
Alok Kumar Verma
Director of Central Intelligence AgencyMike Pompeo
New Secretary of Department of Food and PDSPreeti Sudan
Nominated Chairman of BoD of Tata PowerS Padmanabhan
Will head Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism( Former Pakistan Chief)Raheel Sharif
New CEO of FlipkartKalyan Krishnamurthy
SBI Pension Funds MD and CEOKumar Sharadindu
New president of BMW Group IndiaVikram Pawah
J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti’s brother inducted in PDPMufti Tassaduq Hussain
Chancellor of Nalanda UniversityDr. Vijay Bhatkar
US envoy to United NationsNikki Haley
Appointed by UN as India Goodwill Ambassador for SDGs(Sustainable Development Goals)Ashok Amritraj
President of HaitiJovenel Moise
First Non-Parsiand new chairman of TCSN Chandrasekaran
New Governor of Tibet appointed by ChinaXinhua
Chairman of African Union CommissionMoussa Faki Mahamat
Karnataka LokayuktaP Vishwanath Shetty
Head of BCCI Administration Panel(Former CAG)Vinod Rai
New Chairman of Snap Inc. after resigning from Sony Entertainment CEO PostMichael Lynton
Assam Governor who got additional charge of MeghalayaBanwarilal Purohit
Chairman of Eastern India Regional Council of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India(ICSI)Siddhartha Murarka
Appointed member of FIFA Finance CommitteePraful Patel
Group President and COO of Baidu, leading Chinese ISPDr. Qi Lu
HR Head for Capgemini for India operationsAnil Jalali
IBM India chairmanVanitha Narayanan
New National Intelligence Director of USDaniel Coats
Chairman of OERC( Odisha Electricity Regulatory mission)UN Behera
Pakistan’s first women foreign secretary to UNTehmina Janjua
US Secretary of StateRex Tillerson
DGP of KarnatakaNeelamani N Raju
Chairman and CEO of KMPGArun M Kumar
ED DirectorKarnal Singh
President of GermanyFrank Walter Steinmeier
SEBI ChairmanAjay Tyagi
New ASSOCHAM PresidentSandeep Jajodia
First women IIM DirectorDr. Neelu Rohmetra
Ambassador of India to PhilippinesJaideep Mazumdar .
LIC MDSushobhan Sarkar,
Principle Economic Advisor in Finance MinistrySanjeev Sanyal
Director Commerical at NTPCAnand Kumar Gupta
CEO and MD of NSEChitra Ramkrishna
Top Indian reappointment to UN Joint Inspection UnitAchamkulangare Gopinathan
Godrej Properties ChairmanPirojsha Godrej
Chairman Emeritus positionAdi Godrej
Three whole time members in IBBISuman Saxena,Mukulita Vijaywargiya, Navrang Saini
DGP of KarnatakaNeelamani N Raju
Chairman & CEO of KPMG IndiaArun M Kumar
US secretary of stateRex Tillerson
Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED)Karnal Singh
President of GermanyFrank-Walter Steinmeier
Pakistan’s first woman foreign secretary to UNTehmina Janjua
Under Secretary General for UN’s peacekeeping operationsFrance’s Jean-Pierre Lacroix
Chief of Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA)Justice Vikramajit Sen
High Commissioner of India to CanadaVikas Swarup
US National Security AdvisorLt-Gen HR McMaster
Chairman of Cauvery water Disputes TribunalJustice Abhay Manohar Sapre
Vice Chairman of Asian Hockey Federation (AHF)Abhijit Sarkar
Chief Information Commissioner of J&KKhursheed A Ganai
Spokesperson of MEARaveesh Kumar
Brand Ambassador of Sight saversKabir Bedi
Director of SVP National Police AcademyD R Dooley Barman (IPS officer)
Chief Secretary of MaharashtraSumit Mullick (IAS officer)
Chairman of National commission for scheduled TribesNand Kumar Sai
UN Deputy Secretary-GeneralAmina J Mohammed (Nigerian)
Chairman of SEBIAjay Tyagi
India’s Ambassador to World Trade OrganizationJ S Deepak
Prime Minister of SUDANHassan Saleh
Maharashtra’s Chief Commissioner of RTSSwadheen Kshatriya
Chairman & MD of MTNLP K Purwar
Secretary General of SAARCAmjad Hussain B Sial
Chief Advisor to Odisha GovernmentK Srinath Reddy
NSE MD & CEOVikram Limaye
Members of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)Dr. Mukulita Vijayawargiya, Dr Navrang Saini and Ms Suman Saxena
MD, LICHemant Bhargava
Union Mines SecretaryArun Kumar (IAS officer)
Two new members to UPSCMs. Sujata Mehta (IFS officer), Air Marshal Ajit S Bhonsle
Deputy Director General (DDG), Narcotics Control BureauMohammed Taj Hassan (IPS Officer)
Indian Ambassador to NepalManjeev Singh Puri (IFS Officer)
Director (Finance), Power Finance CorporationNaveen Bhushan Gupta
Additional charge of Dept. of Telecommunication SecretaryAruna Sundararajan,
President of European councilDonald Tusk (Poland)
Chairman of Central Water CommissionNarendra Kumar
Defence MinisterNirmala Sitharaman
Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High courtHemant Gupta
Chief of centres for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesSeema Verma
Chief Justice of Jharkhand High courtD .N.Patel
Chief Justice of Kerala High courtNavniti Prasad
Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High courtBalram Das Tandon
Acting Chief Justice of J&K High courtRamalingam Sudhakar
Director of National Intelligence, USDan Coats
US President’s National Security AdvisorLieutenant General HR McMaster
Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai KaramcharisManhar Valjibhai Zala
Deputy Governor of RBIBibhu Prasad Kanungo
Chief Secretary of PunjabKaran Avtar Singh
Uttarakhand CMTrivendra Singh Rawat
Uttar Pradesh CMYogi Adityanath
Member (Traction), Railway BoardGhanshyam Singh
Chief Financial Officer of International Cricket Council(ICC)Ankur Khanna
Interim Director General of International Solar Alliance(ISA)Upendra Tripathy
Whole Time Member of SEBIMadhabi Puri
Deputy speaker of Goa assemblyMichael Lobo
Director of AIIMS, New DelhiDr.Randeep Guleria
President of the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human RightsVanita Gupta
Speaker of Punjab Legislative AssemblyRana Kanwar Pal Singh
Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP)David Beasley
Chief Justice of Madras High CourtIndira Banerjee
President of Tamil Nadu Film Producers CouncilVishal
Consul General of DubaiVipul
The country elected as president of UN-Habitat, an organ of UNOIndia
Chairman of Tea Board of IndiaPrabhat Kamal Bezboruah
Chairman of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)Braj Bihari
Chairman of Public Accounts CommitteeMallikarjun Kharge
Controller General of AccountsAnthony Lianzuala
Director General of Central Reserve Police Force(CRPF)Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar
Twitter’s Country Director for IndiaTaranjeet Singh
Defence SecretarySanjay Mitra
Secretary of Department of TelecommunicationsAruna Sundararajan
WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for HepatitisAmitabh Bachchan
Chancellor of JNUV K Saraswat
Deputy Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)Ovais Sarmad
Additional Charge of Environment MinistryDr.Harshvardhan
First African WHO Director -GeneralTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Vice-Chairman of National Commission for MinoritiesGeorge Kurian
Chairman of Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)Rajan Anandan
President of IranHassan Rouhani
Deputy chief of Integrated Defence StaffAir Marshal P N Pradhan
Chairman of FIFA Governance CommitteeJustice Mukul Mudgal
President of South KoreaMoon Jae-in
Member of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission( FERC), USANeil Chatterjee
President of FranceEmmanuel Macron
Head of Allahabad BankUsha AnanthaSubramanian
Head of Syndicate BankArun Shrivastava
MD and CEO of Union BankRajkiran Rai G
Head of Punjab National BankSunil Mehta
MD & CEO of Bank of IndiaDinabandhu Mohapatra
MD & CEO of Vijaya BankR A Sankara Narayanan
Public Policy Fellow to a top US-based Think-TankNirupama Rao
CEO of Prasar BharatiShashi Shekar Vempati
Judge in US Court of AppealsAmul Thapar
Prime Minister of NepalSher Bahadur Deuba
Registrar of Copyrights officeHoshiar Singh
FBI DirectorChristopher Wray
First Indian woman Member of ITLOS(International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea)Neeru Chadha
Punjab Assembly Deputy SpeakerAjaib Singh Bhatti
Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEFMuzoon Akmellehan (Syrian)
US Ambassador to IndiaKenneth I Juster
Under Secretary General of UN Counter Terrorism officeVladimir Voronkov
Union Home SecretaryRajiv Gauba
President of International Economic AssociationKaushik Basu
President of India International CentrNarinder Nath Vohra
DGP of KeralaLoknath Behra
US Ambassador to PeruKrishna R Urs
Secretary in I&B MinistryNarendra Kumar Sinha
Attorney General of IndiaKK Venugopal
Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border PoliceRK Pachnanda
Chief Election CommissionerAchal Kumar Joti
Director General of National Disaster Response ForceR. K. Pachnanda
Chairman of IIT- KharagpurSanjiv Goenka
WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Autism in South AsiaSaima Wazed Hossain
MD & CEO of National Stock Exchange(NSE)Vikram Limaye
President of SerbiaAleksander Vucic
First Turbaned judge in CanadaPalbinder Kaur
Economic Affairs SecretarySubhash Chandra Garg
MD & CEO of IDFC BankDr. Rajiv B. Lall
Part-Time chairman Lakshmi Vilas BankB K Manjunath
Executive Director of RBIS Ganesh Kumar
Chairperson of Central Board of Film CertificationPrasoon Joshi
Deputy Comptroller for minority affairs in New YorkDilip Chauhan
45th Chief Justice of IndiaJustice Dipak Misra
Executive Director at World BankAparna, IAS Officer
Vice Chairman of NITI AayogRajiv Kumar
Air Officer-in-charge, Administration of Indian Air ForceAir Marshal Hemant Narayan Bhagwat
CMD of SIDBIMohammad Mustafa
Secretary General of FICCISanjaya Baru
FBI DirectorChristopher Wray
Chief of Eastern CommandLt Gen Abhay Krishna
14th President of IndiaRamnath Kovind
Joint Secretary in PMOGopal Baglay
Secretary to New Indian PresidentSanjay Kothari
Chairman of UK-India Business CouncilLord Mervyn Davies
Chief Minister of NagalandTR Zeliang
Additional charge as Information & Broadcasting MinisterSmriti Irani
Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC)Justice Vikramajit Sen
WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Autism in South AsiaSaima Wazed Hossain
13th Vice President of IndiaMohammad Hamid Ansari
Non-Executive chairman of Union BankKewal Handa
MD & CEO of Syndicate BankMelwyn Rego
New Head Coach of Indian Cricket TeamRavi Shastri
MD & CEO of Oriental BankMukesh Kumar Jain
Additional charge as Minister for Housing & Urban AffairsNarendra Tomar
UK Supreme Court’s first female presidentBrenda Hale
CEO of Janalakshmi Financial ServicesAjay Kanwal
CEO of Axis BankShikha Sharma


List of Brand Ambassadors

Person appointed
Programme
Aim
Amitabh BachchanCity Compost CampaignA part of the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’
John AbrahamArunachal Pradesh Tourism AmbassadorTo promote tourism in Arunachal Pradesh
Narendra ModiIncredible India
Nawazuddin SiddiquiUP farmers’ scheme Samajwadi Kisan Beema YojnaThe scheme provides for cashless treatment up to Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs. one lakh for the organ transplant.
PV SindhuCentral Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
Sachin TendulkarAnti- liquor and antidrug campaign of KeralaIt will create awareness among people against alcoholism and drug abuse.
Sakshi MalikBeti Bachao, Beti Padao campaign” in HaryanaChosen to promote the tourism of Arunachal Pradesh
Virat KohliPunjab National Bank
Vidya BalanSamajwadi Pension YojnaLaunched by Uttar Pradesh Govt.
Piruz KhambattaMake In IndiaLaunched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Shah Rukh KhanWest Bengal Brand AmbassadorThe campaign started with shortlisting 200 places from all of the Indian states.
Steffi GrafKerala's AyurvedaTo promote tourism and position the state of Kerala as home of ayurveda.
Shilpa ReddyConfederation of Women Entrepreneurs (COWE)Create centres of excellence for women to gain knowledge, develop skills, provide infrastructure, access to
resources to their business.
Baba RamdevBrand Ambassador of yoga and Ayurveda in HaryanaPromote yoga and Ayurveda in a big way
Ankit FadiaDigital IndiaIt was launched on 1 July 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Amitabh BachchanSwachh Bharat AbhiyanStarted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Amitabh BachchanPulse PolioTo promote Polio Eradication Campaign
Dia MirzaSwachh SaathiSwachh Bharat Mission’s youth-based Swachh Saathi (student internship) programme
Madhuri DixitMAA- Mother's Absolute Affection'
Deepika PadukoneIndian Psychiatric SocietyThe largest association of Indian Psychiatrists

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