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List of New Appointments (Who is Who) in May 2018

Dear friends, here is the complete list of new appointments of the month May 2018. This list will be very helpful for you in your upcoming Banking, Insurance and Railway. Happy reading :)

Complete List of New Appointments May 2018

  • Ajay Kumar Mittal - Acting Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court
  • Alicia Pucheta - 1st woman President, Paraguay
  • Amar Devulapalli - President, Indian Journalists Union (IJU)
  • Ambika Sharma - Head, US India Business Council (India)
  • Amit Jain - Regional general manager for Asia Pacific region (APAC), Uber
  • Amit Khare - Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
  • Anil Kumar Jha - CMD, Coal India
  • Anjali Bansal - Chairperson, Dena Bank
  • Anubrata Biswas - MD & CEO, Airtel Payments Bank
  • C K Prasad - Chairman, Press Council of India (PCI) 
  • C Raja Mohan - Director, Institute of South Asian Studies
  • Charan Singh - Chairperson, Punjab & Sind Bank
  • Chris Daniels - CEO, Whatsapp
  • Deepa Ambekar - Interim Judge, Civil Court of New York City
  • Deepak Khandekar - Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs
  • Devraj Anbu - new Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS)
  • Dilip Tirkey - Chairman, Odisha Tourism Development Corporation
  • G Parameshwara - Deputy Chief Minister, Karnataka (1st Dalit)
  • Ganeshi Lal - Governor, Odisha
  • Gina Haspel - 1st Female Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • Giuseppe Conte - Prime Minister, Italy
  • Haradanahalli Devegowda Kumaraswamy - Chief Minister, Karnataka
  • Harendra Singh - Chief Coach, Indian Men’s Hockey Team
  • Heera Lal Samariya - Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment
  • Himanta Biswa Sarma - Vice President, Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC)
  • Ibrahima Kassory Fofana - Prime Minister, Guinea (West Africa)
  • Jagdish Mukhi - Acting Governor, Manipur (in absence of Najma Heptullah)
  • Juthika Patankar - Director General, National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD)
  • Kummanam Rajasekharan - Governor, Mizoram
  • M. Srinivas Rao - CEO, National e-Governance Division (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology)
  • Mahathir Mohamad - Prime Minister, Malaysia (oldest PM in world)
  • Mia Mottley - 1st Female Prime Minister, Barbados
  • Mohit Chauhan - Green Ambassador, Sikkim
  • Mukul Rohatgi - Eminent Jurist, Selection Committee for Appointment of Lokpal
  • N. Baijendra Kumar - CMD, National Mineral Development Corporation
  • Nasirul Mulk - Interim Prime Minister, Pakistan
  • Nicolas Maduro - President, Venezuela
  • Nikol Pashinyan - Prime Minister, Armenia
  • Pankaj Saran - Deputy National Security Advisor
  • Pawan Kumar Agarwal - CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
  • Piyush Goyal - Finance Ministry (Additional charge, until Arun Jaitley is on rest due to health issues)
  • Pradeep Kumar Sinha - Cabinet Secretary
  • Pratibha Brahma - Vice Chairperson, Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd. (TRIFED)
  • Pravin Agarwal - Part Time Director, BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd)
  • R K Agrawal - President, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC)
  • Radhakrishnan Nair - Additional (Independent) Director, ICICI Bank’s board
  • Rajinder Singh - President, Hockey India (HI)
  • Rajyavardhan Rathore - Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)
  • Rakesh Kumar Gupta - Secretary, Union Public Service Commission
  • Rakesh Kumar Vats - Chairperson, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)
  • Ramalingam Sudhakar - Chief Justice, Manipur High Court
  • Ramesh Chand Meena - Chairperson, Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd. (TRIFED)
  • Ramesh Kumar - Assembly Speaker, Karnataka
  • Ranbir Singh - Commander, Northern wing of Indian Army
  • Saad Hariri - Prime Minister, Lebanon (3rd term)
  • Sabina Indrajit - Secretary General,Indian Journalists Union (IJU)
  • Sameer Sharma - Director General, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs
  • Sanjay Mitra - Chief, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
  • Sarah Mullally - 1st Female Bishop of London
  • Shashank Manohar - Independent Chairman, International Cricket Council (ICC)
  • Sitanshu Ranjan Kar - 27th Principal Spokesperson of Government of India
  • Sitanshu Ranjan Kar - Director General of Press Information Bureau
  • Sjoerd Marijne - Chief Coach, Indian Women’s Hockey Team
  • Stacey Cunningham - 1st woman President, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
  • Subhash Chandra Khuntia - Chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI)
  • Sudha Balakrishnan - 1st Chief Financial Officer, Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
  • Sukhdeep Sangwan - Director General of Assam Rifles (DGAR)
  • Sushil Chandra - Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes
  • Tapan Ray - Chairperson, Central Bank of India
  • Usha Sharma - Director General, Archaeological Survey of India
  • Uttam Pacharne - Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi
  • Vladimir Putin - President, Russia (4th term)
  • Yogendra Tripathi - CMD, Food Corporation of India
  • Yudhvir Singh Malik - Chairman, NHAI (National Highway Authority of India)

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