List of Appointments in 2017

Designation Person SEBI Chairman Ajay Tyagi chancellor of Nalanda University Dr Vijay Bhatkar CBI director Alok Verma Executive director Surekha Marandi UPSC chairman David R Syiemlieh New Air Force chief Birender Singh Dhanao Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal RBI Deputy Governor Viral V Acharya New chief of Research and Analysis Wing Anil Dhasmana New chief of Intelligence Bureau Rajiv Jain Chief Justice of Justice JS Khehar Director of CBI Rakesh Asthana New DGMO AK Bhatt Pakistan Army chief Qamar Bajwa Director of LBSNAA Upma Chowdhary Chairman of NALSA Jagdish Singh Khehar CR, MD & CEO of CERSAI Praveen Kumar New Executive Director M Rajeshwar Rao New Delhi Police Chief Amulya Kumar Patnaik President of Table Tennis Federation of India Dushyant Chautala New UN Secretary Antonio Guterres 44th Chief Justice of India Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar CEO Prasar Bhaarti Rajeev Singh Bharti AXA CEO Sanjeev Srinivasan Chairman of UPSC David R Syiemlieh Chief of Army Staff Bipin Rawat Executive Director of RBI Surekha Marandi Indian-origin Deputy Assistant to The Raj Shah President of and Deputy Communications and Research Director New President of European Parliament Antonio Tajani Distinguished Senior Fellow of Atlantic Manish Tewari Council UK’s Ambassador to European Union Tim Barrow New CBI Director(former Delhi Police Alok Kumar Verma BankExamsToday.com Page 1

List of Appointments in 2017

Commissioner) Director of Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo New Secretary of Department of Food and Preeti Sudan PDS Nominated Chairman of BoD of Tata Power S Padmanabhan Will head Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Raheel Sharif Terrorism(Former Pakistan Chief) New CEO of Flipkart Kalyan Krishnamurthy SBI Pension Funds MD and CEO Kumar Sharadindu New president of BMW Group India Vikram Pawah J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti’s brother inducted Mufti Tassaduq Hussain in PDP Chancellor of Nalanda University Dr. Vijay Bhatkar US envoy to United Nations Nikki Haley Appointed by UN as India Goodwill Ashok Amritraj Ambassador for SDGs(Sustainable Development Goals) President of Haiti Jovenel Moise First Non-Parsiand new chairman of TCS N Chandrasekaran New Governor of Tibet appointed by China Qi Zhala Chairman of African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat Karnataka Lokayukta P Vishwanath Shetty Head of BCCI Administration Panel(Former Vinod Rai CAG) New Chairman of Snap Inc. after resigning Michael Lynton from Sony Entertainment CEO Post Assam Governor who got additional charge of Banwarilal Purohit Meghalaya Chairman of Eastern India Regional Council of Siddhartha Murarka The Institute of Secretaries of India(ICSI) Appointed member of FIFA Finance Praful Patel Committee Group President and COO of Baidu, leading Dr. Qi Lu Chinese ISP HR Head for Capgemini for India operations Anil Jalali

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IBM India chairman Karan Bajwa New National Intelligence Director of US Dan Coats Chairman of OERC( Odisha Electricity UN Behera Regulatory mission) Pakistan’s first women foreign secretary to Tehmina Janjua UN US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson DGP of Karnataka Rupak Kumar Dutta Chairman and CEO of KMPG Arun M Kumar ED Director Karnal Singh President of Germany Frank Walter Steinmeier SEBI Chairman Ajay Tyagi New ASSOCHAM President Sandeep Jajodia First women IIM Director Dr. Neelu Rohmetra Ambassador of India to Philippines Narinder Chauhan LIC MD Hemant Bhargava Principle Economic Advisor in Finance Ministry Sanjeev Sanyal Director Commerical at NTPC Anand Kumar Gupta CEO and MD of NSE Vikram Limaye Top Indian reappointment to UN Joint Achamkulangare Gopinathan Inspection Unit Godrej Properties Chairman Pirojsha Godrej Chairman Emeritus position Adi Godrej Three whole time members in IBBI Suman Saxena,Mukulita Vijaywargiya, Navrang Saini

Designation Person Appointed DGP of Karnataka Rupak Kumar Dutta Chairman & CEO of KPMG India Arun M Kumar US secretary of state Rex Tillerson Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) Karnal Singh President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier Pakistan’s first woman foreign secretary to UN Tehmina Janjua Under Secretary General for UN’s peacekeeping France’s Jean-Pierre Lacroix operations

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Chief of Delhi & Districts Cricket Association Justice Vikramajit Sen (DDCA) High Commissioner of India to Canada Vikas Swarup US National Security Advisor Lt-Gen HR McMaster Chairman of Cauvery water Disputes Tribunal Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Vice Chairman of Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Abhijit Sarkar Chief Information Commissioner of J&K Khursheed A Ganai Spokesperson of MEA Gopal Baglay Brand Ambassador of Sight savers Kabir Bedi Director of SVP National Police Academy D R Dooley Barman (IPS officer) Chief Secretary of Maharashtra Sumit Mullick (IAS officer) Chairman of National commission for scheduled Nand Kumar Sai Tribes UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J Mohammed (Nigerian) Chairman of SEBI Ajay Tyagi India’s Ambassador to World Trade Organization J S Deepak Prime Minister of SUDAN Hassan Saleh Maharashtra’s Chief Commissioner of RTS Swadheen Kshatriya Chairman & MD of MTNL P K Purwar Secretary General of SAARC Amjad Hussain B Sial Chief Advisor to Odisha Government K Srinath Reddy NSE MD & CEO Vikram Limaye Members of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of Dr. Mukulita Vijayawargiya, Dr Navrang India (IBBI) Saini and Ms Suman Saxena MD, LIC Hemant Bhargava Union Mines Secretary Arun Kumar (IAS officer) Two new members to UPSC Ms. Sujata Mehta (IFS officer), Air Marshal Ajit S Bhonsle Deputy Director General (DDG), Narcotics Control Mohammed Taj Hassan (IPS Officer) Bureau Indian Ambassador to Manjeev Singh Puri (IFS Officer) Director (Finance), Power Finance Corporation Naveen Bhushan Gupta Additional charge of Dept of Telecommunication P K Pujari Secretary

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Designation Person Appointed President of European council Donald Tusk (Poland) Chairman of Central Water Commission Narendra Kumar Defence Minister Arun Jaitley Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High court Hemant Gupta Chief of centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services Seema Verma Chief Justice of Jharkhand High court P K Mohanty Chief Justice of Kerala High court Navniti Prasad Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High court T B Radhakrishnan Acting Chief Justice of J&K High court Ramalingam Sudhakar Director of National Intelligence, US Dan Coats US President’s National Security Advisor General HR McMaster Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai Manhar Valjibhai Zala Karamcharis Deputy Governor of RBI Bibhu Prasad Kanungo Chief Secretary of Punjab Karan Avtar Singh CM Trivendra Singh Rawat Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath Member (Traction), Railway Board Ghanshyam 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 SEBI Madhabi Puri Deputy speaker of Goa assembly Michael Lobo Director of AIIMS, New Delhi Dr.Randeep Guleria President of the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Vanita Gupta Rights Speaker of Punjab Legislative Assembly Rana Kanwar Pal Singh Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley Chief Justice of Madras High Court Indira Banerjee President of Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council Vishal Consul General of Dubai Vipul

Designation Person Appointed The country elected as president of UN-Habitat, an organ India

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List of Appointments in 2017 of UNO Chairman of Tea Board of India Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah Chairman of Indian Council of Social Science Research Braj Bihari (ICSSR) Chairman of Public Accounts Committee Mallikarjun Kharge Controller General of Accounts Anthony Lianzuala Director General of Central Reserve Police Force(CRPF) Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar Twitter’s Country Director for India Taranjeet Singh Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra Secretary of Department of Telecommunications Aruna Sundararajan WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis Amitabh Bachchan Chancellor of JNU V K Saraswat Deputy Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Ovais Sarmad Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Additional Charge of Environment Ministry Dr.Harshvardhan First African WHO Director -General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Vice-Chairman of National Commission for Minorities George Kurian Chairman of Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) Rajan Anandan President of Iran Hassan Rouhani Deputy chief of Air Marshal P N Pradhan Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee Justice Mukul Mudgal President of South Korea Moon Jae-in Member of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission( FERC), Neil Chatterjee USA President of France Emmanuel Macron Head of Allahabad Bank Usha AnanthaSubramanian Head of Syndicate Bank Melwyn Rego MD & CEO of Union Bank Rajkiran Rai G Head of Punjab National Bank Sunil Mehta MD & CEO of Bank of India Dinabandhu Mohapatra MD & CEO of Vijaya Bank R A Sankara Narayanan

Designation Person Appointed Secretary of CBSE Anurag Tripathy Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University Governor, Najma Heptulla

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Public Policy Fellow to a top US-based Think-Tank Nirupama Rao CEO of Prasar Bharati Shashi Shekar Vempati Judge in US Court of Appeals Amul Thapar Prime Minister of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba Registrar of Copyrights office Hoshiar Singh FBI Director Christopher Wray First Indian woman Member of ITLOS(International Neeru Chadha Tribunal for the Law of the Sea) Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Ajaib Singh Bhatti Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF Muzoon Akmellehan (Syrian) US Ambassador to India Kenneth I Juster Under Secretary General of UN Counter Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov office Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba President of International Economic Association Kaushik Basu President of India International Centre Narinder Nath DGP of Kerala Loknath Behra US Ambassador to Peru Krishna R Urs Secretary in I&B Ministry Narendra Kumar Sinha Attorney General of India KK Venugopal Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police RK Pachnanda Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti Director General of National Disaster Response Sanjay Kumar Force Chairman of IIT- Kharagpur Sanjiv Goenka WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Autism in South Saima Wazed Hossain Asia MD & CEO of National Stock Exchange(NSE) Vikram Limaye President of Serbia Aleksander Vucic First Turbaned judge in Canada Palbinder Kaur Economic Affairs Secretary Tapan Ray MD & CEO of IDFC Bank Sunil Kakar Part-Time chairman Lakshmi Vilas Bank B K Manjunath Executive Director of RBI S Ganesh Kumar

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Designation Person Appointed Chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification Prasoon Joshi Deputy Comptroller for minority affairs in New Dilip Chauhan York 45th Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak Misra Executive Director at World Bank Aparna, IAS Officer Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog Rajiv Kumar Air Officer-in-charge, Administration of Indian Air Air Marshal Hemant Narayan Bhagwat Force CMD of SIDBI Mohammad Mustafa Secretary General of FICCI Sanjaya Baru FBI Director Christopher Wray Chief of Lt Gen 14th President of India Ramnath Kovind Joint Secretary in PMO Gopal Baglay Secretary to New Indian President Sanjay Kothari Chairman of UK-India Business Council Lord Mervyn Davies Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang Additional charge as Information & Broadcasting Smriti Irani Minister Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Justice Vikramajit Sen Council (BCCC) WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Autism in South Saima Wazed Hossain Asia 13th Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu Non-Executive chairman of Union Bank Kewal Handa MD & CEO of Syndicate Bank Melwyn Rego New Head Coach of Indian Cricket Team Ravi Shastri MD & CEO of Oriental Bank Mukesh Kumar Jain Additional charge as Minister for Housing & Urban Narendra Tomar Affairs UK Supreme Court’s first female president Brenda Hale CEO of Janalakshmi Financial Services Ajay Kanwal CEO of Axis Bank Shikha Sharma

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RECENTLY APPOINTED BRAND AMBASSADORS

Person Brand Name Remarks Amitabh Bachchan City Compost Campaign A part of the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ John Abraham Arunachal Pradesh Tourism To promote tourism in Ambassador Arunachal Pradesh Incredible India Nawazuddin Siddiqui UP farmers’ scheme Samajwadi Kisan The scheme provides for Beema Yojna cashless treatment up to Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs. one lakh for the organ transplant. PV Sindhu Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sachin Tendulkar Anti- liquor and antidrug It will create awareness campaign of Kerala among people against alcoholism and drug abuse. Sakshi Malik Beti Bachao, Beti Padao campaign” in chosen to promote the Haryana tourism of Arunachal Pradesh Virat Kohli Punjab National Bank Vidya Balan Samajwadi Pension Yojna Launched by Uttar Pradesh Govt. Piruz Khambatta Make In India Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Shah Rukh Khan West Bengal Brand Ambassador The campaign started with shortlisting 200 places from all of the Indian states. Steffi Graf Kerala's Ayurveda to promote tourism and position the state of Kerala as home of ayurveda. Shilpa Reddy Confederation of Women Create centres of Entrepreneurs (COWE) excellence for women to gain knowledge, develop skills, provide infrastructure, access to

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resources to their business. Baba Ramdev Brand Ambassador of yoga and promote yoga and Ayurveda in Haryana Ayurveda in a big way Ankit Fadia Digital India It was launched on 1 July 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Amitabh Bachchan Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Amitabh Bachchan Pulse Polio To promote Polio Eradication Campaign Dia Mirza Swachh Saathi Swachh Bharat Mission’s youth-based Swachh Saathi (student internship) programme Madhuri Dixit MAA- Mother's Absolute Affection' Deepika Padukone Indian Psychiatric Society The largest association of Indian Psychiatrists

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