Appointments in 2015 (January to September)- Lists
Name of The Persons Posts/Departments
Arvind Panagariya First Vice Chairman of the newly-created National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog
A.K. Mittal Chairman of Railway Board
R K Srivastava Chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI)
Aziz Qureshi Governor of Mizoram
Pahlaj Nihalani -Chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
Sindhushree Khullar -First CEO of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog
AS Kiran Kumar -Secretary of the Dept of Space and also the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Dr Nazim Zaidi -Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India
Nitish Kumar- Chief Minister of Bihar
Sunil Sood -India CEO of the telecom giant
LC Goyal Secretary of India
Atul Khare UN Under Secretary-General for Field Support, Department of Field Support (DFS).
Amitava Roy Judge of the Supreme Court
Prof Kaptan Singh Solani Governor of Punjab
Maheshwar Sahu Independent Director on the board of Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL).
Divya Prakash Sinha Security Secretary in the Union Cabinet Secretariat.
Balasubramaniam Venkataramani- MD & CEO of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX)
Durga Prasad -Special Director General of Central Reserved Police Force (CRPF).
MO Garg -Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)
Kalyan Singh- Governor of Himachal Pradesh
Suvarna Raju T -Chairman of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar -30th Foreign Secretary of India
Ashton Carter -New US secretary of defence
Shekhar Sen- Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed -Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
Ravi Chaudhary Executive Director for Regions and Center Operations at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Dr. Nandita Chatterjee -Secretary in the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA).
Sergio Mattarella- Italian president
Ajaypal Singh Banga- Member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Arvind Kejriwal- Chief Minister of Delhi
Dhanurjay Patil -Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy
Dr Mylsamy Annadurai Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bengaluru
Tapan Misra- Chairman of ISRO’s Space Applications Centre (SAC)
Rashad Hussain- Special Envoy and Coordinator of Centre Strategic Counter-terrorism Communications
Ashwani Lohani -CMD of Air India Ltd
Punit Renjen- CEO of US-based accounting company Deloitte Global Operations
YC Modi -Additional Director in CBI
Takahiro Hachigo -President and CEO of Honda
Gopinath Pillai -Special envoy to Andhra Pradesh
Shamina Singh Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Rakesh Sahni -Chairman of Narmada Valley Development Authority
Arun Singh- Ambassador to United States
R M Vishakha -Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IndiaFirst Life Insurance.
Jagmohan Dalmiya Board for Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) president
R Seshasayee Executive Chairman of Infosys
MC Mary Kom Ambassador for north-east India
KV Chowdary- Central Vigilance Commissioner
Pawan Munjal -Chairman of HERO Motocorp
Abid Ali Neemuchwala Group President and Chief Operating Officer of Wipro
Baldev Sharma Chairman of National Book Trust
Meghalaya Governor V Shanmuganathan -Additional charge of Manipur
Vikas Swarup -Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry
Vivek Murthy US Surgeon General
Keshari Nath Tripathi 16th governor of Mizoram
Sumit Mazumder President of Confederation of Indian Industry
Vindo Rai -Independent Director of IDFC
Sunil Sabharwal -Alternate Executive Director at theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF)
Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, VVS Laxman Advisory Panel of BCCI
Kewal K Sharma Secretary of Delhi
Dr Nasim Zaidi -Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)
Ashu Suyash -MD & CEO of CRISIL
Vivek Priyadarshi Head a new investigating team to further investigate the IPL-6 spot-fixing and betting scandal
Ruth Porat Chief Financial Officer of Google Inc
Raja Rajeswari Criminal court judge in New York City
Gulshan Rai- India’s first Cyber Security Chief
Keerthi Kiran VP of realty projects division of Housing.com
Rajeev Shukla -Chairman of the highly influential Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
K Sivan -VSSC Chief
Arun Kumar Jha -Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
Dr Mohan Kumar- Ambassador to France
Steffi Graf Brand Ambassador of Kerala’s Ayurveda
Rishad Premji Wipro board
Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa -Arunachal Pradesh Governor
Sitaram Yechury -Fifth general secretary of CPM
Sanjay Gupta -Chairman of Engineers Ltd
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim First Woman President of Mauritius
Meena Hemachandra- Executive Director of RBI
Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa- IAF’s new Vice Chief
Rahul Dravid -Coach of India A and Under 19 Teams
Vijai Sharma -Chief information Commissioner
Lt Gen MMS Rai -Vice Chief of Army Staff
RC Tayal -Director General of National Security Guard
MK Sharma -Non-Executive Chairman of ICICI Bank
Nikhil Seth -Head of UNITAR
Dennis Muilenburg -CEO of Boeing
Anuj Mathur -CEO of Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance
Commodore CD Balaji- Chief of Aeronautical Development Establishment
Srivari Chandrasekhar -Director of CSIR-IICT
Nokesh Arora -Softbank President
Jack Dorsey -Twitter CEO
Anshula Kant -Deputy Managing Director and CFO of SBI
Zaheer Abbas -President of International Cricket Council
Satish Pillai -MD and CEO of CIBIL
Mukesh Khanna -Chairperson of Children Film Society of India
Matthias Mueller -Volkswagen’s CEO
Avishek Dalmiya -Joint Secretary of Cricket Association of Bengal
Dr Anup K Pujari- Secretary of MSME
Ashok Lahiri Chairman of Bandhan Bank
Mahesh Sharma Point -Person for Varanasi
Sriram Kalyanaraman -MD and CEO of National Housing Bank
Ajay Kumar Pandey- Head of Gujarat International Finance Tec-City
Jin Liqun Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) President
Prasanna Kumar Suryadevara- Secretary of Delhi Legislative Assembly
Lord Kamlesh Patel -First British-Asian appointee to ECB Director
Jennifer Lopez- UN Global Advocate for Girls and Women
Anurag Srivastava -CFO of Tata Tele Services
J Manjula -DRDO’s first Woman Director General
Sriram Kalyanaraman -MD and CEO of National Housing Bank
Panjkaj Munjal -CMD of Hero Motors Group
Prashant Pathrabe- Director of Film and Television Institute of India
Bhanu Pratap Sharma -Chairperson of FSSAI (Temporary in charge)
Sebastian Coe- World Athletics Chief
Ajay Mathur -Chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Sourav Ganguly- Cricket Association of Bengal President
Anand Krishnamurthy -MD and CEO of Catholic Syrian Bank
Gautam Bambawale- High commissioner to Pakistan (From Dec’ 15)
Professor Richard Hay and George Baker -Two Nominated persons to Lok Sabha
TK Chand- NALCO Chairman
Navtej Sarna -High commissioner to London
Roelant Oltmans- Coach of Hockey India
Ashish Bahugana- Chairperson of FSSAI
Sachin Tendulkar -Brand Ambassador of Oxigen
RS Sharma -Chairman of TRAI
S K Sharma -Chairman of Bhakra Beas Management Board
K Vijayaraghavan- Secretary of DSIR
West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi Additional Charge as Governor of Tripura
Jinesh Hedge -Airtel’s CEO of Operations in Sri Lanka
David Taylor – CEO of Procter & Gamble (P&G)
Swati Maliwal – Chairperson of DCW
Ananth Narayanan – CEO of Myntra
Lt Gen Man Mohan Singh Rai – Vice Chief of Army
Rahul Bhatnagar – MD and CFO of Bharti Enterprises
C Ramakrishnan – CFO of Tata Motors Limited
Rahul Agarwal – MD of Lenova India
Arun Goel – Chairman of Delhi Development of authority
Ram Kovind – Governor of Bihar
Acharya Vrat – Governor of Himachal Pradesh
Amitabh Bachchan – Maharashtra’s Tiger Ambassador
Sundar Pichai – Google’s CEO
Sudhakar Shetty -President of Gymnastics Federation of India
Om Prakash Rawat- Election Commissioner
Ajit Kumar Seth – Chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)
Lt General NPS Hira -Chief of Staff Northern Command
Karnal Singh- Chief of Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the period of three months.
Arvind Panagariya – New Sherpa for G-20 talks
Girish Sahni–Director General of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
Novak Djokovic –UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Vassiliki Thanou –Greece’s First Female Prime Minister
Justice ML Tahaliyani -Lokayukta of Maharashtra
Amol Palekar —Chairman of India’s Oscar Jury
Ranil Wickremesinghe —Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Rekha Menon– Chairperson of Accenture’s India Operations
Atul Keshap –US Ambassador to Maldives and Sri Lanka
Amitava Gosh Snapdeal’s Vice President – Engineering
Hormusji N Cama —Chairman of PTI
Hasmukh Adhia –Secretary in the Department of Revenue
Richie Richardson Inducted in ICC Referees Panel
Syed Akbaruddin— India’s permanent representative at the UN
CVRDE Director P Sivakumar– Elevated as distinguished scientist
Dilip Vengsarkar —-President of Association of Indian Statisticians
Sanjay Kumar Srivastava—- Secretary, Coordination and Public Grievances
Shaktikanta Das —Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs
Anjuly Chib Duggal— Secretary in the Department of Financial Services
Agriculture Expert Ramesh Chand —Full-time member of NITI Aayog
Stuti Narain Kacker —Head of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
Ajit M Sharan— Secretary of AYUSH
Amarendra Sinha —Secretary of the National Commission of Minorities
Raghav Chandra— Chairman of National Highways Authority of India
Yudhvir Singh Malik— Additional Secretary in Niti Aayog
Rajiv Yadav —Secretary in the Department of Sport
AK Jha —Interim Chairman and Managing Director of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)
Pakistan’s former hockey World Cup winning captain Shahbaz Ahmed —Secretary-general of the Pakistan Hockey Federation
Dr. S.A.V. Satya Murty— Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and Director of General Services Organisation (GSO) of the nuclear complex located at Kalpakkam
Rakesh Sharma —-Canara Bank’s MD and CEO
AI Rajwani —Gillette India’s Managing Director
Riyad Mathew– Vice Chairman of PTI
Zayn Khan – President of Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI)
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