List of Appointments 2018

LIST OF APPOINTMENTS IN 2018

JANUARY 2018

Name of the Person Designation

IAS officer N C Goel Chief Secretary of Rajasthan
Vijay Keshav Gokhale Foreign 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 Khanna Deputy 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 Singh Chef De Mission for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games
Sunny Verghese Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development.
Indu Malhotra, a senior advocate First woman lawyer as judge of the apex court
V J Mathew Chairman of Maritime Board
Anil Khanna Chairman of the Finance Commission of the Indian Olympic
Association
Vijay Kumar Managing Director and CEO NCDEX
S Selvakumar Additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD)
of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd
(SPMCIL
Former Gujarat chief minister New Governor of Madhya Pradesh
Anandiben Patel
Om Prakash Rawat Chief Election Commissioner
Ashok Lavasa Election 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

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Shri Srikumar Menon Ambassador 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 The first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
CEO of Allahabad Bank
Milos Zeman Second five-year, Czech Republic’s pro-Russia president
Vikram Singh Sisodia Chef-de-Mission for the upcoming Commonwealth Games

FEBRUARY 2018

Name of the Person Designation/Appointed As

Neelam Kapur Director general (DG) of Sports Authority of India (SAI)
Lt. Gen Anil Chauhan Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of the
Indian Army
John Hennessy Chairman of Alphabet
Nicos Anastasiades President of the Republic of Cyprus.
Syed Mahmud Hossain Chief Justice of Bangladesh
Dinesh Srivastava Chief Executive of Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC)
Jerome Powell 16th chairman of the Federal Reserve,
Hardayal Prasad SBI Card MD & CEO
Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of First independent female director of the International
PepsiCo Cricket Council (ICC) Board
Biswamohan Mahapatra Non-executive chairman of National Payments
Corporation of India
Chandrashekhara Kambara, Eminent President of Kendra Sahitya Akademi.
Kannada writer and Jnanpith winner
Haruhiko Kuroda Governor of Bank of Japan
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli 41st Prime Minister of Nepal.
Vice Admiral R B Pandit, Commandant of Indian Naval Academy
Arvind Jamkhedhar Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research
(ICHR).
Debashish Mukherjee Executive directors of Canara Bank
Murali Ramaswami Executive directors of Vijaya Bank
Ranil Wickremesinghe Ministerial post of law and order ministry
Michael McCormack New Deputy Prime Minister
Nhlanhla Nene Finance Minister of south Africa
Samina Baig , a Pakistani woman National goodwill ambassador by the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP)

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MARCH 2018

Name of the Person Designation/Appointed As

A K Pradhan Group Chief Risk Officer of Punjab national bank
Senior IAS officer Sudhir Chief Secretary of Jharkhand
Tripathy
R Subrahmanyam New Secretary, Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource
Development.
Vinay Kumar appointed India’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 Raghavan Director & 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 Gupta As Nominee Director on SBI Life
Neiphiu Rio Chief minister of Nagaland
Biplab Kumar Deb Chief minister of Tripura governmnet
Sandeep Bakhshi 2-yr extension as MD of ICICI Prudential Life insurance
Vivek Wadekar New Special Director in Enforcement Directorate
Sanjeev Gupta UK Skills Ambassador
Prakriti Combat Officer In The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force
Virat Kohli Brand ambassador of Uber
Head of the Press Information Bureau (PIB)
Sitanshu Kar
Suresh Prabhu Additional charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry
Bidya Devi Bhandari Re-elected as President of Nepal
Angela Merkel 4th Term As German Chancellor
Gina Haspel Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s First Female Director
Sangeeta Bahadur Ambassador Of India To Belarus
Larry Kudlow Trump’s New Economic Adviser
Yi Gang as new Central bank governor of china
Vladimir Putin Fourth term as Russian President
Li Keqiang Re-elected as Prime Minister of China for second term
Satya Pal Malik Additional Charge as Governor of Odisha

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Shri Atul M. Gotsurve, Ambassador of India to Korea

Nanda Bahadur Pun Nepal’s New Vice President:
John Bolton New National Security Adviser to Trump
Martin Vizcarra As Peru’s New President
Balesh Sharma CEO Of Vodafone-Idea India Merged Entity
JS Rajput Nomination to the UNESCO Executive Board
Win Myint New Myanmar President
Justice Jawad Rahim Acting Chairperson of NGT
Indu Bhushan Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Centre’s ambitious Ayushman
Bharat National Health Protection Mission (ABNHPM).
Vijay Raghavan Principal Scientific Advisor To Government of India
TV Journalist Rahul Rajya Sabha TV Editor-In-Chief
Mahajan
China Vice President of FATF
Michael McCormack Australia’s New Deputy Prime Minister
Conrad Sangma CM Of Meghalaya
Justice Khanwilkar Head of Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal
Rosemary DiCarlo First female UN political chief

APRIL 2018

Name of the Person Designation/Appointed As

Uday Kotak Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kotak Mahindra
Bank
Gauri Sheoran, international brand ambassador for measles-rubella (MR) vaccination campaign
shooter under Haryana government
Christine Schraner Burgener of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed her as his
Switzerland. new special envoy on Myanmar.
CIA Chief Mike Pompeo New US Secretary Of State
Indu Malhotra, 1st Woman SC Judge
Lawyer
Mario Abdo Benitez President of Paraguay
Dilip Chenoy Secretary-General of industry body Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
Jim Bridenstine, a congressman 13th administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
from Oklahoma Administration (NASA)
Lieutenant General PP Malhotra Director General of National Cadet Corps (NCC)
Actor Rituparna Sengupta Shilpi Sansad chairperson

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Rishad Premji Chairman of NASSCOM

Sanjeev Nautiyal New Managing Director and CEO of SBI Life Insurance
Himanta Biswa Sarma President of the Badminton Association of India (BAI)
Vineet Joshi Director General (D-G) of the National Testing Agency (NTA)
M L Srivastava Protem chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi
T K Rajalakshmi President of the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC)
Bhanu Pratap Sharma Chairman of Bank Board Bureau (BBB)
Debjani Ghosh New president of Nasscom.
KR Nautiyal Coast Guard Commander (East)
Julius Maada Bio Sierra Leone’s President
Rakesh Kumar Vats chairman of NPPA (National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority)
Himanta Biswa Sarma President of Badminton Association of India (BAI
American diplomat Rosemary First woman to head UN political affairs,
DiCarlo
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth Deputy Collector in the Andhra Pradesh State Government.

JUNE 2018

Name of the Person Designation

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 Additional Charge As Tripura Governor
Tripathi
Former NIA (National Investigation Vigilance Commissioner In CVC (Central Vigilance
Agency) chief Sharad Kumar Commission)
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance CEO whole-time director and chief operating officer (COO)
Sandeep Bakhshi
Ivan Duque Colombia's President also he is Colombia's youngest ever
President.
Former World Bank Economist Omar Jordan PM. he succeeded Hani al-Mulki
Al-Razzaz
Dr. Inder Jit Singh As Secretary, Ministry Of Coal

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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 Resigned and appointment as chief executive of IDBI Bank,
Bikaner and Jaipur B Sriram replaced Mahesh Kumar Jain
Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Resigned
Nasser Khan Janjua
World's Most Experienced Retires As Astronaut
Spacewoman Peggy Whitson
The Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) of resigned
India, Arvind Subramanian
Jammu & Kashmir CM Mehbooba Resigned
Mufti

JULY 2018

Name of the Person Designation/Appointed As

Janardan Singh Gehlot President of International Kabaddi Federation
Saraswati Prasad Chairman and managing director of Steel Authority of India Limited
(SAIL).
Uttam Dhillon Head Of Drug Enforcement Agency In US
Vishwas Patel Chairman of Payments Council Of India Appoints
Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT)
Sandeep Sancheti 97th President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU)
T Latha MD & CEO Of Dhanlaxmi Bank
TCA Raghavan Director-General Of Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)
TV Narendran Chairman of Bhushan Steel
Kaptan Singh Solanki, Additional charge of Himachal Pradesh Governor
Haryana Governor
Brij Bhushan Saran Singh Named the Chef de Mission of the Asian Games-bound Indian
contingent. He is president of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)
Rishi Srivastava CEO And MD of Tata AIA
Justice Tahira Safdar First-ever woman Chief Justice of Pakistan
P K Shrivastava Director General Of Ordnance Factory Board
Renu Satti Resigned from the post of Paytm Payments Bank CEO, and will now
head Paytm's new retail initiative.

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Vijay Srinivas Director & GM Of United India Insurance Company

Surendra Rosha HSBC India CEO
Andres Manuel Lopez Mexico's President
Obrador
Jeremy Hunt New UK Foreign Secretary
David Davis Brexit Secretary, resigned
Tushar Arothe India Women's Cricket Coach, Resigned
Indian Cricketer Mohammad Retired from all forms of competitive cricket
Kaif

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