Introduction
The List of New National and International appointments in 2019 from January to August. This article will helps GK/ Current Affairs Sections in all Upcoming Competitive Exams. This Chapter is also Useful for BANK PO, CLERK, SSC, and all GK Exams.
October
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Antonio Costa | Prime Minister of Portugal |
| Kishan Dan Dewal | Next Ambassador of India to Georgia |
| Kais Saied | Tunisia's next president |
| Joko Widodo | Indonesia's President |
| Upender Singh Rawat | Next ambassador of India to the Republic of Nicaragua |
| Phil Simmons | Head coach of West Indies men's cricket team |
| Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas | Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Cabo Verde |
| Alberto Fernandez | President of Argentina |
| Mokgweetsi Masisi | President of Botswana |
| Evo Morales | President of Bolivia |
| Sophie Wilmes | Prime minister of Belgium |
| Birender Singh Yadav | India's next Ambassador to Iraq |
| Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi | India's next High Commissioner to Samoa |
| Rafael Grossi | Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Jai Bhagwan Bhoria | New administrator for Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank |
| Surjit S Bhalla | Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
| KS Dhatwalia | Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) |
| Mallikarjuna Rao | MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank |
| Abhishek Singh | chief executive officer of MyGov India |
| P K Gupta | Chairman and MD of NBCC (National Buildings Construction Corporation) |
| Sushil Chandra Mishra | Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oil India Limited |
| Amur S Lakshminarayanan | Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Tata Communications |
| K Satish Reddy | President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) for 2019- 2021 |
| Anoop Kumar Mendiratta | Union Law Secretary (Secretary, Legal Affairs) |
| J.P.S. Chawla | Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure |
| Anup Kumar Singh | Director-General of the National Security Guard (NSG) |
| Sudhaker Shukla | Whole-Time Member, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) |
| Rajnish Kumar ( SBI's head) | Chairman of Indian Banks Association for fiscal 2019-20 |
| Sourav Ganguly | President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) |
| Pankaj Kumar | CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) |
| Sanjeev Nandan Sahai | New Power secretary |
| Braj Raj Sharma | Chairman of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) |
| Nagendra Nath Sinha | Secretary of the department of border management |
| Pramod Kumar Das | Minority affairs secretary |
| Alok Tandon | Secretary in the department of administrative reforms and public grievances |
| Tuhin Kanta Pandey | Secretary of Department of investment and public asset management (DIPAM) |
| Deepika Padukone and shuttler PV Sindhu | Ambassadors for 'Bharat Ki Laxmi', an initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
| Arvind Singh | Chairman of Airports Authority of India |
| Sukhbir Singh Sandhu | Chairman National Highways Authority of India |
| B Srinivas | MD National Horticulture Board |
| Ganji Kamala V Rao | Chairman & MD of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) Ltd |
| Vijayendra | Chairman & MD of National Small Industries Corporation Ltd |
| Pramod Kumar Tiwari | Director General of the Bureau of Indian Standards |
| Amit Yadav | DG, Directorate General of Foreign Trade |
| Manohar Lal Khattar | Chief Minister of Haryana ( second consecutive term) |
| Dushyant Chautala | Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana |
| Sharad Arvind Bobde | Next Chief Justice of India (47th CJI ) |
| P S Sreedharan Pillai | New Mizoram Governor |
| Satya Pal Malik | New Goa Governor |
| Girish Chandra Murmu | Lieutenant Governors of Jammu and Kashmir |
| Radha Krishna Mathur | Lieutenant Governors of Ladakh |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Kapil Dev | Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Cricket Advisory Committee |
| Saad Hariri | Lebanon Prime Minister |
September
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Oleksiy Honcharuk | Ukraine's new Prime minister |
| Jaideep Sarkar | Next High Commissioner of India to the Kingdom of Lesotho |
| B Bala Bhaskar | Next Indian Ambassador to Norway |
| Abhijit Guha (retired Indian lieutenant general) | head of the UN mission in Hodeida, Yemen |
| Alison Rose | CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland |
| Sebastian Coe | re-elected as president of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) |
| Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas | Next Ambassador of India to the Guinea Bissau |
| Kristalina Georgieva | New IMF chief |
| Suresh Chitturi | chairman of International Egg Commission |
| Rupa Gurunath | President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association |
| Air Marshal HS Arora | Vice Chief of Indian Air Force |
| Robert O’Brien | National Security Adviser of US |
| Adille Sumariwalla | Member of the International Association of Athletics Federations Counci |
| Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas | Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Guinea Bissau |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Tamilisai Soundararajan | Governor of Telangana |
| Arif Mohammed Khan | Governor of Kerala |
| Kalraj Mishra | Governor of Rajasthan |
| Bandaru Dattatreya | Governor of Himachal Pradesh |
| Bhagat Singh Koshyari | Governor of Maharashtra |
| Vivek Kumar Johri | Director General (DG) of Border Security Force (BSF) |
| Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane | Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCAS) |
| Lt Gen Anil Chouhan | Eastern Army Commander |
| Sunil Arora (Chief ElectionCommissioner) | Chairman of the Association of World Election Bodies (AWEB) for 2019-21 |
| Justice Harish Chandra Mishra | Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court |
| Vijay Kumar Chopra | Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI) |
| Vineet Jain | Press Trust of India (PTI)’s vice-chairman |
| Rajiv Kumar | Managing director of Microsoft India R&D |
| Justice Vikram Nath | Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court |
| Ranveer Singh | global brand ambassador of JBL |
| Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra | Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India |
| Hima Das | Brand ambassador for Gatorade (Sports drink of PepsiCo) |
| Kapil Dev | Chancellor of Haryana Sports University |
| Ambati Rayudu | Hyderabad Captain for Vijay Hazare Trophy |
| Justice P Lakshmana Reddy | First Lokayukta of Andhra Pradesh |
| RKS Bhadauria | Next Air Force Chief |
| Madhukar Kamath | Chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) |
| Shyam Srinivasan | Reappointed as Federal Bank CEO |
| Govinda (filmstar) | Brand Ambassador of Madhya Pradesh (to promote traditions and tourist places of the state) |
| Nilesh Shah (Kotak Mutual Fund’s MD) | Chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) |
| Saurabh Nanavati | Vice-Chairman of AMFI |
| Hon’ble Justice 1)V.Ramasubramanian. 2)Krishna Murari 3)Shripathi Ravindra Bhat 4)Hrishikesh Roy | Judges of Supreme Court of India |
| Justice Rajendra Menon | Chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal |
| Air Marshal B Suresh | Western Air Commander of Indian Air Force |
| Gopal Vittal | Bharti Airtel HR Head for India, South Asia |
| Pallavi Shardul Shrof | Independent woman director IN InterGlobe Aviation Limited operated IndiGo |
| Ajay Kumar Singh | Press Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind |
| Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra | Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India |
| Vineet Jain | Vice-Chairman of PTI(Press Test of India) |
| PK Sinha | Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) |
| Kim Ji-Hyun | National Women’s Badminton Coach of India |
| Wing Commander Anjali Singh | India’s First Female Military Diplomat |
| Samuel Joseph Jebaraj | IDBI Bank Deputy Managing Director (DMD) |
| Mahabaleshwara MS | Managing Committee of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) |
| Anshula Kant | SBI Managing Director |
| Krishna Mohan Prasad | First Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax of NeAC |
| PV Sindhu | brand ambassador of Visa |
| Madhuri Dixit | Goodwill ambassador for Maharashtra Assembly polls |
| Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat | New Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani | Chief Justice of Madras High Court |
| Jack Ma | Chairman of Alibaba |
| Takehiko Nakao | President of Asia Development Bank(January 16, 2020) |
August
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Noel Quinn | Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) interim Chairman |
| RumeshRatnayake | Sri Lanka’s Interim Cricket coach |
| Alejandro Giammattei | President of Guatemala |
| Ghotu Ram Meena | Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Congo |
| Russell Domingo | Head coach of Bangladesh Cricke |
| AbdallaHamdok | Sudan’s new Prime Minister |
| General Shavendra Silva | Commander of Sri Lankan Army |
| Lionel Aingimea | New President of Nauru |
| PavanKapoor | India’s Ambassador to the UAE |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Rajiv Kumar | Finance Secretary |
| AtanuChakraborty(Economic Affairs secretary) | Nominated on central board of RBI |
| RakeshAsthana( Director General of Security (Civil Aviation)) | Additional charge of Director General Narcotics Control Bureau |
| Siddhartha Mohanty | MD & CEO of LIC HFL |
| GuruprasadMohapatra | Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) |
| Ravi Capoor | Textiles Secretary |
| Rajesh Kumar Srivastava | New director (exploration) of ONGC |
| Sandeep Kumar Gupta | New director (finance) of IOC |
| KandikuppaSreekant | Power Grid Corporation of India Limited Chairman & Managing Director |
| ElangbamValentina Devi (9 year old girl) | Brand ambassador for the Chief Minister’s Green Manipur Mission |
| AnuragAdlakha | Chief financial officer (CFO) of YES Bank |
| ChandrimaShaha | president of National Science Academy (INSA) |
| P.T. Usha (Former Indian athlete) | Member of the Athletes Commission of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) |
| VG Somani | Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) |
| Manmohan Singh | Elected to the RajyaSabha from Rajasthan |
| MadhuDeora(CFO of Paytm) | Paytm President (consumer services business) |
| RavinderTakkar | CEO of Vodafone Idea |
| Dutee Chand | Brand ambassador for Puma |
| Ajay Kumar Bhalla | Union home secretary |
| Ajay Kumar | Defence Secretary |
| VikramRathour | Batting coach of India men’s cricket team |
| Ms.Padmaja | High Commissioner of India to the Cook Islands |
| Rajiv Gauba | Cabinet Secretary |
| AmitNayyar | Paytm president (financial services business) |
| PramodAgarwal | Chairman of Coal India |
| SitanshuKotak | head coaches of India A |
| ParasMhambrey | head coaches of India U-19 |
| AdityaPande | CFO of IndiGo ( from September 16) |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Giuseppe Conte | Italian Prime Minister |
| Suparna Singh | NDTV interim CEO |
| Parthasarathi Mukherjee | Lakshmi Vilas Bank MD&CEO |
| Rohit Philip | CFO of IndiGo |
| NripendraMisra | Principal Secretary to PM Modi |
July
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| KyriakosMitsotakis | Greece’s new prime minister |
| GitanasNauseda | President of Lithuania |
| Justice AK Sikri | Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) judge |
| Ursula von der Leyen | female president of European commission |
| Sanjeev Kumar Singla | India’s Ambassador to Israel |
| Upender Singh Rawat | India’s next Ambassador to Panama |
| VivekKohli | Chairman of Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation |
| Kiran More | Interim USA Cricket Coach |
| SarvitaSethi | Coca-Cola Vice-President (VP) for Merger and Acquisitions (M&A)for India & South West Asia |
| Boris Johnson | UK’s new Prime Minister |
| Ehsan Mani (Pakistan Cricket | Chairperson of the ICC Financial and Commercial Affairs Committ |
| Mark Esper | US Secratory of Defence |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| KarnamSekar | MD and CEO of IO |
| N.S. Vishwanathan | Reappointed as RBI deputy governor for one year |
| V K Tyagi | Chief Vigilance Officer of Punjab National Bank |
| P.K. Purwar | Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL |
| NalinShinghal | Chairman and Managing Director of BHEL |
| Manoj Kumar Nambiar | Chairman of Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) |
| B Harideesh Kumar | Director of Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) |
| A K Misra | Additional director on J&K Bank board |
| RajniSaraf | Chief financial officer (CFO) of Jammu and Kashmir Bank |
| Ashutosh Gupta | LinkedIn country manager for India |
| Rahul Dravid | Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy |
| ShaileshSadashivTinaikar | Force Commander of UN mission in South Sudan |
| M NageswarRao | Director general of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard |
| Arun Kumar | Chief of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) |
| Katrina Kaif | Brand ambassador of Reebok |
| Vikas Swarup | Secretary, Overseas Indian Affairs |
| Kalraj Mishra | Himachal Pradesh Governor |
| Acharya Devvrat | Governor of Gujarat |
| Anshula Kant | Managing director and chief financial officer (CFO) of the World Bank |
| Chandrakant Kavlekar | New Deputy CM of Goa |
| BiswaBhusan Harichandan | Governor of Andhra Pradesh |
| Anusuiya Uikey | Governor of Chhattisgarh |
| Anandiben Patel | Governor of Uttar Pradesh |
| ShriJagdeep Dhankhar | Governor of West Bengal |
| Ramesh Bais | Governor of Tripura |
| LalJi Tandon | Governor of Madhya Pradesh |
| Phagu Chauhan | Governor of Bihar |
| R. N. Ravi | Governor of Nagaland |
| Amita Prasad | Chairperson of Inland Waterways |
| Vivek Kumar | Private secretary to PM NarendraModi |
| Varun Dhawan | Reebok India brand ambassador |
| M.M. Naravane | Next Vice-Chief of Army Staff |
| Ajay Bhadoo | Joint Secretary to President |
| DejanPapic | India’s table tennis head coach |
| Sunil Kumar | Additional charge of chairman and managing director of the MTNL( Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited Director) |
| BS Yediyurappa | Karnataka CM |
| Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | Priti Patel (Indian Origin) |
| V.K. Johri | Director General (DG) of Border Security Force |
| Meenakshi Lekhi | Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee On Public Undertakings |
| Girish Bapat | Chairman of the Estimates Committee |
| Kirit Solanki | Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee for Welfare of SC/ST |
| Ganesh Singh | Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes |
| Siddhartha Sanyal | Bandhan Bank chief economist |
| Justice A.K. Sikri | Ombudsman and ethics officer of Indian Federation of Sports Gaming |
June
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Nursultan Nazarbayev | President of Kazakhstan |
| Gianni Infantino | President of the football governing body FIFA |
| Tijjani Muhammad-Bande | President of the United Nations General Assembly |
| Pramila Jayapal | Preside over the US House of Representatives. |
| Prayut Chan-o-cha | Prime Minister of Thailand |
| Shefali Juneja | India’s representative in the Council of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) |
| Shrimati C. Das | Director of Gurudev Tagore Indian Cultural Centre in Mexico. |
| Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | President , Kazakhstan |
| Qu Dongyu | UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) |
| Author Amish Tripathi | Director of London’s Nehru Centre |
| Narinder Batra | International Olympic Committee |
| Mette Frederiksen | Prime Minister – Denmark |
| Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | Mauritania’s presidential election. |
| Mrs. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa | Independent Director – Mindtree Ltd |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Mekathoti Sucharita | Home Minister of AP |
| R K Chibber | Interim chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) Bank |
| S S Chahar | Head of the Tekanpur based BSF Academy. |
| Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel | Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. |
| Justice Prashant Kumar | Acting Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court |
| N. Gopalaswami | Electoral ocer for the BCCI’s Annual General Meeting |
| Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala S and Narendra Singh | Ex-Ocio members of the think tank |
| Abidali Z. Neemuchwala | CEO and MD Wipro |
| Rakesh Makhija | Chairman of Axis Bank |
| VP Sivakolundhu | Speaker of the Puducherry Assembly |
| Shri Arjun Munda | Union Minister of Tribal Affairs |
| General V K Singh | Minister of State for RT & H |
| Kriti Sanon | UrbanClap brand ambassador |
| MLA Phosum Khimhun | Pro-tem speaker of the 7th Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Ajit Doval | Cabinet |
| Nayib Bukele | President of El Salvador |
| Anita Bhatia | Assistant Secretary-General |
| Namrata Menon | Goa’s brand ambassador |
| Rudratej Singh | President and CEO BMW Group India |
| Justice Ravi Shanker Jha | Acting Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh high court |
| Om Birla | Speaker of the Lok Sabha |
| Bhola Nath Shukla | Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Mahanadi Coalelds Ltd |
| Shikha Sharma and Khaitan & Co Partner Haigreve Khaitan | Tech Mahindra board as independent directors. |
| Laxman Narasimhan | CEO Reckitt Benckiser Group |
| Sinan Ozkok | Nissan, President of its Indian operations |
| Thawarchand Gehlot | Leader of Rajya Sabha |
| Prashant Kumar | Director of public policy, Ola |
| Sharad Kumar Saraf | Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) |
| Justice PK Saikia | Arunachal Pradesh’s Lokayukta Chief. |
| Amit Agarwal | Chairman of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) |
| Shankersinh Vaghela | State president of Nationalist Congress Party, NCP |
| PB Acharya | Governor of Manipur |
| Sarada Kumar Hota | MD of National Housing Bank |
| Arvind Kumar | Head of the Intelligence Bureau |
| Samant Kumar Goel | Chief of the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) |
| Krishnaswamy Natarajan | Director General of the Indian Coast Guard |
| Yerry Mina | Hero MotoCorp – Brand Ambassador. |
| Delphine Viguier-Hovasse | L’Oreal president |
| Barbara Chapman | CEO Summit Committee for APEC 2021 |
May
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Kumar Sangakkara | First non-British President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) |
| Tod Wolters ( US Air Force General) | NATO commander |
| Reza Baqir | State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor |
| Stevo Pendarovski | North Macedonian president |
| Laurentino Cortizo | Panama’s president |
| Rakesh Sharma ( Bajaj Auto Executive Director) | Vice-President of Geneva-based International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association (IMMA) |
| Jagjit Pavadia (India | International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) |
| Justice (Retd.) KS Radhakrishnan | Member of Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal |
| Dia Mirza and Jack Ma | New ‘SDG Advocates’ of UN |
| Muhammad-Bande ( Nigerian professor) | President of UN General Assembly |
| Former SC Justice MB Lokur | Supreme Court of Fiji for three years ( non-resident panel) |
| Cyril Ramaphosa | re-elected as President of South Africa |
| Jeffrey Rosen | United States’ next deputy attorney general |
| Joko Widodo | President of Indonesia |
| Peter Mutharika | President of Malawi |
| Suresh Kumar | chief technology officer of Walmart |
| Scott Morrison | Australia’s prime minister |
| James Marape | Papua New Guinea prime minister |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Jayshree Vyas | Bombay Stock Exchange first independent woman director |
| K. Kadiresan | South Zonal Manager of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) |
| Dragan Mihailovic | India’s head coach of Volleyball men’s team |
| Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma | first official brand ambassadors of Myntra |
| Krishnamurthy Subramanian( Chief Economic Advisor) | member of Advisory Council of 15th Finance Commission |
| Sunil Sharma | Archery Association of India (AAI) acting president |
| Sujatha V Kumar | Visa’s Head of Marketing for India and South Asia |
| Balvinder Singh Nakai | Iffco Chairman |
| Dileep Sanghani | Iffco Vice Chairman |
| Croatia’s Igor Stimac | Indian football team coach |
| Dinesh Pangtey | CEO of LIC Mutual Fund |
| Sanjiv Puri ( ITC Managing Director) | Chairman of ITC |
| Salman Khan | Brand Ambassador of BharatPe |
| Major General A K Dhingra | first Special Operations Division Commander |
| R. Gandhi | additional director on Yes Bank’s board |
| Justice A. K. Sikri | Chairperson of the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) |
| Nitin Chugh | MD and CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank( from December 1) |
| Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant | Brand ambassadors of Himalaya MEN |
| Jagan Mohan Reddy | CM of Andhra Pradesh |
| Naveen Patnaik | CM of Odisha |
| Akshay Kumar | Brand ambassador of TAFE |
| Lieutenant General Shailesh Tinaikar | commander of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) |
| Himanta Biswa Sarma | vice-president of Badminton Asia Council |
| Prem Singh Golay | Chief Minister of Sikkim |
| Justice DN Patel | Chief Justice of Delhi High Court |
| Pema Khandu | Arunachal Pradesh CM |
| Karambir Singh | New Navy Chief |
| Narendra Modi | Prime Minister of India |
| Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain | Flag Officer Commanding - in - Cheif of Eastern Naval Command |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Bhushan Patil | Paytm President |
| Theresa May | Prime Minister of U.K |
| Peter O’Neill | Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea |
April
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Lori Lightfoot | Chicago’s First Black Female Mayor |
| David Malpass | World Bank President |
| Praful Patel | Member of the FIFA Executive Council |
| Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa | Re-elected as President The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) |
| Manu Sawhney | CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC) |
| Nicholas Koumjian | Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar |
| Mohammed Ishtaye | Palestine Prime Minister |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel Prime Minister (5 Term) |
| Jean-Michel Lapin | Haiti’s new prime minister |
| Abdelkader Bensalah | Algeria’s interim president |
| Sanjay kumar (Indian) | Geospatial advisory committee |
| Jaideep Sarkar | India’s next High Commissioner to South Africa |
| Gagandeep Kang | First Indian woman to be elected Royal Society Fellow |
| Suhel Ajaz Khan | Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon |
| Ex-army chief Dalbir Singh Suhag | India high commissioner to Seychelles |
| Volodymyr Zelensky | Ukrainian president |
| Javier Perez-Tasso | CEO of SWIFT |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Air Marshal NS Dhillon | New Strategic Forces Command Chief |
| Satish Magar | President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) |
| Vipin Anand | Managing Director of LIC |
| Rakesh Malhotra | Next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Cameroon |
| Mayoori Kango (Former Bollywood actress) | Google India industry head |
| CS Rajan | Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) Managing Director |
| Vikram Kirloskar | President of the Confederation of Indian Industry |
| Keshav Murugesh | Chairman of Nasscom |
| UB Pravin Rao | Vice Chairman of Nasscom |
| Sana Dua ( Femina Miss India 2017 runner up) | Brand ambassador of Jammu and Kashmir for general polls |
| Justice Pradeep Nandrajog | New Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court |
| Vikramjit Singh Sahney | President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – India |
| Karnam Sekar ( MD and CEO of the Dena Bank) | MD and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank from July 1 |
| R A Sankara Narayanan | MD and CEO of Canara Bank |
| Vikram Nath | First chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court |
| Murali Kartik | Brand ambassador of Funtasy11 |
| Shiv Das Meena | Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) |
| Gargi Kaul | Secretary, Defence Finance |
| Najma Akhtar | Vice Chancellor of New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia |
| Actor Varun Dhawan | Brand Ambassador of Navratna Cool |
| R. Mohan | City Union Bank part-time chairman |
| Rajesh Yaduvanshi | Executive Director of Punjab National Bank |
| Padmaja Alaganandan | Chief people officer of PwC |
| Mithali Raj | Goodwill ambassador at the Street Child Cricket World Cup |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Brand ambassador of Redbus |
| Kaushik Shaparia | Deutsche Bank India CEO |
| Sairee Chahal | Paytm Payments Bank board of director |
| Manish Maheshwari | Managing Director of Twitter, India |
| Ravi Shastr | Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) Corporate Ambassador |
| Mini Ipe | First woman Zonal Manager of LIC |
| Dilip Kumar | Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the office of Lokpal |
| Mr. Isac Doru | New Technical Director of All India Football Federation |
| Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria | Vice Chief of Indian Air Force |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Abdelaziz Bouteflika | Algerian President |
| Rajan Anandhan | Google India head |
| Soumeylow Boubeye Maiga | Prime Minister of Mali |
| U K Varma | Assocham Secretary General |
March
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah | Re-elected as president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) |
| Kaja Kallas | First female Prime Minister of Estonia |
| Soumya Swaminathan | Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| Mohammad Shtayyeh | Palestinian Prime Minister |
| Zinedine Zidane | Re-appointed as the coach football club Real Madrid |
| Mohamed Moustahsane (head of African Boxing Confederation) | Interim President of AIBA |
| Former India hockey captain Sardar Singh | Athletes Standing Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) |
| Azali Assoumani | Comoros President |
| Zuzana Caputova | Slovakia’s first female president |
| Name | Desigation |
|---|---|
| Pranay Kumar Verma | Next Ambassador of India to Vietnam |
| Ravneet Gill | MD & CEO of YES Bank |
| Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar | New chief of Western Air Command (WAC) |
| Hasmukh Adhia | Non-executive chairman of Bank of Baroda |
| Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi | Next High Commissioner of India to New Zealand |
| Hemant Bhargava | Non-executive, Non-whole time chairman of IDBI Bank/td> |
| Ajay Narayan Jha | Member of the 15th Finance Commission |
| Bhagwan Lal Sahni | Chairman – National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) |
| Kaushalendra Singh Patel, Sudha Yadav and Achary Talloju | Members of NCBC |
| Sanjeev Ranjan | Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways |
| Anil Kumble | Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee |
| Ajit Kumar Mohanty | Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) |
| Dr. Ausaf Sayeed | Next ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia |
| Padma Lakshmi | UNDP’s newest Goodwill Ambassador |
| Jagdish Mukhi (Assam Governor) | Interim Governor of Mizoram |
| Subhash Chandra Garg | Finance Secretary |
| Ashu Khullar | CEO of CITI India ( from April 1) |
| Anup Kumar Dubey and Sushil Kumar | Special directors in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) |
| C. Lalsawta | Chairman of Lokayukta in Mizoram |
| Rakesh Makhija | Non-executive chairman of Axis Bank |
| Aditya Kumar Misra | Chairman – Agricultural Scientific Recruitment Board (ASRB) |
| M Ravi Kanth | CMD- Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) Ltd, (6 Month extension) |
| M R Kumar | Chairman of LIC |
| T C Suseel Kumar | Zonal Manager (in-charge), LIC South Central Zone |
| Vipin Anand | Zonal Manager (in-charge), LIC Western Zone |
| P S Narasimha | Mediator to BCCI |
| Anurag Bhushan | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Malaw |
| Padmaja | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Fiji |
| Santosh Jha | Ambassador of India to republic of Uzbekistan |
| KVS Manian and Gaurang Shah | Kotak Mahindra Bank board directors |
| Former SC Judge Justice PC Ghose | India’s first Lokpal |
| BJP leader Pramod Sawant | Chief Minister of Goa |
| Gauri Sawant | First transgender election ambassador |
| Shailendra Handa | ECI – Special Expenditure Observers for Maharashtra |
| Madhu Mahajan | ECI – Special Expenditure Observers for Tamil Nadu |
| Chacko Purackal Thomas | Tata Coffee MD and CEO |
| Benedict Cumberbatch | Brand ambassador of MG Motor India |
| Tim Stone | CFO of Ford |
| Vice Admiral Karambir Singh | Next Chief of Naval Staf |
| Aamir Khan | PhonePe’s Brand Ambassador |
| Sudarshan Ballal | The healthcare industry’s apex body NATHEALTH president |
| K. Govindaraj | Re-elected as president of the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) |
| Chander Mukhi Sharma | Re-elected secretary-general as the BFI |
| N S Srinath | Non-executive chairman of Karur Vysya Bank |
| Veselin Matic | Head coach of the Indian men’s basketball team |
| Justice DK Jain | BCCI’s Ethics Officer |
| Goa Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar | Deputy CM of Goa |
| Shri Abhay Thakur | Ambassador of India to Republic of Benin |
| Cricketer Virender Sehwag | Brand Ambassador of PolicyX.com |
| Vice Admiral MA Hampiholi | Director General Naval Operations (DGNO) |
| Vijay Chandok | MD and CEO of ICICI Securities |
| Name | Desigation |
|---|---|
| Naresh Goyal | Jet Airways Chairman |
| Kummanam Rajasekharan | Governor of Mizoram |
| Juha Sipila | Finland Prime Minister |
| Rahul Bajaj | Bajaj Finserv chairman |
| Nursultan Nazarbayev | Kazakhstan President |
| Gafur Rahimov | AIBA President |
February
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Sanjiv Ranjan | India’s Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia |
| Nilambar Acharya | Nepal’s ambassador to India |
| Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Siss | Chairman of the African Union |
| Ricky Ponting | Assistant coach of Australia’s men’s cricket team |
| Saudi Arabia’s Reema bint Bandar | First female ambassador to the United States |
| Indra Nooyi | Amazon board of directors |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Lt Gen Rajeev Chopra | Director General of NCC (DGNCC) |
| Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar P | Western Naval Command Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief |
| Ajai Kumar | Interim MD-CEO of YES bank |
| Rishi Kumar Shukla | CBI director |
| Pradeep Singh Kharola | Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation |
| Rahul Jain | General Manager of Integral Coach Factory (ICF) |
| Shri Sailesh | Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs |
| Ruchira Kamboj | Ambassador of India to Bhutan |
| Salil Gupte | Boeing India President |
| DIPP secretary Ramesh Abhishek | Secretary, Civil Aviation Ministry |
| India’s boxing chief Ajay Singh | President of the Foundation Board for Better Boxing of AIBA |
| Justice DK Jain | First Ombudsman for BCCI |
| Tarun Sridhar (Secretary of Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying | Secretary, Department of Fisheries |
| Sushil Chandra | Election Commissioner |
| SN Ghormade | Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command |
| Ashwani Lohani | Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India |
| Derrick Pereira | Head coach of the Indian Under-23 football team |
| Pramod Chandra Mody | Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) |
| Sandeep Mohan Bhatnagar and Ashok Kumar Pandey | CBIC members |
| Anirban Mukherjee | PayU India CEO |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Mohammad Javad Zarif | Iranian Foreign Minister |
| Harshil Mehta | Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) CEO |
January
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| JairBolsonaro | Brazil President |
| David Norquist | US deputy defence secretary |
| Justice AsifSaeed Khan Khosa | Chief Justice of Pakistan |
| ShriPranav R Mehta | Global Solar Council |
| Nicolas Maduro | Venezuelan President |
| Su Tseng-chang | Prime Minister of Taiwan |
| Manu Sawhney | ICC CEO |
| AndryRajoelina | President of Madagascar |
| Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah | Malaysia’s new king |
| PoonamKhetrapal Singh | Director of World Health Organization South-East Asia |
| SunjaySudhir | India’s Ambassador to Maldives |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Pramode Kumar Singh | Competition Commission of India Secratary |
| V K Yadav | Chairman, Railway Board |
| Justice AK Sikri | The Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) |
| Saurabh Kumar took | Chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board |
| HemantBhargava | Interim Chairman of LIC |
| Pankaj Sharma | RBL Bank Chief Operations Officer |
| Justice T B N Radhakrishnan | First Chief justice of Telangana High Court |
| VikramMisri | India’s new envoy to China |
| Kumar Rajesh Chandra | Director General of the SashastraSeemaBal (SSB |
| Birendra Prasad Baishya | Chef de Mission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics |
| Ajit Mohan | Managing Director and Vice President, Facebook India |
| BrahmDutt | Yes Bank non-executive part time chairman |
| Daniel Hughes Callahan | Additional and Independent Director of TCS |
| Mohammed Ali Qamar | Women’s Boxing Team Coach |
| B Sriram and Rama Bijapurkar | ICICI Bank independent director |
| Agyey Kumar Azad | Executive Director of Punjab National Bank |
| PiyushGoyal | Interim Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister |
| Ravneet Gill | MD and CEO of Yes Bank |
| RonojoyDutta | IndiGo CEO |
| Parthasarathi Mukherjee | Lakshmi Vilas Bank MD and CEO (Reappoint) |
| Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar | Vice Chief of Navy Staff (VCNS) |
| DilipSadarangani | part time Chairman of Federal Bank |
| Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv NayanChoubey | Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) |
| Name | Designation |
|---|---|
| Madan B Lokur | Supreme Court judge (retired) |
| Kevin Sweeney | US Department of Defence chief of staf |
| Jim Yong Kim | World Bank President (from 1 February,2019) |
| Harendra Singh | Indian men’s hockey coach |
| Ashok Chawla | Chairman of the National Stock Exchange of India |
| Stephen Constantine | Indian football team’s head coach |
| BK Divakara | Executive Director (ED) of Central Bank of India |