Dear Aspirants, Here we provide all New List of Important Appointments in 2020 for every month of 2020 in detail. Here we are providing The List of New Appointments in 2020. An appointment is the most important part of General Awareness from which one to two questions must occur in every competitive examination like Railway, SSC, Banking, state PSU, etc. Important Appointments list includes the Appointment of the head of different Organizations/companies, Banks, Brandambasoder, President, Prime Minister, Governor & Chief Minister, etc.
List of Appointments of 2020 are:-
December 2020 Appointments
Name of Person | Designation |
Akshay Kumar | Brand Ambassador for Horlicks Protein Plus |
Amitabh Jain | Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh Government |
Anil Soni | First CEO of The WHO Foundation |
Annika Sorenstam | President of the International Golf Federation. She Succeded Peter Dawson |
AR Rahman | Ambassador of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in India |
Dr Harsh Vardhan | Board Member of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) |
Florin Citu | Prime Minister of Romania |
Justice Rajesh Bindal | Chief Justice of the common High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and UT of Ladakh |
Kuldeep Handoo | Ambassador of “Fit India” movement |
Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhary | Director-General of Border Roads Organisation (BRO). Succeeds Lt Gen Harpal Singh |
Neetal Narang | First Female President of Softball Federation of India (SFI) |
Prasanth Prabhakaran | MD and CEO of Yes Securities (India) Limited |
Sandeep Kataria | Global CEO of Bata Shoe |
Satyendra Garg | DGP of Andaman and Nicobar |
Shashi Shekhar Vempati | Vice President of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) |
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah | Prime Minister of Kuwait |
Shrikant Madhav Vaidya | Vice President of World Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (WLPGA) |
Sourav Ganguly | Brand Ambassador for Class plus |
Suresh Chandra Mohapatra | Chief Secretary of Odisha |
Uday Kotak | MD of Kotak Mahindra Bank |
Uday Shankar | President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) |
Utpal Kumar Singh | Secretary-General of Lok Sabha. He will succeed incumbent Snehlata Shrivastava |
Varsha Joshi | Chairperson of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) . Succeed Dilip Rath |
Vineet Agarwal | President of ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) |
Zena Wooldridge | World Squash Federation President (10th). She replaces outgoing President Jacques Fontaine, from France |
November 2020 Appointments
Name of Person | Designation |
AK Gupta | MD and CEO of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) |
Akshay Kumar Singh | MD and CEO of Petronet LNG Ltd |
Alassane Ouattara | President of Ivory Coast |
Arun Goel | Head the committee set up by GOI to strengthen Capital Goods Sector |
Chacha Chaudhary | Brand Ambassador for Namami Gange Project |
Dilip Rath | Board of International Dairy Federation (IDF) |
Duarte Pacheco | 30th President of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) |
Greg Barclay (New Zealand) | Chairman of International Cricket Council (ICC) succeeds India’s Shashank Manohar |
Gyanendro Ningombam | President of Hockey India(Manipur’s) |
John Magufuli | President of Tanzania |
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. | President of the United States(46th) |
Kamala Harris | Vice President of the United States |
Lt Gen. Harpal Singh | New Engineer in Chief of Indian Army |
M.M. Kutty | chairperson of Commission for Air Quality Management(CAQM) |
Maia Sandu | First Women President of Moldova |
Major Gen. Rajeev Chaudhary | DG of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) |
Michael Holding | Patron of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Foundation |
Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad | Senior Vice President of Hockey India |
Navneet Munot | MD and CEO of HDFC Mutual Funds |
Nitish Kumar | Chief Minister of Bihar(7th term) |
Piercristiano Brazzale | President of International Dairy Federation (IDF) |
Priyanca Radhakrishnan | Indian origin minister of New Zealand |
PVG Menon | CEO of Electronics Sector Skill Council of India(ESSCI) |
Rajiv Jalota | Chairman of Mumbai Port Trust |
Raj Kumar Rao | Brand Ambassador for Syska Group |
Rohit Sharma | Brand Ambassador for Financepeer |
Sanjay Kumar Mishra | Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) |
Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan | First Chairperson of the ‘Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)’ |
Smriti Mandhana | Brand Ambassador for Equitas Small Finance Bank (ESFB) |
Vidisha Maitra | UN advisory committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions |
VK Saraswat | Head the committee formed by NITI Aayog |
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha | Chief Information Commissioner of Central Information Commission |
October 2020 Important Appointments
Name of Person | Designation |
Ajay Kumar Bhalla | Home Secretary (Extended up to August 22, 2021 ) |
Ajinkya Rahane | Brand ambassador and advisor of Hudle |
Alpha Conde | President of Guinea |
Amar Bahl | Deputy Managing Director & COO of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited |
Amit Banerjee | Director (Rail and Metro Business) and Member on the Board of BEML Limited |
Amitabh Bachchan | Brand ambassador of Cello Group |
Apurva Chandra | Secretary of Ministry of Labour & Employment |
Arvind Hali | MD & CEO of Motilal Oswal Home Finance |
Ashima Goyal, Jayanth R Verma and Shashank Bhide | Monetary Policy Committee |
Bhuvan Bam | first Digital brand ambassador of Myntra |
Bimal Julka | Chairman of Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports |
Bishr Al Khasawneh | 13th premier of Jordan |
Chaitanya Venkateswaran | British High Commissioner of India |
Charanjit Surinder Singh Attra | Chief Financial Officer(CFO) of SBI |
Chetan Anand | Brand Ambassador of India’s first-ever badminton brand ‘Transform’ |
Constantina Dita | Ambassador of World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020 |
Devyani Uttam Khobragade | India’s next ambassador to Cambodia |
Dinesh Kumar Khara | Chairman of State Bank of India |
Dinesh Kumar Khara | Deputy Chairman, Indian Banks’ Association |
Dr Neena Malhotra | Ambassador of India to the Republic of San Marino |
Ghanshyam Jha | Chairperson of Jammu and Kashmir Water Resources Regulatory Authority |
Gurdeep Singh | CMD of NTPC Ltd |
Wavel Ramkalawan(Indian origin) | Seychelles President |
J Venkatramu | MD & CEO of India Post Payments Bank |
Jacinda Ardern | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
Justice BL Bhat | Acting Chairperson of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal |
Lewis Hamilton | Global ambassador of LG Electronics |
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora | President of Bolivia Carlos Mesa |
M A Ganapathy | Director General of BCAS |
M Rajeshwar Rao | Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India(RBI) |
Madhabi Puri Buch | Whole Time Member of Securities and Exchange Board of India |
Madhu Mahajan &B. R Balakrishnan | Special Expenditure Observers for General Election |
Michael Irani | President of International Weightlifting Federation |
Myktybek Abdyldaev | Speaker of the parliament of Kyrgyzstan |
Nanda Kishore Sahoo | Director General of Dental Services and Colonel Commandant of Army Dental Corps |
Neena Malhotra | Ambassador to Republic of San Marino |
Nilesh Shah | Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in India |
Nilesh Shah | MD of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management |
Piyush Goyal | Additional charge of the Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ministry |
Pradeep Kumar Rawat | Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Netherlands |
Priyanka Chopra Jonas | Brand ambassador of Parle Agro’s B Fizz |
Purnachandra Rao Surapaneni | National President of Indo American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) |
R. Balasubramaniam (Founder and chairman of GRAAM, Mysuru) | Technical Group on Social Stock Exchange, SEBI |
Rahul Parikh | Digital Head of Bandhan Bank |
Rajendra Prasad Goyal | Chief Financial Officer of NHPC |
Rajkiran Rai | Chief Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). |
Rakesh Asthana | MD & CEO of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited |
Rana Daggubati | Brand ambassador of Ubon(Gadget accessory and consumer electronics brand) |
RJ Duckworth | Air Officer in charge Personnel |
RK Chhibber | Chairman & MD of Jammu & Kashmir bank (Extended for 6 months) |
Rohan Jaitley | President of Delhi and District Cricket Association |
Rohit Sharma | Brand Ambassador Beauty accessories brand, ‘Vega Men’ brand |
S Aparna | Secretary in the Department of Pharmaceuticals Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
S S Deswal | Additional charge of National Security Guard DG |
Saad al-Hariri | Prime Minister of Lebanon (Reappointed) |
Sadyr Zhaparov | Acting PM of Kyrgyzstan |
Saman Habib | Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi |
Sashidhar Jagdishan | MD & CEO of HDFC Bank board |
Saurabh Nanavati | Vice chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in India |
Sourav Ganguly | Brand ambassador of Bengal Peerless Housing |
Srikant Datar | Dean of Harvard Business School |
Subhash Kelkar | Chief Technology and Digital Officer of ICICI Securities |
Sushil Kumar Singhal | High Commissioner of India/ Ambassador to the Solomon Islands |
Uma Shankar | Additional Director (non-executive, independent) of Karnataka Bank |
Vishal V Sharma | Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO |
Wavel Ramkalawan | President of Seychelles |
Yoo Myunghee (South Korea’s)& OkonjoIweala(Nigeria’s) |
Nominated Next attorney general of World Trade Organisation |
September 2020 Important Appointments
Name of Person | Designation |
Aamir Khan | Brand ambassador of Vedantu |
Aamir Khan | Brand ambassador of Ceat Tyres |
AK Dixit | New administrator of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank |
Alexander Lukashenko | President of Belarus (6th term) |
Amitabh Bachchan | Alexa voice assistant of Amazon.com |
Amitabh Bachchan | Brand ambassador, Reserve Bank For the customer awareness campaign |
Anil Dhasmana | Chief of National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) |
Anil Dhupar | Secretary-general of All India Tennis Association |
Anil Jain | President of All India Tennis Association |
Apurva Chandra | Secretary of Ministry of Labour and Employment |
Arun Srinivas | Director of Global Business Group of Face book |
Aveek Sarkar | Chairman of Press Trust of India |
Aveek Sarkar | Chairman of Press Trust of India. He succeeds Vijay Kumar Chopra |
Ayushmann Khurrana | Brand ambassador of Bajaj Allianz Life |
Ayushmann Khurrana | Celebrity advocate for children’s rights campaign – ’For Every Child’ UNICEF India |
Bah Ndaw | Interim President of Mali |
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Smriti Mandhana | Brand ambassadors of Playerzpot , sports gaming app |
Charu Sinha | First woman commander Head the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) formation in the Kashmir Valley |
Disha Patani | Ambassador of Myntra for Beauty Segment |
Dr Neena Malhotra | Ambassador of India to Italy |
Dwayne Bravo | Brand ambassador for “SBOTOP”, sportsbook brand |
Harivansh | Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha.Replace Manoj Kumar Jha |
Hemant Khatri | CMD of Hindustan Shipyard Limited |
Ishmael Toroama | President of Bougainville |
Jane Fraser | 1st female CEO of Citigroup |
Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman | Chairperson of SC legal services committee |
K Padmakar | CMD of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd |
Kenichi Ayukawa | President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) |
Khushi Chindaliya | From Regional Ambassador for India By the United Nations Environment |
Kiara Advani | Brand Ambassador For Myntra |
L C Goyal | CMD of India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) |
M V Raja Sekhar | Director (R&D) of Bharat Electronics |
M Veeralakshmi | 1st woman ambulance driver in Tamil Nadu govt. |
Manisha Kapoor | Secretary-General of Advertising Standards Council of India |
Manoj Kumar | Executive Director of International Finance Services Centres Authority (IFSCA – regulates GIFT City) |
Matthew Hayden& Lisa Singh | Trade envoys to India Australian government |
Moctar Ouane | Prime Minister of Mali |
Mohamed Hussein Roble | Prime Minister of Somalia |
Murali Ramakrishnan | MD & CEO of South Indian Bank. Replaced V G Mathew |
Mustapha Adib | Prime Minister of Lebanon |
Narendra Singh Tomar | An additional charge of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. succeeds Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Narendra Singh Tomar | Additional charge of FPI Ministry |
Neetu David | Chairman of Women’s selection committee. succeeds Hemalata Kala |
Paresh Rawal | Chairman of National School of Drama |
Pramod Chandra Mody | Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), gets six-month extension |
Preeti Sudan | One of its 11 panelists of World Health Organisation’s independent panel for pandemic preparedness |
R. Masakui | High Commissioner of India to Jamaika |
Raj Kumar Srivastava | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Croatia. |
Robin Uthappa | Brand ambassador of Entri |
Rajat Sud | MD of Energy Efficiency Services Ltd .SS Gopal |
Rajesh Khullar | Executive Director of the World Bank |
Rajiv Kumar | Election Commissioner of India |
Rinki Sethi | The chief information security officer of Twitter Inc |
Rohit Rajpal | Treasurer of All India Tennis Association |
S Aparna | Secretary of Department of Pharmaceuticals |
S Krishnan | MD & CEO of Punjab & Sind Bank |
S R Sarma | Chief of Materiel of the Indian Navy |
Sachin Tendulkar | Brand ambassador of Paytm First Games |
Sameer Kumar Khare | Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila. |
Shekhar Kapur | President of Film and Television Institute of India( FTII ) |
Simanchala Dash | Advisor to Executive Director of International Monetary Fund |
Sonu Sood | Brand ambassador of Acer India |
Subhash Kamath | Chairman of Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). |
Sunil Sethi | Advisor of Khadi and Village Industries Commission |
Suresh Raina | Brand ambassador of Online poker platform 9stacks |
Usha Padhee | 1st woman DG of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security |
Utpal Kumar Singh | Secretary in Lok Sabha |
Vinkesh Gulati | 35th President Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) |
Vinod Kumar Yadav | CEO of Railway Board |
Vipin Sondhi | Vice President of SIAM |
Virat Kohli | Brand ambassador of Great Learning |
Yashvardhan K. Sinha | Chief Information Commissioner |
Yoshihide Suga | Prime Minister of Japan |
Yuvraj Singh | Brand ambassador of Aakash Educational Services Limited |
Important Appointments in August 2020:
Name of Person | Designation |
Air Marshal V. R. Chaudhari | Chief of Western Air Command of Indian Air Force. |
Alexander Lukashenko | President of Belarus |
Ashwani Bhatia | Managing Director of SBI |
Cyril George assumes | Deputy Chairman of Cochin Port Trust |
Deepak Shetty | Deputy CEO and MD JCB India |
Francisco Asue | PM of Equatorial Guinea |
Girish Chandra Murmu | Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India |
GP Garg | SEBI’s new executive director |
Hamed Bakayoko | Prime Minister of Ivory Coast |
Harbhajan Singh | Brand Ambassador of eBikeGO |
Hardayal Prasad | MD & CEO of PNB Housing Finance |
Hardik Satishchandra Shah | Private Secretary to PM Modi |
Harsh Kumar Bhanwala | Executive chairman of Capital India Finance Limited |
Jaideep Bhatnagar | Director General of All India Radio AIR News. He replaces Ms. Ira Joshi |
Kaushik Khona | CEO of GoAir |
Keith Rowley | PM of Trinidad and Tobago |
Kishor Rungta | Chairman of Fertilisers Association of India |
Luis Abinader | President of Dominican Republic |
Mahinda Rajapaksa | Prime Minister of Sri Lankan (for 4th time) |
Manoj Sinha | Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He will replace Girish Chandra Murmu |
Mohamed Irfaan Ali | President of Guyana |
Mohamed Ould Bilal | Prime Minister of Mauritania |
Navin Agarwal | MD and CEO of Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company |
P S Ranipse | Inspector General (IG) in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). |
Pradeep Kumar Joshi | Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) |
Pramod Bhasin | Chairman of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). |
Rajiv Kumar | Election Commissioner of India. |
Rakesh Asthana | Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF). |
Rohit Sharma | Oakley’s brand ambassador in India |
S S Mundra | Non-executive chairman of India bulls Housing |
Sashidhar Jagdishan | MD and CEO of HDFC Bank. replace Aditya Puri |
Satya Pal Malik | Meghalaya Governor |
Shahzan Mujeeb | National Brand Ambassador of Aligarh Municipal Corporation |
SN Rajeswari | CMD of Oriental Insurance |
Soma Mondal | Chairman of Steel Authority of India |
Suhail Sameer | Group President of BharatPe |
Suresh Raina & Harmanpreet Kaur | Brand Ambassadors of WTF Sports |
Urjit Patel | Additional Director of Great Eastern Shipping |
Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi | Director General Naval Operations (DGNO). |
Walter Roger Martos Ruiz | Prime Minister of Peru |
Appointments of July 2020:
Name of the Person | Designation |
Alok Mishra | CEO and Director of Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) |
Andrzej Duda | President of Poland |
Anil Kumar Jha | Head Member of the Expert Appraisal Committee |
Archana Soreng | Member of Antonio Guterres new Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change |
Arun Kumar | Vice Chairman of the UIC (International union of Railways) |
Ashok Lavasa | Vice President of the Asian Development Bank |
Ashwini Kumar Tiwari | MD and CEO of SBI Cards |
Brett Lee | Brand Ambassador for Sports Adda |
Baushuan Ger | Taiwan’s new ambassador to India |
Chabdrikapersad ‘Chan’ Santokhi | President of South American Country ‘Suriname’ |
Dr. Vidhu P. Nair | India’s next Ambassador to Turkmenistan |
G Srinivasan | Head of the panel to study the suitability of Surety Bonds issuance by Indian insurers |
Gudni Johannesson | President of Iceland |
Gyanendro Ningombam | President of Hockey India |
Hariharan K | Chief Financial Officer(CFO) of Lakshmi Vilas Bank |
Hemang Amin | Interim CEO of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) |
Hemant Harichandra Kotalwar | India’s next ambassador to Czech Republic |
Hichem Mechichi | Prime Minister of Tunisia |
Indra Mani Pandey | Indian envoy to United Nations bodies and other international organisations in Geneva |
Injeti Srinivas | Chairman of IFSCA (International Financial Services Centers Authority) |
Jayant Krishna | First India based CEO of UKIBC (UK India Business Council) |
K S Reddy | Head an 11 member committee to assess COVID 19 impacts on Human Rights |
KK Venugopal | Attorney General of India |
Kulmeet Bawa | President and Managing Director for SAP (Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing) |
Lee Hsien Loong | Prime Minister of Singapore |
Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid | Interim Prime Minister of Somalia |
N. Sivaraman | MD and Group CEO of ICRA Limited |
Naveen Tahilyani | MD and CEO of TATA AIA Life Insurance |
Nigar Johar | Pakistan Army’s First Female Lieutenant General |
Ossouka Raponda | India’s Next Ambassador to Romania |
P C Kandpal | MD and CEO of SBI General Insurance Company Limited |
P Praveen Siddharth | Personnel Secretary to the President Ram Nath Kovind |
Partha Pratim Sengupta | MD and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) |
Prof. R Narayanaswamy | Head the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) |
Rajeeva Swarup | Chief Secretary of Rajasthan |
Ramesh Boddu | MD and CEO of Karur Vysya Bank |
Ravinder Bhakar | CEO of the Central Board of Film Certifications (CBFC) |
Riva Ganguly Das | Secretary East in Ministry of External Affairs |
Roshni Nadar Malhotra | New Chairman of HCL Technologies |
Rudrendra Tandon | India’s Next Ambassador to Afghanistan |
Sahil Seth | Honorary Advisor for BRICS CCI (Chambers of Commerce Industry) |
Sanjay Dwivedi | Director General of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) |
Sanjay Kapoor | President of Hyderabad Management Association(HMA) |
Sanjiv Bajaj | Chairman of Bajaj Finance |
Shrikant Madhav Vaidya | Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) |
Shyam Srinivasan | MD and CEO of Federal Bank |
Sukhbir Singh | Chairman of National Highway Authority of India |
Sumit Deb | MD and CEO of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) |
SP Kochhar | Director General (DG) of Cellular Operators Association of India |
Tushar Mehta | Solicitor General |
V Suryanarayan | New MD of Cholamandalam MS General Insurance |
Vice Admiral MA Hampiholi | Commandant of Indian Naval Academy (INA) |
Vikram Doraiswami | India’s Next Ambassador to Bangladesh |
list of New Appointments in 2020: June 2020
Name of the Person | Designation |
AM Naik | Non executive chairman of Larsen & Toubro board |
Anandiben Patel | Governor of Madhya Pradesh |
Anil Valluri | Senior Director for Google Cloud India |
Anita Kotwani | CEO of Carat India |
Arun Singhal | CEO of FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) |
Brajendra Navnit | India’s Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) |
Clare Connor | 1st female president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) |
Devendra Kumar Singh | Director of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) |
Dr N Rajendran | CEO of Indian Financial Technology and Allies Services (IFTAS) |
Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan | Director of the National Science Foundation,US |
Gaitri Kumar | High Commissioner of India to UK |
Gaurav Maheshwari | Chief Financial Officer Standard Chartered Bank (India) |
Harsha Bangari | Deputy MD of Export Import Bank of India (EXIM) Bank |
Imtaiyazur Rahman | CEO of UTI Mutual Fund |
Javed Iqbal Wani | Judge of JK High Court. |
Kaizad Bharucha | Executive Director of the HDFC bank |
Kathy Lueders | The First Ever Female Director of Human Explorations At NASA |
Krishnendu Majumdar | Chairman of British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) |
Kubatbek Boronov | Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan |
Lazarus Chakwera | President of Malawi |
Lieutenant General Manoj Pande | Commander in Chief(15th) of Andaman & Nicobar Command |
M. Nethra (13 years girl) | Goodwill Ambassador to the Poor by UNADAP (United Nation Association for Development and Peace) |
ManushiChillar | Brand Ambassador of Adidas India |
Micheal Martin | Prime Minister of Ireland |
Mohandas Pai | Chairman of the committee on Service Provider of IBBI (Insolvency and Bankruptcy of India) |
Monika Kapil Mohta | India’s next Ambassador to Switzerland |
Nirakar Pradhan | CEO of of PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers International Association) |
Pankaj Tripathi | Brand Ambassador for Bihar Khadi |
Patrick Pichette | Chairman of the Twitter board. |
PR Jaishankar | MD of India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) |
Pradip Kumar Tripathi | Secretary in the Ministry of Steel, GOI |
Priyanka Chopra and Anurag Kashyap | Ambassador at 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2020 |
R K Chaturvedi | Secretary in the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, GOI |
Rahul Shrivastava | Ambassador of India to Romania |
Rajeev Topno | Senior Advisor to World Bank Executive Director |
Rajiv Singh | Chairman of Property Firm Delhi Land and Finance Limited (DLF) |
Raveesh Kumar | India’s Next Ambassador to Finland |
Ravinder Singh Dhillon | Chairman and MD of Power Finance Corporation (PFC) |
Rohit Sharma | First Brand Ambassador of IIFL Finance |
Sanjiv Bajaj | Vice President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) |
Santosh Jha | Ambassador of India to Belgium |
Sethuraman Panchanathan | Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Shri Shambhu S. Kumaran | India’s next Ambassador to Philippines. He will replace Jaideep Mazumdar |
Shantanu Preetam | Chief Technology Officer ( CTO) of PayU |
Sushil Kumar Singhal | Next High Commissioner of India to Papua New Guinea |
Sibi George | India’s next Ambassador to Kuwait |
Sonu Sood | Brand Ambassador of Gargo International. |
Sourav Ganguly and Sunil Chhetri | Brand Ambassadors for JSW Cement |
Subramanian Sundar | MD and CEO of Lakshmi Vilas Bank |
T. Rabi Sankar | Chairman of The Indian Financial Technology & Allied Services (IFTAS) |
Uday Kotak | President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) |
Urjit Patel | Chairman of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) |
V N Datt | CMD of National Fertilizers Limited |
Varun Tej | Brand Ambassador of Nagarjuna Cement. |
Vasantharao Satya Venkata | Deputy MD of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) |
Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta | Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command. |
Vijay Khanduja | India’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe |
Vikram Pawah | President of BMW India |
Vini Mahajan | Punjab’s first woman chief secretary |
Virendra Nath Datt | CMD of National Fertilizers Limited |
Volkan Bozkir | President of 75th UN General Assembly |
Wassim Jaffer | Head Coach of Uttarakhand Cricket Team |
list of New Appointments in 2020: May 2020
Name of the Person | Designation |
Abhas Jha | Practice Manager of World Bank for Climate Change |
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | Chairperson Parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC), reappointed |
Aiman Ezzat | CEO of Capgemini Group. He will Replace Paul Hermelin |
Ajay Tirkey | Secretary of Ministry of Women and Child Development WCD Ministry |
Ajinkya Rahane | Brand Ambassador for edtech company ELSA Corp(English Language Speech Assistant Corporation) |
Akhil Kumar(Indian boxer) | Re-inducted Disciplinary Panel of National Anti Doping Agency’s (NADA). |
Anil Bhansali | VP Engineering in India of Google Cloud |
Anita Kotwani | CEO of Carat India, a media agency |
Arvind Kumar Sharma | Secretary to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MSME Ministry |
Arun Singhal | CEO of India’s apex food regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). |
Ashok Michael Pinto (Indian American lawyer) | US representative to International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD |
Atsushi Ogata | President, MD and CEO of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) |
Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel (5th time) |
Carmen Reinhart | Vice President and Chief Economist of World Bank Group |
DPS Negi | Director General of Labour Bureau in the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Replaces BN Nandha. |
Dilip Oommen | President of Indian Steel Association(ISA). He will replace TV Narendran. |
Dr Harsh Vardhan | Chairma of World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board . He will replace Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan |
Giridhar Aramane | Secretary to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways |
Govinda Rajulu Chintala | Chairman of NABARD . Replace Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala |
Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi | Secretary of MNRE(Ministry of New and Renewable Energy). He succeeds Anand Kumar, who earlier took charge as Secretary in Ministry of Culture |
Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes | Director General of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) |
Jahnabi Phookan | National President of FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO) |
Keva Bain of Bahamas | President of World Health Assembly |
Krishnan Ramachandran | MD & CEO of Max Bupa Health Insurance. He succeeds Ashish Mehrotra |
Kumar Sangakkara(first non British President) | President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) |
Leo Puri | Chairman of JP Morgan South Asia and South East Asia |
Lieutenant General Raj Shukla | Command of the Army Training Command (ARTRAC). |
Manoj Ahuja | Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Replace Anita Karwal |
Manoj Jain | chairman of the city gas distributor Mahanagar Gas Ltd |
Marcos Troyjo | President of New Development Bank (NDB) ( from July 7, 2020). Replace K. V Kamath |
Moeketsi Majoro | Prime Minister of Lesotho |
Mustafa Al Kadhimi | Prime Minister of Iraq. |
Narinder Batra | A member of the Olympic Channel Commission. |
Narinder Batra | President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH). |
Neeraj Dhawan | Chief Risk Officer of Yes Bank |
PK Nair | Indian Ambassador to Niger . He will replace Rajesh Agarwal |
PR Jaishankar | MD of the India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) |
R Sreelekha | Kerala’s First Woman DGP |
Rahul Chhabra | Economic Relations Secretary |
Rajesh Goel | Director General (DG) of the Realtors body National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) |
Ramesh Babu V | Director (Operations) of NTPC. |
Saritha Komatireddy | Nominated by Trump as US federal court judge. |
Sandip Pradhan | Director General of the Sports Authority of India (SAI). |
Shikha Sharma | Advisor of Google Pay India |
Shri Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi | Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy. |
SN Rajeswari | Chairman and MD of the Oriental Insurance Company (OIC). Replace AV Girija Kumar |
Sriram Venkataraman | Chief financial officer (CFO) for the commerce division of Flipkart |
Suresh K Reddy | India’s new ambassador to Brazil |
Tarun Bajaj | Director on RBI Central Board . He will replace Atanu Chakraborty |
Thierry Delaporte | CEO & MD of Wipro. He will replace Abidali Neemuchwala |
TS Tirumurti | India’s New Permanent Representative to UN |
V Vidyavathi | Director General of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) |
Zubair Iqbal | MD of Jammu & Kashmir Bank |
We update the month-wise Appointment list every month.so keep in touch with www.studentsdisha.in for new updates.
List of Important Appointments in 2020:April 2020
Name of the Person | Designation |
Aalok Kumar | President, CEO of NEC Corporation and NEC Technologies India |
Ajay Mahajan | MD & CEO of credit rating agency “CARE Ratings” Replace Rajesh Mokashi. |
Anamika Roy Rashtrawar | MD & CEO of IFFCO Tokio General Insurance. Succeed Warendra Sinha. |
Anita Karwal | Secretary in the Department of Education and Literacy. |
Anurag Srivastava | Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman |
Aramane Giridhar | Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways |
Arvind Kumar Sharma | Secretary in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry |
Birupaksha Mishra | Executive Director of Union Bank of India |
BP Kanungo | RBI Deputy Governor |
David Li | CEO of Huawei Telecommunications India. Replaced Jay Chen. |
Deepak Mittal | Indian Ambassador to the State of Qatar |
Dilip Kumar Patel | Director HR of NTPC |
Guillaume Cartier | Chairman for Africa, Middle East and India markets. |
Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi | Secretary in the ministry Ministry of New and Renewable Energy |
J Arun Kumar | Head coach of USA men’s national cricket team |
J Packirisamy | Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Union Bank of India |
Justice Biswanath Somadder | Chief Justices of Meghalaya high court |
Justice Dipankar Datta | Chief Justices of Bombay high court. |
Justice Mohammad Rafiq | Chief Justices of Odisha high court |
K Ramachandran | Executive Director of Indian Bank |
Kapil Dev Tripathi | Secretary to President of India (Ram Nath Kovind) |
Lakshminarayanan Duraiswamy | MD of Sundaram Home Finance. Replaced Srinivas Acharya |
Lisa Nandy | UK shadow foreign minister |
Madhabi Puri Buch | Whole Time Member (WTM) at Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) |
Maha Prasad Adhikari | Governor of Nepal central bank |
Mrutyunjay Mahapatra | Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Canara Bank |
N Kamakodi | MD & CEO of City Union Bank(reappointed) |
Nagendra Nath Sinha | Secretary of the Rural Development Department |
Neeraj Vyas | Interim MD & CEO of PNB Housing |
P. K. Purwar | Additional charge as CMD of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) |
Parag Raja | MD & CEO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance. Succeed Vikas Seth |
Piyush Srivastava | Indian Ambassador to Bahrain |
PV Sindhu | Ambassadors for ‘I am badminton’ awareness campaign. |
R V Verma | Part time chairman AU Small Finance Bank |
Raghuram Rajan | Key member in IMF external advisory group |
Rajesh Verma | Secretary in the Department of Agriculture |
Rajiv Kumar | Chairperson of Public Enterprises Selection Board(PESB) |
Rajnesh Oswal | Permanent Judge of High Court of J&K, Ladakh |
Rakesh Sharma | President of IMMA (International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association). Replace Johannes Loman |
Rohit Sharma | Brand ambassador of ‘CricKingdom’ |
Sanjay Kothari | Central Vigilance Commissioner of India |
Satbir Bedi | Secretary in Central Information Commission |
Shiv Das Meena | Chairman & Managing Director of HUDCO |
Suresh N Patel | Vigilance Commissioner in the anti -corruption watchdog CVC. |
T.S. Tirumurti | Ambassador of India to UN. He will replace Sayyad Akbaruddin |
Tarun Bajaj | Secretary in the Economic Affairs Department |
UB Pravin Rao | Chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM). succeeding Keshav Murugesh, |
Vineet Arora | MD & CEO of Paytm General Insurance Ltd |
Viswanathan Anand | Ambassador For Environment Education of WWF (World Wide Fund) India |
New Appointments of March 2020:
Person Name | Designation |
Abhay Kumar Singh | Chairman & MD of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) |
Ajay Banga | Executive Chairman of Mastercard |
Ajay Bisaria | Next High Commissioner of India to Canada |
Albin Kurti | Prime Minister of Kosovo |
Alok Sharma | United Kingdom New Business Minister |
Amarjeet Sinha and Bhaskar Khulbe | Advisers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
Anita Pandove | Information Commissioner |
Anjani Rathore | Chief Digital Officer of HDFC Bank |
Arvind Kejriwal | Chif Minister of Delhi (Reelected) |
Ashraf Ghani | President of Afghanistan |
Atul Kumar Gupta | President of Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) |
Barry O’Farrell | Australia’s high commissioner to India |
Bimal Julka | Chief Information Commissioner |
Bimal Kumar Jha | Deputy Chairman of VOC Port Trust, Tuticorin |
Bipul Chandra | Head of Indian Operations, Ducati |
C N Ramachandaran Nair | Formulate an Inventory and Valuation Report of Ornaments at Sabarimala temple (Supreme Court of India) |
Debashis Panda | Secretary, Department of Financial Services |
Deepa Malik | President of Paralympic Committee of India |
Faure Gnassingbe | President of Togo |
Gopal Baglay | India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka |
Gopal Baglay | India’s next Ambassador to Sri Lanka |
Gursharan Singh | Secretary General of Paralympic Committee of India |
Jawed Ashraf | India’s next Ambassador to France |
Jeff Weiner | Executive Chairman of LinkedIn |
Ryan Roslansky | CEO of LinkedIn |
Karen Pierce | Britain’s Ambassodor to US |
Kavender Chaudhury and Shashi Ranjan Prasad Singh | Vice President of Paralympic Comittee of India |
Laxman Savadi | Deputy CM of Karnataka |
Lt General (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain, Rajendra Singh and Krishna Vatsa | National Disaster Management Authority |
LV Prabhakar | MD & CEO, Canara Bank |
M. Ajit Kumar | Chairman of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs |
Madan Lal, Rudra Pratap Singh and Sulakshana Naik | Cricket Advisory Committee(CAC) of BCCI |
Mahant Nritya Gopal Das | President of Ram Mandir Trust |
Mahathir Mohamad | Prime Minister of Malaysia |
Michael Miebach | CEO of Mastercard |
Mohammed Tawfik Allawi | Prime Minister of Iraq |
Pawan Kumar Agarwal | Consumer Affairs Secretary. |
Philip Barton | Britain’s High Commissioner to India |
Pramod Agrawal | Chairman and MD of Coal India Ltd. |
Pramod Kumar Singh | Whole time member of Pension Fund Steel Regulatory and Development Auhority |
Priti Patel | Home Minister in the British Cabinet |
Puneet Sharma | CFO of Axis Bank |
Rajesh Kumar | MD & CEO, TransUnion Cibil |
Rajiv Bansal | Chairman and MD of Air India |
Rajiv Ranjan | Secretary, Department of Fisheries |
Rajkumar | Secretary, Defence Production. |
Rajlaxmi Singh Deo | President of the Rowing Federation of India (RFI) |
Ratan Tata | Chairman of the Advisory Council of Mumbai University |
Riek Machar | First Vice President of South Sudan |
Rishabh Pant | Brand Ambassador of Jindal South West (JSW) Steel |
Rishi Sunak | UK’s Finance Minister |
Robin Singh | Director of Cricket of the United Arab Emirates(UAE) |
Sanjay Kothari | Central Vigilance Commissioner |
Sanjay Vatsayan Eastern Fleet Commander | |
Saraswati Prasad | Secretary of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes |
S N Shrivastava | Next Delhi Police Commissioner |
Sh B Murli Kumar | Special Expenditure Observer of Election Commission of India |
Sh Mrinal Kanti Das | Special Police Observer of Election Commission of India |
Sourav Ganguly | India’s goodwill ambassador for Tokyo Olympics |
Suella Braverman | UK’s Attorney General |
Sumant Kathpalia | MD & CEO of IndusInd Bank |
Sunil Gurbaxani | MD & CEO of Dhanalaxmi Bank |
Supratim Bandyopadhyay | Chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority |
Suresh Patel | Vigilance Commissioner |
Usha Sharma | Youth Affairs Secretary |
Vijay Advani | New Chairman of Global Board (US India Business Council (USIBC) |
Vinay Dube | Chief executive officer (CEO) of Jet Airways |
YK Joshi(Lieutenant General) | General Officer Commanding in Chief of Northern Command |
List of New Appointments of February 2020:
Name of the Person | Designation |
Adnan al-Zurufi | Prime Minister of Iraq |
Ajay Bhushan Pandey | New Finance Secretary of Committee of the Cabinet |
Ajay Kumar | Next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Uganda |
Amita Pandove | Information Commissioner of Central Information Commission (CIC) |
Amitabh Bachchan | Brand ambassador of IDFC FIRST Bank . |
Anurag Mehrotra | CEO Mahindra Ford |
Anurag Srivastava | Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).He replace Raveesh Kumar. |
Arundhati Bhattacharya | CEO of Salesforce India |
Ashraf Ghani | President of Afghanistan.(re-elected) |
Ashwani Lohani | Chairman of APTDC ( Andhra Pradesh tourism development corporation) |
Atanu Chakarborty | Economic affairs secretary |
B K Deka | Chairman Of Assam Petrochemical Limited |
Bansi Lal Bhat | Chair person of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ( NCLAT) . He Replace Sudhashu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya . |
Bimal Julka | Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India |
BP Kanungo | RBI’s deputy Governor for 1 year .( reappointed) |
Chalasani Venkat Nageswar | Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of SBI |
D.S Rawat | CEO & MD Of Bharti Infratel |
Daren Tang | DG of WIPO ( World Intellectual Property Org ) |
Debases Panda | Nominate as a Director on the central Board of RBI. |
Denys Shmygal | Prime Minister of Ukraine . |
Eric Horvitz | CSO(Chief Scientific Officer) of Microsoft |
Harvinder Singh | Members of BCCI selection committee |
Hirdesh Kumar | Chief Electoral officer of J & K. |
Ho Sung Song | President of Kio Motors . |
Janez Jansa | Prime Minister of Slovenia. He replace Marjan Sarec . |
Karan Bajwa | MD of Google cloud India. |
Kareena Kapoor | Brand Ambassador of Puma. |
Katarina Sakellaropoulou (1st female) | President of Greece . |
Kirshna Mohan Prasad | Member Of CBDT (Central Board Of Direct Taxes) |
Satish Kumar Gupta | Member Of CBDT (Central Board Of Direct Taxes) |
Latik S. kundu (1st women) | MD &CEO of MSE (Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India ). |
Lt. gen KJS Dhillon | Director General of Defence Inteligence Agency |
Mohammad Nabi | Secretary General Of Football Federation Of Iran |
Mr. Daren Tang (Singapore ) | Director-General of the World Intellectual property Organization( WIPO) |
Muhyiddin Yassin | Prime Minister of Malaysia.( 8th) |
Noel Quinn | CEO HSBC Bank |
Nupur Kulshrestha(1st women) | Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Indian Coast Guard |
Pekka Landmark | CEO & President of Nokia. |
Prashant Kumar | MD&CEO of yes Bank . |
PV Sidhu | Brand Ambassador for Andhra Pradesh anti graft helpline. |
R Gandhi & Ananth Narayan | Additional Directors of the Yes Bank Board |
Rajeev Jain | Managing Director of Bajaj Finance |
Rajiv Bajaj | MD and CEO of Bajaj Auto. |
Ranjan Gogoi | Member of Rajya sabha. |
Ravinder Singh Dhillon | Chairman & MD (CMD) of Power Finance Corporation (PFC) from June 1,2020 to may 31, 2023 . |
S N Srivastava | Delhi police Commissioner |
Sameer Aggarwal | CEO of WalMart India . replace Krishna Lyer. |
Sanjay Kumar Panda | India’s Ambassador to Turkey |
Sanjeev Nautiyal | MD &CEO of SBI life Insurance Company. |
Seema Verma | One of key member of white house Coronavirus Task Force |
Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (17th). |
Sudhansu Pandey | Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Metals And Minerals Trading Corporation (MMTC) ltd. He Replace Ved Prakash . |
Sukhdeo Singh | Appointed As Chief Secretary Of Jharkhand |
Sumant kathpalia | MD & CEO of Indusind Bank . He replace Romesh Sobit. |
Sunil chhartri | Chosen for FIFA Campaign against COVID 19. |
Sunil Duggal | Vedanta Interim CEO . |
Sunil Joshi | Chairman of BCCI Selection Committee. |
Surjit Singh Deswal | Additional DG of BSF (Border Security Force). |
Tuhin Kant Pandey | Dept of investment & public asset management secretary. |
Virat Kohil | Ambassador of Smart Phone iQOO . |
New Appointments of January 2020:
Person | Designation |
Challa Sreenivasulu Setty | MD( managing director) of SBI(for 3 years) |
Sanjiv Chadha | MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda |
Lingam Venkat Prabhakar | MD & CEO of Canara Bank |
Atanu Kumar Das | MD & CEO of Bank of India. |
Manoj Kohli | India head of Soft Bank |
Sunil Mehta | Chief Executive of Indian Banks’ Association |
Sunil Arora | Chairman of FEMBoSA |
A Sakthivel | Chairman of Apparel Export Promotion Council of India (AEPC) for the period 2020-21 (replace HKL Magu) |
A.P.Maheshwari | Director General of CRPF |
Andrew Bailey | Governor of Bank of England |
Anil Khanna | Life President of Asian Tennis Federation |
Arjun Munda | President of Archery Association of India |
Arvind Krishna | CEO of IBM |
B Anand | Secretary of National Commission for Minorities |
Chandra Pal Singh | Chairman of Krishak Bharati Cooperative Ltd (KRIBHCO) |
Debashish Anda | Director, SBI Central Board (Nominated) |
Dr Bul Behari Saha | Bureau Member of IUPAC |
Elyes Fakhfakh | Prime Minister of Tunisia |
General Satinder Kumar Saini | Vice Chief of Army Staff |
Haitham Bin Tariq Al -Said | Sultan of Oman |
Harish Salve | Queen’s Counsel (QC) for the courts of England and Wales. |
Harjeet Kaur Joshi | Chairperson & Managing Director (CMD) of Shipping Corporation of India (first woman) |
Hillary Clinton | New Chancellor Of Queen’s University Belfast(Ireland) |
Janak Raj | Member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He will replace M D Patra, |
Katerina Sakellaropoulou | 1st woman president of Greece |
Lt Col Yuvraj Malik | Director of the National Book Trust (NBT). |
Lt General Girish Kumar | Surveyor General of India (reappointed) |
M Nagaraj | Chairman and MD of State owned Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) |
Michael Debabrata Patra | Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India(RBI) |
Mikhail V. Mishustin | Prime Minister Russia |
Nripendra Misra | Chairman of the executive council of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library(NMML) |
Pedro Sanchez | Prime Minister of Spain |
Prem Chand Verma | India’s Deputy Chef de Mission for Tokyo Olympics |
Punit Sood | India head of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) |
Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar | Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Girish Chandra Murmu will have three Advisors. The other two Advisors K K Sharma and Farooq Khan |
Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar | Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir |
Robert Abela | Prime minister of Malta (14th) |
Rohan Shah | Governor on ERIA Board(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia) |
S Sundar | Interim MD and CEO of Lakshmi Vilas Bank |
Sandip Patel | MD for India and South Asia of IBM. |
Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani | Prime Minister of Qatar |
Suresh Chandra Sharma | 1st chairman of National Medical Commission (for 3 year) |
Taranjit Singh Sandhu | India’s Ambassador to US (replacing Harsh Vardhan Shringla) |
Tsai Ing-wen | President of Taiwan(2nd term) |
Umaro Cissoko Embalo | President of Guinea Bissau , replace the incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz. |
Umesh Sinha | Deputy Election Commissioner |
V Sudhakar Chowdary | Vice Chairman of the cooperative society. |
Vinod Kumar Yadav | Chairman of Railway Board (reappoiunted) |
Zoran Milanovic | President of Croatia . He defeated Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, who was the first female president of Croatia. |