Important National and International Appointments in November 2016

New Chairman of Central Board of Direct

Sushil Chandra (Senior Indian Revenue

Taxes (CBDT)

Service officer and she replace Rani Singh

Nair)

first Sikh to be appointed to the Canadian

Sarabjit Singh Marwah (Kolkata-born Sarabjit

Senate

Singh Marwah, have been appointed to the

Senate by Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of
Canada)

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the

Kristalina Georgieva (IBRD and IDA are the

International Bank for Reconstruction and

lending arms of the World Bank)

Development (IBRD) and the International

Development Association (IDA) of the World
Bank Group
New brand ambassador of Equitas Small

Ravichandran Ashwin (Indian off-spinner)

Finance Bank
New brand ambassador for Swachh Rail

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak (the founder of Sulabh

Mission

International)

the next Ambassador of India to Lebanon

Sanjiv Arora

The new chairman of PwC India

Shyamal Mukherjee (replacing two-time

chairman Deepak Kapoor)

the first Indian ambassador for Switzerland

Ranveer Singh (Bollywood actor, He will now

Tourism

be in charge of promoting Switzerland Tourism

s campaign for 2017 Nature wants you
back!)

the first Indian-American Senator in the US

Kamala Harris (California's Attorney General)

Senator
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Praveen Kumar Sharma (Sharma is General

of Central Registry of Securitisation Asset

Manager, State Bank of India)

Reconstruction and Security Interest of India

(Cersai)
New Executive Director (ED) of Reserve Bank

M Rajeshwar Rao (Replacing G

of India

Mahalingam's, Prior he was the Chief General

Manager, Financial Markets Operations
Department)

New member of National Human Rights

Avinash Rai Khanna (BJP Vice President,

Commission (NHRC)

selected by high-level selection panel headed

by Prime Minister Narendra Modi)

Chairman of Fund Trustee and Advisory

Vinod Rai

Commission of Kerala
New MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda Capital

Ratnesh Kumar

Markets
the 45th President of the United States

Donald Trump (belongs to Republican party

secured the support of 276 of the 538
members of the electoral college)

re-elected Director-General of the International Guy Ryder (Ryder is the 10th ILO DirectorLabour Organization (ILO)

General and has about 35 years of experience

in the world of work)

Re-chosen as UN goodwill ambassador

Maria Sharapova (Tennis star)

brand ambassador for the second T20 World

Rahul Dravid (Former Indian Cricket Team

Cup for the Blind

Captain)

Managing Director of Mahindra India'slargest

Pawan Goenka (He remained as the

utility vehicle manufacturer

Executive Director of Mahindra now has been

elevated to the position of Managing Director,
and Anand Mahindra was redesignated as the
Executive Chairman)

the first Indian to be elected the President of

Narinder Batra

the International Hockey Federation

New Group President and Head of Global

Amresh Acharya

Indian Banking of Yes Bank

New Chairman of TATA Global Beverages

Harish Bhat (he replaces Cyrus Mistry)

CEO of Times Global Partners

Rishi Jaitly (Times Internet Limited (TIL), has

named former Twitter India Head Rishi Jaitly
as chief executive of Times Global Partners)

New Executive Chairman of National Legal

Jagdish Singh Khehar (He succeed Anil R.

Services Authority

Dave)

MD & CEO of Catholic Syrian Bank

CVR Rajendran (currently holding the position

of Chief Executive Officer of the Association of
Mutual Funds of India)

Chief Executive of The State Bank of Mauritius Siby Sebastian

(SBM) Group for its India operations
President of Federation of Indian Chambers of

Pankaj Patel (chairman and managing director

Commerce & Industry (FICCI) for 2017

of Cadila Healthcare)

Executive Director of McLaren Technology

Zak Brown

Group
New Chairman of National Highways Authority

Yudhvir Singh Malik (83 batch Haryana cadre

of India (NHAI)

IAS officer, replacing Raghav Chandra)

New Army chief of Pakistan

Lieutenant General QamarJaved

Bajwa(replacing incumbent chief Raheel
Sharif)

new Hockey India President

Mariamma Koshy (Former Hockey player)

new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Myntra Ajit Narayanan (replacing Shamik Sharma has
Flipkart-owned fashion platform

moved on to an advisory role)

New Director-General of Military Operations

Lt-General A K Bhatt (succeed Lt-General

(DGMO)

Ranbir Singh)

Australias first woman Chief Justice of

Susan Kiefel (She will replace Justice Robert

Australia

French Kiefel)