There has been several new appointments in Power Centers, important Government Posts, organizations - both in India and across the globe. Catch a glimpse of important appointments of 2013
| Sl No | Post/Appointment | Name | Month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banking | |||
| 1 | Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda | S. S. Mundra | Jan-13 |
| 2 | Executive Director of Central Bank of India | Raj Kumar Goyal | Jan-13 |
| 3 | Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Canara Bank | R K Dubey | Jan-13 |
| 4 | Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) | Urjit Patel | Jan-13 |
| 5 | Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India | Deepali Pant Joshi | Jan-13 |
| 6 | Non-executive Chairman of Axis Bank | Sanjiv Misra | Mar-13 |
| 7 | Governor of the Bank of Japan | Haruhiko Kuroda | Mar-13 |
| 8 | President – Retail Banking of Axis Bank | Rajiv Anand | Apr-13 |
| 9 | Chairman and Managing Director of United Bank of India (UBI) | Archana Bhargava | Apr-13 |
| 10 | President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) | Takehiko Nakao | Apr-13 |
| Business/Market Related | |||
| 11 | CEO of Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) | Sanjoy Chowdhury | Jan-13 |
| 12 | New country manager for India LinkedIn | Nishant K Rao | Jan-13 |
| 13 | Managing director of CSC in India | Neeraj Nityanand | Jan-13 |
| 14 | Managing Director of IBM India Pvt Ltd | Vanitha Narayanan | Jan-13 |
| CEO of HCL Technologie Ltd. | Anant Gupta | Jan-13 | |
| 15 | Deputy Managing Director of Yamaha India | Masaki Asano | Jan-13 |
| 16 | Whole Time Member of SEBI | S Raman | Jan-13 |
| 17 | Secretary of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) | MS Sahoo | Jan-13 |
| 18 | President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) | Subodh Kumar Agrawal | Feb-13 |
| 19 | Vice Preident of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) | K Raghu | Feb-13 |
| 20 | Chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) | T S Vijayan | Feb-13 |
| 21 | Managing Director and CEO Maruti Suzuki India Ltd | Kenichi Ayukawa | Mar-13 |
| 22 | Head of Google’s Android division | Sunder Pichai | Mar-13 |
| 23 | Chairman of CII–Southern Region for 2013-14 | B. Santhanam | Mar-13 |
| 24 | President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India | Rajan Bharti Mittal | Mar-13 |
| 25 | President of CII for the year 2013-14 | S. Gopalakrishnan | Apr-13 |
| 26 | Chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd | G V Prasad | Apr-13 |
| 27 | President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India, Indian affiliate of the Paris-based ICC | Rajan Bharti Mittal | Apr-13 |
| 28 | President Designate of CII for the year 2013-14 | Ajay S Shriram | Apr-13 |
| 29 | Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) | Krishnakumar Natarajan | Apr-13 |
| 30 | Head of the Securities and Exchange Commission | Mary Jo White | Apr-13 |
| 31 | Vice Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for the year 2013-14 | R Chandrasekaran | Apr-13 |
| 32 | Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) | Sunil Bharti Mittal | Apr-13 |
| 33 | Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) | Narendra Kumar | Apr-13 |
| Government Appointment | |||
| 34 | Secretary of Ministry of Water Resources | Syamal Kumar Sarkar | Jan-13 |
| 35 | Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India | Justice D K Jain | Jan-13 |
| 36 | Secretary of the Department of Disinvestment | Ravi Mathur | Jan-13 |
| 37 | Chairman of 14th finance commission | Y V Reddy | Jan-13 |
| 38 | First woman Speaker of the Singapore parliament | Halimah Yacob | Jan-13 |
| 39 | New China envoy to India | Wei Wei | Jan-13 |
| 40 | Commandant of National Defence Academy | Kulwant Singh Gill | Jan-13 |
| 41 | Speaker of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly | Brij Bihari Lal Butail | Jan-13 |
| 42 | Who has been appointed as the new Solicitor-General of India | Mohan Parasaran | Feb-13 |
| 43 | Who has been appointed as the new Lokayukta of Karnataka | Y. Bhaskar Rao | Feb-13 |
| 44 | Next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York | Asoke Kumar Mukerji | Feb-13 |
| 45 | 20th Director General of Indian Coast Guard | Anurag G Thapliyal | Mar-13 |
| 46 | Goa’s first Lokayukta | B. Sudershan Reddy | Mar-13 |
| 47 | First Chief Justice of the new Manipur High Court | Abhay Manohar Sapre | Mar-13 |
| 48 | Lokayukta of Rajasthan | Sajjan Singh Kothari | Mar-13 |
| 49 | First Chief Justice of the new Meghalaya High Court | T Meena Kumari | Mar-13 |
| 50 | First Chief Justice of the new Tripura High Court | Dr. D Y Patil | Mar-13 |
| 51 | Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) | MRP Rao | Mar-13 |
| 52 | Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) | M F Farooqui | Apr-13 |
| 53 | President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) | C. Shekhar Reddy | Apr-13 |
| 54 | Director (Personnel) of Electronics Corporation of India Ltd | V.S.B. Babu | Apr-13 |
| 55 | Secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) | Amarjit Singh | Apr-13 |
| 56 | Chairman Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) | Amarnath Sengupta | Apr-13 |
| 57 | President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) | Raninder Singh | Apr-13 |
| 58 | Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) | Amitava Bhattacharyya | Apr-13 |
| 59 | Vice Chairman of Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) for fiscal 2013-14 | P. Devadas | Apr-13 |
| 60 | Special Director General of CRPF | Aruna Bahuguna | Apr-13 |
| 61 | Secretary of Minority Affairs Ministry | Lalit K Panwar | Apr-13 |
| 62 | Home Secretary of India | Anil Goswami | Apr-13 |
| 63 | Chief Justice for High Court of Himachal Pradesh | Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar | Apr-13 |
| Others | |||
| 64 | Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) | S. Ramakrishnan | Jan-13 |
| 65 | Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) | M.C. Dathan | Jan-13 |
| 66 | Director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) | M.Y.S. Prasad | Jan-13 |
| 67 | Who has been appointed as the new Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) | P.R.Vasudeva Rao | Feb-13 |
| 68 | The President of India has appointed whom as Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi | Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty | Feb-13 |
| 69 | First non-American Editor of Time International | Bobby Ghosh | Mar-13 |
| 70 | 266th Pope | Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio | Mar-13 |
| 71 | Vice-President-Cum-President of Computer Society of India | H.R. Mohan | Apr-13 |
| 72 | President of Editors Guild of India | Narasimhan Ravi | Apr-13 |
| 73 | Chairman of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on population and Development | PJ Kurien | Apr-13 |
| Politics | |||
| 74 | Czech Republic’s first direct President | Milos Zeman | Jan-13 |
| 75 | New president of Bharatiya Janata Party | Rajnath Singh | Jan-13 |
| 76 | First Hindu member of the US House of Representatives | Tulsi Gabbard | Jan-13 |
| 77 | US secretary of state | John Kerry | Jan-13 |
| 78 | US President Barack Obama has nominated as the new U.S. interior secretary for looking after the huge energy reserves as well as the national parks | Sally Jewell | Feb-13 |
| 79 | US Defense Secretary by the US Senate | Chuck Hagel | Feb-13 |
| 80 | President of Ecuador for the 3rd term | Rafael Correa | Feb-13 |
| 81 | Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba | Miguel Diaz-Canel | Feb-13 |
| 82 | President of Cyprus | Nicos Anastasiades | Feb-13 |
| 83 | Chief Minister of Nagaland for the third consecutive term | Neiphiu Rio | Mar-13 |
| 84 | Chief minister of Meghalaya for a second straight term | Mukul Sangma | Mar-13 |
| 85 | Chief minister of Tripura for the record 5th Consecutive time | Manik Sarkar | Mar-13 |
| 86 | Governor of Nagaland | Ashwani Kumar | Mar-13 |
| 87 | Governor of Odhisa | S C Jamir | Mar-13 |
| 88 | Governor of Tripura | Devanand Konwar | Mar-13 |
| 89 | Governor of Bihar | D Y Patil | Mar-13 |
| 90 | President of Kenya | Uhuru Kenyatta | Mar-13 |
| 91 | Prime Minister of Nepal to head interim government | Khil Raj Regmi | Mar-13 |
| 92 | Prime Minister of Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu | Mar-13 |
| 93 | 20th Governor of Kerala | Nikhil Kumar | Mar-13 |
| 94 | President of Venezuela after death of Hugo Chavez | Nicolas Maduro | Apr-13 |
| 95 | 20th president of Bangladesh | Abdul Hamid | Apr-13 |
| 96 | Prime Minister of Italy | Enrico Letta | Apr-13 |
| 97 | Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for the second term | N N Vohra | Apr-13 |
| 98 | National President of Janata Dal (re-elected) | Sharad Yadav | Apr-13 |
| 99 | President of Italy | Giorgio Napolitano | Apr-13 |
| Sports | |||
| 100 | Chairman of the All India Football Federation’s technical committee | Baichung Bhutia | Mar-13 |
| 101 | Coach of the Junior Hockey Men’s National Team | Gregg Clark | Apr-13 |
| 102 | Managing Director of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) | Sunil Kumar | Apr-13 |
