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1. Subir Vithal Gokarn - Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2. Justice Ajit Prakash Shah - Ethics of...

IMPORTANT NEW APPOINTMENTS (INDIA) -2015-16

1. Subir Vithal Gokarn- Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
2. Justice Ajit Prakash Shah - Ethics officer (ombudsman) at Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
3. Navtej Singh Sarna -Indian High Commissioner to United Kingdom (UK)
4. Justice T S Thakur 43rd Chief Justice of India
5. Deepak Singhal- Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India.
6. Harshavardhan Neotia - President of FICCI. Note: He will succeed Jyotsna Suri
7. Nitish Kumar- Chief Minister of Bihar (Fifth Time)
8. V Raja Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Philips India
9. Vijay Keshav Gokhale- India’s Ambassador to China. Note: He will replace Ashok Kantha
10. Zarin Daruwala- India’s Chief Executive Officer at Standard Chartered Bank
11. Syed Akbaruddin- Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
12. Sunil Kanoria- President, ASSOCHAM. Note: He succeeded Rana Kapoor.
13. V Shanmuganthan- 17th Governor of Manipur
14. Dr Anup K Pujari- Chairman and Managing Director of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
15. Sriram Venkataraman- Chief Finance Officer (CFO), Flipkart
16. Ashish Bahuguna- Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FSSAI
17. Sekhar Basu-Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
18. Alkesh Sharma- CEO and MD of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corp
19. Tapan Ray- Board of Securities and Exchange Board of India
20. Alok Rawat  First male person to be appointed as member of National Commission for Women (NCW)
21. Vijay Kumar Malhotra- President ,All India Council of Sports
22. Shaktikanta Das- Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
23. Najib Shah- Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), apex body on Indirect Taxes
24. P K Gupta- Managing Director, State Bank of India
25. Tarvinder Singh Bhasin- Chairman of Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) of India.
26. Manpreet Vohra- India’s Ambassador to Afghanistan
27. Bhushan Kumar Bansal- Sixth member of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)
28. Sharad Kumar- Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA)
29. Alok Shekhar- India’s representative in the council of Interantional Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)
30. J Manjula Appointed the new Director General (DG - Electronics & Communications Systems or ECS)
31. Ramesh Chand-Appointed as new member of the Niti Aayog.
32. Hormusji N Cama-Chairman of Press Trust of India
33. Sourav Ganguly President of Cricket Association of Bengal
34. Hrushikesh Senapaty- Director of National Council of Educational Research Training (NCERT)
35. Christopher Thomas-Arbitrator for resolving the Rs. 10247 crore tax dispute and London-listed Cairn Energy