Thierry Delaporte
- Thierry Delaporte has been appointed as the new CEO and MD of Wipro.
- He took charge on June 1.
Sandip Mukund Pradhan
- Sandip Mukund Pradhan has been appointed as the Director-General (DG) of Sports Authority of India (SAI).
Marcos Prado Troyjo
- Marcos Prado Troyjo has been elected as the new President of the New Development Bank (NDB).
- He will succeed Indian banker K V Kamath.
- Also, SBI’s Anil Kishore has been appointed as the vice-president of NDB.
Narinder Batra
- Narinder Batra has been appointed as a member of the Olympic Channel Commission.
- He is the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
Rajesh Bhushan
- Rajesh Bhushan has been appointed the head of an 11 member high-level committee to suggest reforms in the country's drug regulatory system for the faster drug approval process.
- Rajesh Bhushan is the Officer on Special Duty to the Union health minister.
Carmen Reinhart
- Carmen Reinhart has been named as the new Vice President (VP) and chief economist of the World Bank.
Jahnabi Phookan
- Jahnabi Phookan has been appointed as the new National President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Ladies Organization (FLO).
- She is the 37th national president and she succeeded Harjinder Kaur Talwar.
Abhas Jha
- Indian Economist Abhas Jha has been appointed to a key position on Climate change and disaster management in South Asia.
- He has been appointed by the World Bank.
Govinda Rajulu Chintala
- Govinda Rajulu Chintala has been appointed as the new Chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
- He has been appointed by the appointments committee of the union cabinet.
- He has succeeded Harsh Kumar Bhanwala.
Dilip Oommen
- Dilip Oommen has been appointed as the new President of Indian Steel Association (ISA).
- His tenure will be for two years.
- He has succeeded T V Narendran.
Moeketsi Majoro
- Moeketsi Majoro sworn in as the new president of Lesotho.
- He has succeeded Thomas Motsoahae Thabane.
Zubair Iqbal
- Zubair Iqbal has been appointed as the new Managing Director (MD) of Jammu and Kashmir Bank.
- His tenure will be of 3 years.
- Zubair is the senior vice president of HDFC bank.
Manoj Ahuja
- Manoj Ahuja has been appointed as the new Chief of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
- Manoj is an IAS officer and his appointment as CBSE Chief was approved by the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet.
Akhil Kumar
- Akhil Kumar has been re-inducted into the Disciplinary Panel of National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).
- Akhil is a former Commonwealth Games gold-winning Indian boxer.
- Earlier, Akhil was a part of the panel from 2017 to 2019.
Narinder Batra
- Narinder Batra will remain as the president of International Hockey Federation (FIH) till May 2021.
- His tenure was to end in October 2020.
Neeraj Dhawan
- Neeraj Dhawan has been appointed as the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of the Yes Bank.
- His tenure will be of 3 years.
- He has succeeded Ashish Agarwal.
Dia Mirza
- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has extended the term of Dia Mirza as the National Goodwill Ambassador for another two years.
- Now, the Bollywood actress will be the ambassador till the end of 2022.
Mustafa Al Kadhimi
- Mustafa Al Kadhimi was sworn in as the 6th Prime Minister of Iraq.
- He has succeeded Adel Abdul Mahdi.
Manisha Singh
- Indian-American diplomat Manisha Singh has been nominated as the US envoy to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) by the US President Donald Trump.
- At present, Manisha is the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs at the State Department.
Tarun Bajaj
- Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj has been appointed as a director on the central board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
- He has succeeded Atanu Chakraborty.
- Bajaj is an IAS officer of 1988 batch.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
- Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been re-appointed as the chairperson of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
- He was reappointed by the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
D P S Negi
- D P S Negi has assumed charge as Director General (DG) of Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
- He has replaced BN Nanda.
Ashok Michael Pinto
- Ashok Michael Pinto has been nominated as a representative to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) by the US President Donald Trump.
- IBRD is the lending arm of the World Bank.
- Pinto is an Indian-American lawyer.
Shobhana Narasimhan
- Professor Shobhana Narasimha has been elected as an International Honorary Member to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
- Shobhana is the head of the Computational Nanoscience group from the Theoretical Science Unit (TSU) at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).
