Important Appointments 2020

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Important State Government appointments

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Important Appointments 2020

Important Appointments 2020

  1. Recently Appointed CMs

    • Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Singh Chauhan

    • Chief minister of Chhattisgarh: Bhupesh Baghel

    • Chief Minister of Tripura: Biplab Kumar Deb

    • Chief Minister of Jharkhand: Hemant Soren

    • Chief Minister of Mizoram: Zoramthanga

    • Chief Minister of Sikkim: Prem Singh Tamang

    • Chief Minister of Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray 
  2. Recently Appointed Governors

    • Lt. Governor of Jammu & Kashmir: Girish Chandra Murmu

    • Lt. Governor of Ladakh: Radha Krishna Mathur

    • Governor of Goa: Satya Pal Malik

    • Governor of Kerala: Arif Mohammed Khan

    • Governor of Bihar: Fagu Chauhan

    • Governor of Odisha: Professor Ganeshi Lal

    • Governor of UP: Anandiben Patel

    • Governor of Uttarakhand: Ba Rani Maurya

    • Governor of Rajasthan: Kalraj mishra

    • Governor of West Bengal: Jagdeep Dhankhar

    • Governor of Gujarat: Acharya Devvrat

    • Governor of Andhra Pradesh: Biswa Bhusan Harichandan

Important Government organizations related appointments 2020

Important Appointments 2020

    1. 15th Finance Commission Chairman: N K Singh

    2. Economic Affairs Secretary of India: Tarun Bajaj

    3. Defence Secretary of India: Dr. Ajay Kumar
    4. Finance secretary of India: Ajay Bhushan Pandey

    5. Home Secretary of India: Ajay Kumar Bhalla

    6. Cabinet Secretary of India: Rajiv Gauba

    7. Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy: Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi

    8. SEBI Chairman: Ajay Tyagi

    9. IRDAI Chairman: Subhash Chandra Khuntia

    10. Bombay Stock Exchange
      Shri S Ravi (Chairman)
      Ashish Kumar Chauhan (MD & CEO)
    11. National Stock Exchange:
      Girish Chandra Chaturvedi (Chairman)
      Mr. Vikram Limaye (MD & CEO)
    12. Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC): M. Ajit Kumar
    13. Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT): Pramod Chandra Mody

    14. Indu Bhushan: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission (ABNHPM).
    15. 47th Chief Justice of India: Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde

    16. Chairman of Indian Bank’s association: Rajnish Kumar

    17. Chairman of DRDO: G. Satheesh Reddy

    18. Chairman of ISRO: K Sivan

    19. Chairman of Lokpal: Pinaki Chandra Ghose

    20. Lok Sabha Speaker: OM Birla

    21. Chairman of NHRC (National Human Rights Commission): HL Dattu

    22. Chairman of national commission for women: Rekha Sharma

    23. Chairman of the National Commission for Backward Classes: Bhagwan Lal Sahni

    24. Current attorney general of India: K. K. Venugopal

    25. RBI Governor: Shaktikanta Das

    26. NABARD Chairman: Govinda Rajulu Chintala

    27. Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC): Arvind Saxena

    28. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India: Sunil Arora
  • T.S. Tirumurti has been appointed as the next Ambassador or Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. He will succeed Syed Akbaruddin as India’s Permanent Representative to the UN.
  • Sanjay Kothari: Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC).
  • The government has appointed Ch S S Mallikarjuna Rao as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Punjab National Bank (PNB).
  • The Central government reconstituted the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) under the Chairmanship of Bibek Debroy.
  • Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria: Chief of the Air Staff (CAS).
  • The Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. He was declared elected unopposed as the deadline for the withdrawal of nominations for the -poll ended on 19th August.
  • The World Bank Group announced that Anshula Kant, an Indian national, has been appointed as its next MD and CFO of world bank on 12 July.
  • Government of India, Canara Bank General Manager (GM) Sarada Kumar Hota assumed charge as the National Housing Bank (NHB) Managing Director It lasted for a period of three years.  He succeeds Sriram Kalyanaraman.
  • Admiral Karambir Singh: Chief of the Naval Staff
  • M.R.Kumar, the newly-appointed chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), has taken charge on 14th March. Mr.Kumar took over from Hemant Bhargava who had been the acting chairman since January 2019.
  • New Chairman of Economic Think Tank Finance and Policy (NIPFP): Urjit Patel

  • CEO of FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India): Arun Singhal

  • Chairman and Managing director of Air India: Rajiv Bansal
Important appointments 2020

Important appointments 2020

Important International Appointments 2020

International Appointments 2020

  • New Chief Executive Officer & President of Nokia: Pekka Lundmark

  • David Malpass: President of the World Bank
  • MD (Managing Director) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): Kristalina Georgieva
    Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova is a Bulgarian economist, who is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

  • Emperor of Japan: Naruhito
  • Sanna Marin: Prime Minister of Finland. At 34, Sanna Marin also becomes world’s youngest serving prime minister once takes office in the coming days.
  • Boris Johnson: Prime Minister of the UK
  • Zuzana Caputova sworn as Slovakia’s first female President.
  • Muhammadu Buhari sworn in for a second term as Nigeria’s president. He is a former military ruler, won 56 percent of the votes to defeat his main challenger, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the February election.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu elected as Israel’s Prime Minister
  • UK’s Finance Minister: Rishi Sunak
  • Mauritius Prime Minister: Pravind Jugnauth

  • New Prime Minister of Ireland: Micheal Martin
  • New Prime Minister of Srilanka: Mahinda Rajapaksa

  • New Chief of the European Central Bank: Christine Lagarde
important Appointments 2020

important Appointments 2020

Resignations

Resignations

  • Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft’s board. Microsoft did not announce any replacement for Gates on the board. Gates also announced that he would be stepping down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway. Since 2004, he has served as a director of Berkshire Hathaway.
  • Jet Airways Founders Naresh Goyal and wife Anita Goyal have stepped down from the board of the cash-strapped airline. With this, Naresh Goyal ceases to be Chairman.
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director Abidali Z Neemuchwala of Wipro Limited has decided to step down due to family commitments.
  • The Head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Roberto Azevedo has announced his resignation, a year before his term expires. He will step down on 31 August 2020.

Important Business Appointments 2020

Business Appointments

  • Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the chairperson of HCL Technologies and the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India. She is the only child of HCL’s founder, Shiv Nadar.
  • New CEO and MD of Wipro: Thierry Delaporte(important appointment 2020)
  • New CEO of Capgemini Group: Aiman Ezzat

  • Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive, the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC.
  • Sameer Aggarwal is appointed as CEO of Walmart India.
  • PepsiCo executive Laxman Narasimhan has been appointed as the chief executive officer of the British consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser. He will succeed Rakesh Kapoor.
  • Sanjiv Puri is appointed as the chairman of ITC. He became the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of ITC. He was appointed as a Managing Director of ITC in 2018 and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in February 2017.
  • Twitter appoints Manish Maheshwari as new India MD
  • Private sector lender City Union Bank reappointed N Kamakodi as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bank.

Important New And Old Appointments 2020

Company Executive Title Since Updated
Accenture Julie Sweet CEO 2019 31/01/2019
Aditya Birla Group Kumar Birla Chairman 1995 01/10/2018
Adobe Systems Shantanu Narayen Chairman, president and CEO 2007 01/10/2018
Agenus Garo H. Armen Founder, chairman, CEO 1994 01/10/2018
Airbus Guillaume Faury CEO 2012 14/11/2017
Alibaba Daniel Zhang CEO 2015 01/10/2018
Amazon.com Jeff Bezos Founder, President, CEO and chairman 1994 01/10/2018
AMD Lisa Su CEO and president 2014 01/10/2018
American Express Stephen Squeri Chairman and CEO 2018 01/10/2018
American Airlines Group Doug Parker Chairman and CEO 2013 01/10/2018
Anthem Inc. Joseph R. Swedish Chairman, president and CEO 2013 01/10/2018
Apple Inc. Tim Cook CEO 2011 01/10/2018
Arcelor Mittal Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Chairman and CEO 2006 01/10/2018
AT&T John Stankey CEO 2020 19/11/2020
BAE Systems Charles Woodburn Chief Executive Officer 2008 01/10/2018
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Tapan Singhel MD and CEO 2012 01/10/2018
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Carlos Torres Vila Chairman and CEO 2015 01/10/2018
Bank of America Brian Moynihan Chairman and CEO 2009 01/10/2018
Barclays Jes Staley Group Chief Executive 2015 01/10/2018
Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett Chairman and CEO 1970 01/10/2018
Best Buy Hubert Joly Chairman and CEO 2012 01/10/2018
Bharti Enterprises Sunil Bharti Mittal Founder and chairman 1985 01/10/2018
Blackstone Group Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and co-founder 1985 15/11/2017
BHP Billiton Andrew Mackenzie CEO 2013 15/11/2017
BMW Oliver zipse Chairman of the board of management 2020 15/11/2017
Boeing Dave Calhoun Chairman, president and CEO 2020 2015-2020
Boston Consulting Group Rich Lesser President and CEO 2013 15/11/2017
BP Bob Dudley Group Chief Executive 2010 15/11/2017
Campbell Soup Company Denise Morrison President and CEO 2011 14/11/2017
Canonical Ltd. Mark Shuttleworth Founder and CEO 2017 14/11/2017
Capgemini Paul Hermelin Chairman and CEO 2012 14/11/2017
Capital One Financial Richard Fairbank Founder, chairman and CEO 1988 14/11/2017
Caterpillar Inc. Jim Umpleby CEO 2017 14/11/2017
Chubb Limited Evan G. Greenberg Chairman and CEO 2004 01/10/2018
Cisco Systems Chuck Robbins CEO 2015 14/11/2017
Citigroup Michael Corbat CEO 2012 14/11/2017
Coca-Cola James Quincey Chairman and CEO 2008 14/11/2017
Cognizant Brian Humphries CEO 2019 14/11/2017
Comcast Brian L. Roberts Chairman and CEO 2002 14/11/2017
Credit Suisse Tidjane Thiam CEO 2015 14/11/2017
Crown Worldwide Group James E. Thompson Chairman and founder 1965 14/11/2017
Daimler AG Ola Källenius Chairman of the board of management 2019 08/08/2020
Dell Michael Dell Chairman and CEO 1984 14/11/2017
Deutsche Bank Christian Sewing CEO 2018 19/12/2018
Deutsche Post Frank Appel CEO 2008 14/11/2017
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Roland Dickey Jr. CEO 2016 28/05/2019
Dow Chemical Company Edward D. Breen CEO 2015 14/11/2017
Dr. Reddy’s G. V. Prasad Co-chairman and CEO 2001 14/11/2017
Eastman Kodak Jeff Clarke CEO 2014 14/11/2017
eBay Devin Wenig President and CEO 2015 14/11/2017
Electronic Arts Andrew Wilson CEO 2013 14/11/2017
Ericsson Börje Ekholm President and CEO 2017 14/11/2017
Exxon Mobil Darren Woods Chairman and CEO 2017 14/11/2017
EY Carmine Di Sibio Global chairman and CEO 2019 14/11/2017
Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Chairman and CEO 2004 14/11/2017
FedEx Frederick W. Smith Chairman and CEO 1971 14/11/2017
Fiat S.p.A. Sergio Marchionne CEO 2004 14/11/2017
Fidelity Investments Abigail Johnson Chairman, president and CEO 2014 14/11/2017
Ford Motor Company James Hackett President and CEO 2017 14/11/2017
Foxconn Electronics Inc Terry Gou Chairman and CEO 1974 14/11/2017
Fox Corporation Lachlan Murdoch Executive chairman and CEO 2019 05/03/2020
FUBU Daymond John Founder, president and CEO 1992 14/11/2017
General Dynamics Phebe Novakovic Chairman and CEO 2014 14/11/2017
General Electric H. Lawrence Culp Jr. Chairman and CEO 2018 01/10/2018
General Motors Mary T. Barra Chairman and CEO 2014 14/11/2017
GlaxoSmithKline Emma Walmsley CEO 2017 13/11/2017
Goldman Sachs David M. Solomon CEO 2018 09/05/2019
Google Sundar Pichai CEO 2015 13/11/2017
GMA Network Felipe Gozon Chairman and CEO 2000 13/11/2017
GVK Group Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy Chairman and MD 1992 13/11/2017
HCL Technologies C Vijayakumar President and CEO 2016 13/11/2017
Henderson Land Development Lee Shau Kee Chairman and MD 1976 13/11/2017
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Meg Whitman CEO 2015 13/11/2017
Honeywell Darius Adamczyk Chairman, President, and CEO 2017 13/11/2017
HP Hood LLC John A. Kaneb Chairman, president and CEO 1995 13/11/2017
HSBC Noel Quinn Group CEO 2019 13/11/2017
IBM Arvind Krishna Chairman, president and CEO 2020 06/04/2020
IMS Group Dikesh Malhotra President and CEO 2012 11/11/2018
Infosys Salil Parekh Interim CEO and MD 2018 20/02/2018
Intel Robert H. Swan CEO 2013 13/11/2017
InterCall Scott Etzler President and CEO 1999 13/11/2017
J.Crew Millard Drexler CEO 2017 13/11/2017
Jefferies Group Richard B. Handler Chairman and CEO 2001 13/11/2017
JP Morgan Chase James Dimon Chairman and CEO 2004 13/11/2017
Kaplan, Inc. Andrew S. Rosen Chairman and CEO 2002 13/11/2017
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Pieter Elbers CEO & President 2000
Koch Industries Inc. Charles G. Koch Chairman and CEO 1967 13/11/2017
Land Securities Robert Noel CEO 2012 13/11/2017
Las Vegas Sands Sheldon Adelson Chairman and CEO 1988 13/11/2017
L Brands Les Wexner Founder, chairman and CEO 1963 02/02/2018
Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson Chairman, president and CEO 2013 13/11/2017
Marks and Spencer Steve Rowe CEO 2016 13/11/2017
MasterCard Ajaypal Singh Banga CEO 1997 17/03/2019
McDonald’s Chris kempczinski President and CEO 2019 13/11/2017
McKinsey Kevin Sneader Global managing partner 2009 13/11/2017
Mesa Air Group Jonathan Ornstein Chairman and CEO 1998 13/11/2017
MetLife Steven A. Kandarian Chairman, president and CEO 2011 13/11/2017
MGA Entertainment Isaac Larian CEO 1979 13/11/2017
Microsoft Satya Nadella CEO 2014 13/11/2017
MicroStrategy Michael J. Saylor Chairman and CEO 1989 08/02/2018
Morgan Stanley James P. Gorman Chairman and CEO 2010 13/11/2017
Mossy Oak Toxey Haas Founder and CEO 1986 13/11/2017
Mozilla Corporation Chris Beard CEO 2014 13/11/2017
National Amusements Sumner Redstone Chairman and CEO 1967 12/11/2017
NBCUniversal Jeff Shell CEO 2020 02/03/2020
News Corp Robert James Thomson CEO 2013 12/11/2017
New York Times Company Mark Thompson President and CEO 2012 12/11/2017
NIIT Vijay K. Thadani Vice chairman and MD 1981 12/11/2017
Nike Mark Parker Chairman and CEO 2006 12/11/2017
Nokia Pekka Lundmark President and CEO 2020 16/08/2020
Novartis Vasant Narasimhan CEO 2017 12/11/2017
Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima Representative director and president 2015 12/11/2017
Oath Inc. Tim Armstrong CEO 2009 15/11/2017
Oracle Corporation Safra Catz CEO 2014 12/11/2017
Oracle Corporation Mark Hurd CEO 2014 12/11/2017
PepsiCo Ramon Laguarta CEO 2018 2017-11-12[103]
Pfizer Ian Read Chairman and CEO 2010 12/11/2017
Polo Ralph Lauren Patrice Louvet President and CEO 2017 12/11/2017
Procter & Gamble David S. Taylor President and CEO 2015 12/11/2017
Prudential Financial, Inc. John Strangfeld Chairman and CEO 2008 12/11/2017
Qantas Alan Joyce CEO and MD 2008 12/11/2017
Reliance Group Anil Ambani Chairman 2006 12/11/2017
Reliance Industries Limited Mukesh Ambani Chairman and MD 2002 12/11/2017
Renault Luca de Meo CEO 2005 12/11/2017
Riovic Phiwa Nkambule CEO 2015 19/07/2018
Royal Bank of Canada David I. McKay President and CEO 2014 12/11/2017
Royal Bank of Scotland Ross McEwan CEO 2013 12/11/2017
Royal Dutch Shell Ben van Beurden CEO 2014 12/11/2017
Ryanair Michael O’Leary CEO 1994 12/11/2017
S&P Global Douglas L. Peterson President & CEO 2013 01/10/2018
S. C. Johnson & Son Herbert Fisk Johnson III Chairman and CEO 2004 12/11/2017
The Salvation Army Brian Peddle General and CEO 2018 13/08/2018
Samsung Oh-Hyun Kwon Chairman and CEO 2012 12/11/2017
SAP AG Christian Klein CEO 2019 18/11/2019
SAS Institute James Goodnight CEO 1976 12/11/2017
Schneider Electric Jean-Pascal Tricoire Chairman and CEO 2006 12/11/2017
Siemens Joe Kaeser President and CEO 2013 12/11/2017
Simon Property Group David Simon Chairman and CEO 1995 12/11/2017
Singtel Chua Sock Koong Group CEO 2007 12/11/2017
SoftBank Masayoshi Son Chairman and CEO 1981 12/11/2017
Solera Holdings Tony Aquila Chairman and CEO 2005 12/11/2017
Southwest Airlines Gary C. Kelly Chairman and CEO 2008 12/11/2017
Sonic Corporation J. Clifford Hudson Chairman, CEO and president 1995 12/11/2017
Starbucks Kevin Johnson President and CEO 2017 11/11/2017
Sun Hung Kai Properties Raymond Kwok Chairman and MD 2011 11/11/2017
Sun Pharmaceutical Dilip Shanghvi MD 1983 11/11/2017
SunTrust Banks William H. Rogers Jr. Chairman and CEO 2011 11/11/2017
Syntel Rakesh Khanna CEO and president 2016 11/11/2017
Target Corporation Brian Cornell Chairman and CEO 2014 11/11/2017
Tata Consultancy Services Rajesh Gopinathan CEO and MD 2016 11/11/2017
TCL Corporation Li Dongsheng CEO & Founder 1981
Telstra Andy Penn CEO 2015 11/11/2017
Temasek Holdings Ho Ching CEO 2002 11/11/2017
Tesco Dave Lewis Group CEO 2014 11/11/2017
Tesla, Inc. Elon Musk CEO 2008 11/11/2018
Tod’s Diego Della Valle MD 1970 11/11/2017
The Travelers Companies Alan D. Schnitzer Chairman and CEO 2015 11/11/2017
Toyota Akio Toyoda President and director 2009 11/11/2017
T. Rowe Price Bill Stromberg President and CEO 2016 24/02/2017
Twitter Jack Dorsey CEO 2006 11/11/2017
United Airlines Oscar Munoz CEO 2015 11/11/2017
UBS ralph hamers Group CEO 2020 11/11/2017
Valeant Pharmaceuticals Joseph C. Papa Chairman and CEO 2016 11/11/2017
Verizon Communications Hans Vestberg Chairman and CEO 2018 31/03/2019
ViacomCBS Robert Bakish President and CEO 2019 02/03/2020
Vodafone Vittorio Colao CEO 2008 11/11/2017
Volkswagen Group Herbert Diess Chairman of the Management Board/CEO 2018 11/11/2017
Vulcan Inc. Bill Hilf CEO 2016 11/11/2017
The Walt Disney Company Bob Chapek CEO 2020 02/03/2020
Walgreens Boots Alliance Stefano Pessina Executive vice chairman and CEO 2015 11/11/2017
Wal-Mart Doug McMillon President and CEO 2014 11/11/2017
Warner Bros. Ann Sarnoff Chairwoman and CEO 2019 10/10/2019
WarnerMedia Jason Kilar CEO 2020 19/11/2020
Wells Fargo Timothy J. Sloan CEO and president 2016 11/11/2017
Whole Foods Market John Mackey CEO 1980 11/11/2017
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Laura J. Alber President and CEO 2010 11/11/2017
Wipro Technologies Limited Abidali Neemuchwala CEO 2016 11/11/2017
Yum! Brands Greg Creed CEO 2015 11/11/2017
Zillow Group Rich Barton CEO 2019 10/12/2018
Zoom Video Communications Eric Yuan President, Chairman and CEO 2011 12/10/2020

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