Notable Recent Appointments

06 Jun 2022

Person	Brief Description
Yoon Suk-yeol	He recently replaced Moon Jae-in to become the 13th President of South Korea.
Katalin Novak	On 10^th May 2022, she took office as the first-ever female president of Hungary.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.	He won presidential election of the Philippines and will succeed Rodrigo Duterte.
Elisabeth Borne	She was appointed as France’s new prime minister, becoming the second woman after Édith Cresson, who served from 1991 to 1992.
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	He has been appointed as the President of the UAE after the demise of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Jose Ramos-Horta	Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was sworn in as president of East Timor - Asia’s youngest country.
Rajiv Kumar	He was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner replacing Sushil Chandra who demitted office on May 14.
S L Thaosen	He has been appointed as the Director-General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
Dr. Manik Saha	He replaced Biplab Kumar Deb and became the 11th Chief Minister of Tripura.
Justice Pradip Mohanty	He has been appointed as the Acting Chairperson, Lokpal by President Ram Nath Kovind after Justice Pinaki Chandra Bose’s term ended.
Suresh Bhai Kotak	He has been appointed as the Chairman of the Cotton Council of India –that was formed recently by the Union Govt.
Rajesh Gera	He has been appointed as the Director-General of National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Anwar Hussain Shaik	An Indian Government Officer has been made the chair of the World Trade Organisation’s Committee on Technical Barriers on Trade.
Devendra Kumar Sharma	The Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission Chairman, who is a dam expert, has been elected as Chairman of the Asia Pacific Group of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD).
Naveen Srivastava	He has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Nepal.
A. R. Dave	He will head the Supreme Court appointed 3-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) to manage affairs of All India Football Federation (AIFF).
Natarajan Sundar	He has been appointed as MD and CEO of the bad bank — National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited.
Ranjana Desai	Retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Desai will head the five-member committee formed by the Uttarakhand government for preparing a draft on implementation of uniform civil code in the state.