Current Affairs is an integral part of the General Awareness section of most of the competitive exams. The latest appointments are one of the important topics of all the Competitive exams. In this section, questions related to the appointments, are asked in Government exams.
Aspirants preparing for the upcoming Government exams like UPSC, Railway exam, SSC, etc. can find this article helpful for the current affairs section. This article contains the various appointments for the year 2022 and 2021.
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List of all the Appointment of 2022
| Name | Appointed as |
|---|---|
| Alok Kumar Choudhary | Managing Director of State Bank of India |
| Krishna Srinivasan | Director of the Asia and Pacific Department |
| Mayank Kumar Agrawal | Chief Executive Officer, Prasar Bharati |
| Amandeep Singh Gill | UN Chief’s envoy on technology |
| N J Ojha | MGNREGA Ombudsman |
| R Subramaniakumar | MD & CEO of RBL Bank |
| Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai | Head of the Press Council of India (PCI) |
| Hamza Abdi Barre | Prime Minister of Somalia |
| Justice Vipin Sanghi | Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court |
| Justice Ujjal Bhuyan | Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court |
| Justice Amjad Ahtesham Sayed | Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court |
| Justice Shinde Sambhaji Shiwaji | Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court |
| Justice Rashmin M Chhaya | Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court |
| Justice Satish Chandra Sharma | Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court |
| S Ruchira Kamboj | Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations |
| Gustavo Petro | Colombia’s first left-wing president |
| Dinkar Gupta | Director-General of the National Investigation Agency |
| Parameswaran Iyer | Niti Aayog CEO |
| Anil Khanna | President of the Indian Olympic Association |
| Mohammed Jalood | President of the International Weightlifting Federation |
| Sangeeta Singh | Additional Chairman of CBDT chairperson |
| Rajiv Kumar | Chief election commissioner of India |
| Ranil Wickremensighe | Appointed as the Prime Minster of Sri Lanka. |
| Nand Mulchandani | Appointed as the CTO of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
| Tarun Kapoor | Appointed as advisor to PM Narendra Modi |
| Sangeeta Singh | Appointed as chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). |
| Lt Gen BS Raju | Appointed as Vice Chief of Indian Army |
| Shehbaz Sharif | Appointed as the new Prime Minster of Pakistan |
| Harsh Shringla | Chief Coordinator for the coming G20 Summit which will be hosted by India in 2023 |
| Urjit Patel | Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank |
| Shri. S. Iqbal Singh | Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities |
| Manoj Soni | Chairman of UPSC |
| Lt General Manoj Pande | New Army Chief |
| Shanti Sethi | New Defense Advisor to Smt. Kamala Harris |
| Vishwas Patel | Chairman of Payments Council of India |
| Dr. S Raju | Director-General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) |
| Arunabha Ghosh | UN Chief to High-Level expert group on net-zero emissions commitments |
| Vinay Mohan Kwatra | New Foreign Secretary |
| Babita Singh | New Global Peace Ambassador 2022 |
| Ajay Kumar Sood | Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India |
| Krishnan Ramanujam | Nasscom Chairperson for 2022-23 |
| Debasish Panda | Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) |
| Sumant Sinha | President of ASSOCHAM |
| T Raja Kumar | President of the Financial Action Task Force |
| Nitin Chugh | Deputy Managing Director of SBI |
| Madhabi Puri Buch | First woman chief of SEBI |
| Emma Terho | Chairperson of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes |
| G Ashok Kumar | India’s first national maritime security coordinator |
| Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas | IMF’s Chief Economist |
| MR Kumar | Chairman of LIC |
| Ravi Mittal | Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) |
| Sonali Singh | Controller General of Accounts (CGA) |
| M Jagadesh Kumar | Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) |
| GA Srinivasa Murthy | Director of Defence Research and Development Laboratory of the DRDO |
| Prof Dinesh Prasad Saklani | Director of NCERT |
| S. Kishore | Chairman of the Staff Selection Commission |
| Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari | Chief Justice of the Madras High Court |
| Vineet Joshi | Chairman of CBSE |
| Sanjay Malhotra | Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) |
| VS Pathania | Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard |
| Alka Mittal | 1st woman Chairman and MD (CMD) of ONGC |
| G Asok Kumar | Director-General of National Mission for Clean Ganga, Ministry of Jal Shakti |
| Zhang Ming | New Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) |
| Urjit Patel | Vice President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) |
| Haitham Al Ghais | Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
| Dr. S Somanath | Chairman and Space Secretary of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
| Pushp Kumar Joshi | Chairman and MD of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) |
| Justice Ayesh Malik | First Female judge of the Pakistan Supreme Court |
| Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran | New Chief Economic Adviser |
| Sambit Patra | Chairman of India Tourism Development Corporation |
| Gita Gopinath | IMF’s Deputy Managing Director |
| Alka Upadhyaya | Chairperson of National Highways Authority of India |
| Sanjiv Mehta | President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) |
| Catherine Russell | Head of UN children’s agency UNICEF |
| Atul Dinkar Rane | New CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace Limited |
| Harjinder Singh | India’s Chef de Mission 2022 Winter Olympics |
| Radhika Jha | CEO of Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) |
Latest appointment from October to December 2021
Name | Appointed as |
Alka Upadhyaya | Appointed as the chairperson of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) |
Rahul Dravid | Head Coach of Indian men’s cricket team by BCCI |
G Ashok Kumar | Appointed as DG, Mission for Clean Ganga |
Arun Chawla | New director-general of Industry chamber Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) |
CS Venkatakrishnan | CEO of Barclays |
Justice Ashok Bhushan | Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal |
Fumio Kishida | Prime Minister of Japan |
Satya Narayan Pradhan | DG of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) |
Daniel Brul | Goodwill Ambassador for the UN World Food Programme (UNWFP) |
Professor Bimal Patel | International Law Commission for a tenure of five-year commencing 1st Jan 2023. |
Pramod Chandra Mody | Secretary-General Rajya Sabha |
Sourav Ganguly | Chairman of the ICC men's Cricket Committee |
VVS Laxman | Head of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) |
Geoff Allardice | CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC). |
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah | Appointed as new PM of Kuwait |
P.S. Sreedharan Pillai | Governor of Goa |
Rajnish Kumar | Independent non-executive director of Hero MotoCorp |
Vivek Johri | Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) |
Parag Agrawal | CEO of Twitter |
Admiral R Hari Kumar | New Chief of the Indian Navy |
Harshwanti Bisht | First woman President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation |
Padmaja Chunduru | MD and CEO of National Securities Depositories (NSDL) |
Najla Bouden Romdhane | First-ever Female Prime Minister of Tunisia |
Abiy Ahmed | Prime Minister of Ethiopia |
E.R. Sheikh | First Director-General of the Ordnance Directorate (Co-ordination and Services) |
Justice Rajesh Bindal | Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court |
Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi | Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court |
Justice Aravind Kumar | Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court |
Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra | Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court |
Justice Ranjit V. More | Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court |
Justice Satish Chandra Sharma | Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court |
Justice R.V. Malimath | Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court |
Justice Prakash Srivastava | Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court |
Amit Khare | Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
Sajjan Jindal | Chairman of the World Steel Association (WSA) |
Ritesh Chauhan | CEO of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana |
Amitabh Chaudhry | Managing Director & CEO of Axis Bank |
PK Garg | CEO of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) |
Dame Sandra Mason | First-ever president of Barbados |
Harsha Bhupendra Bangari | MD of the Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank) |
Prativa Mohapatra | Vice president and managing director for Adobe India |
Justice Indu Malhotra | Ombudsman cum Ethics Officer of Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) |
Air Marshal V. R Chaudhari | Chief of Air Staff |
Rajiv Aggarwal | Facebook India (grievance officer) |
Aveek Sarkar | Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI) |
Lt.G Gurbirpal Singh | 34th Director-General of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) |
Appointment from April to September 2021
Name | Appointed as |
Bhupendra Patel | Chief Minister of Gujarat |
MS Dhoni | Mentor for Team India in the T20 World Cup |
Pankaj Kumar singh | DG of Border Security force (BSF) |
JB Mohapatra | Chairman of CBDT ( Central Board of Direct Taxes ) |
Dr. PPK Ramacharyulu | Secretary General of Rajya Sabha |
Sandeep Bakhshi | MD & CEO of ICICI Bank by RBI |
Deepak Das | Controller General of Accounts (CGA) |
Mansukh Mandaviya | Chairperson of the Stop TB Partnership Board |
Priyanka Chopra | Chairperson of Jio MAMI |
Shanti Lal Jain | MD and CEO of Indian Bank |
Apurva Chandra | Chairman of Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO) |
La Ganesan | Governor of Manipur |
Thawarchand Gehlot | Governor of Karnataka |
Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati | Governor of Mizoram |
Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar | Governor of Himachal Pradesh |
P.S. Sreedharan Pillai | Governor of Goa |
Satyadev Narayan Arya | Governor of Tripura |
Ramesh Bais | Governor of Jharkhand |
Bandaru Dattatraya | Governor of Haryana |
Pushkar Singh Dhami | Chief MInister of Uttarakhand |
Vinay Prakash | Grievance officer of Twitter |
Piyush Goyal | Leader of House in Rajya Sabha |
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Deputy leader of Rajya Sabha |
Aramane Giridhar | Chairman of NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) |
Sher Bahadur Deuba | Nepal’s Prime Minister |
Basavaraj Bommai | Chief Minister Karnataka |
Rakesh Asthana | Delhi Police commissioner |
Paresh B Lal | Grievance officer of WhatsApp India |
Arun Mishra | Chairperson of NHRC ( National Human Rights Commission ) |
Ranjitsinh Disale | Education Advisor to world Bank |
Anup Chandra Pandey | Election Commissioner of India |
Spoorthi Priya | Grievance Officer of Facebook India |
Abdulla Shahid | Presidency of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) |
Naftali Bennett | 13th Prime Minister of Israel |
Bill Nelson | 14th Administrator of NASA |
Dr Tadang Minu | Member of International Boxing Association |
Karnam Malleswari | Vice-Chancellor of Delhi Sport university |
Parveen Sinha | Director of CBI |
T Rabi Sankar | Deputy Governor of RBI |
Mamata Banerjee | Chief Minister of West Bengal |
MK Stalin | Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
N Rangasamy Sworn | Chief Minister of Puducherry |
Himanta Biswa Sarma | Chief Minister of Assam |
Ramesh Powar | Head Coach of Indian Women's Cricket Team |
Kuldeep Singh | Chief NIA ( National Investigation Agency ) |
Rekha Sharma | Chairperson of the National Commission for Woman (NCW) |
Important Appointment 2021
Name | Appointed as |
Sushil Chandra | 24th Chief Election Commissioner of India |
Urjit Patel | Additional director of Britannia |
Virat Kohli | Digit Insurance brand ambassador |
Shabir Khandwawala | New BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit chief |
Tarun Bajaj | New Revenue Secretary under the Ministry of Finance |
Justice N V Ramana | Appointed as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) |
Chintan Vaishnav | Mission Director of Atal Innovation Mission |
S Ramann | Chairman and MD of (SIDBI) |
Matam Venkata Rao | MD and CEO of the Central Bank of India |
Pramod Chandra Mody | Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) |
Jaideep Bhatnagar | Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau (PIB) |
Kuldeep Singh | DG of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) |
Mary Kom | Chairperson of AIBA Champion and Veterans Committee |
G R Chintala | Chairman of Asia Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA) |
Ligia Noronha | Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
Dr Vivek Murthy | Surgeon General under US President Biden’s administration |
Tirath Singh Rawat | Chief Minister of Uttarakhand |
Dr GP Samanta | Chief Statistician of India |
Anurag Thakur | Captain in the Territorial Army |
Thomas Bach | President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) |
Girish Chandra Murmu | Chairman of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations |
Dr Ajay Mathur | Director-General of International Solar Alliance (ISA) |
M A Ganapathy | Director-General of the National Security Guard |
Ajinkya Rahane | Brand Ambassador for NeoGrowth Credit Pvt Ltd |
Samia Suluhu Hassan | First Woman President of Tanzania |
Mark Rutte | Prime Minister of the Netherland for the 4th term |
Sanjeev Kumar | Chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) |
Atish Chandra | Chairman and MD of Food Corporation of India (FCI) |
Saurabh Garg | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) |
Subhash Chandra Khuntia | Chairman of IRDAI |
Dushyant Chautala | President of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) |
Vijay Sampla | Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) |
Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan | Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry |
Ajai Malhotra | Chairperson of the United Nations Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council |
Ajay Mathur | Director-General of International Solar Alliance (ISA) |
Sridhar Vembu | National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) |
Ayesha Aziz | India’s Youngest Female Pilot |
Ajay Singh | President of Boxing Federation of India (BFI) |