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 2023-2022.
New Appointment in India 2023
New appointment in India 2023, In this part of the blog I will be given you all the important appointments in India.
It has been seen that recent appointments are a very important section of current affairs. Examiners like to ask questions from this topic.
Here is the table containing all the important appointments in 2023. Check this blog for regular updates of all the new appointments.
| Name | Appointed as |
|---|---|
| Vo Van Thuong | President of Vietnam |
| Shailesh Pathak | Secretary General of FICCI |
| Rajesh Malhotra | Principal director general of Press Information Bureau |
| Sumant Kathpalia | MD and CEO of IndusInd bank |
| M Jagannath | Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) |
| Shreya Ghodawat | Indian ambassador of She changes |
| Ashwani Kumar | MD and CEO of UCO Bank |
| S.S. Dubey | Controller General of Accounts |
| Tejal Mehta | Justice of a district court in US |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Hand Wash Ambassador |
| Arun Subramanian | American judge at New York Court |
| Virat Kohli | Brand Ambassador Of Luxor |
| Lalit Kumar Gupta | CMD of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) |
| Salima Tete | AHF Athletes Ambassador |
| Ranveer Singh | Brand Ambassador Star Sports and Pepsi |
| BVR Subrahmanyam | New CEO of NITI Aayog |
| Ruchira Kamboj | Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations |
| Ayushmann Khurrana | National Ambassador of UNICEF |
| Harmanpreet Kaur | Brand Ambassador of Sports Brand Puma India |
| Ranbir Kapoor | Brand Ambassador of Myntra |
| K Satyanarayana Raju | Canara Bank’s MD and CEO |
| Neil Mohan | CEO of YouTube |
| Lt. Gen. MV Suchindra Kumar | Army Vice Chief |
| Lalithalakshmi | Director in the Prime Minister’s Office |
| DG Sujoy Lal Thaosen | Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) |
| Maithili Thakur | State Icon for Bihar by the Election Commission (EC) |
| A.C. Charania | New Chief Technologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Pankaj Kumar Singh | Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) |
| Chris Hipkins | New Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| Prasoon Josh | Brand Ambassador of the Uttarakhand Government |
| Hansraj Gangaram Ahir | Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) |
| Meghna Ahlawat | President of the Table Tennis Federation of India |
| Kamlesh Mehta | Secretary General of the Table Tennis Federation of India |
| Dr. Jeremy Farrar | Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Mette Frederiksen | Prime Minister of Denmark |
| Leo Varadkar | New Prime Minister of Ireland |
| Santosh Kumar Yadav | Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India, NHAI |
| Pushpa Kamal Dahal | New PM of Nepal |
| Anil Kumar Lahoti | CEO & Chairman of Railway Board |
List of recent Appointment in India- 2022
| Name | Appointed as |
|---|---|
| PT Usha | First woman president of Indian Olympic Association |
| Jair Bolsonaro | President of Brazil |
| Lionel Messi | Global Brand Ambassador of EdTech giant Byju’s social initiative “Education For All” |
| Mohammad Tayyab Ikram | President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) |
| Rituraj Awasthi | Chairperson of the Law Commission of India |
| Neeraj Chopra | “Friendship Ambassador” by Switzerland Tourism |
| Arvind Virmani | Full-Time member of the NITI Aayog |
| Arun Goel | Election Commissioner by the President of India |
| Binod Kumar | Executive Director of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) |
| T.G. Sitharam | Chairperson of the All India Institute for Technical Education (AICTE) |
| Anwar Ibrahim | Prime Minister of Malaysia |
| Vinit Kumar | CEO of the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC) |
| Deepa Malik | Brand Ambassador of the Nikshay Mitra campaign |
| Sujoy Lal Thaosen | Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) |
| Justice D.Y. Chandrachud | 50th Chief Justice of Supreme Court India |
| R K Singh | President of the International Solar Alliance |
| Rishi Sunak | Prime Minister of the UK |
| Roger Binny | President of BCCI |
| Prashant Kumar | MD & CEO of Yes Bank |
| Imran Khawaja | Deputy Chairperson of the International Cricket Council (ICC) |
| Dr. Sankarasubramanian K | Principal Scientist of the Aditya-L1 mission |
| Deependra Singh Rathore | CEO of Paytm Payments Bank |
| Mallikarjun Kharge | New Congress President |
| Bharati Das | Controller General of Accounts |
| Justice DY Chandrachud | 50th Chief Justice of India |
| Uday Umesh Lalit | 49thChief Justice of India |
| Roger Binny | BCCI president |
| Pankaj Tripathi | ‘National Icon’ of Election Commission of India |
| Sanjeev Kishore | Director General of Indian Ordinance Factory |
| Ajay Bhadoo | Deputy Election Commissioner |
| Ram Charan | Brand Ambassador of Hero MotoCorp |
| Rajendra Kumar | ESIC (Employees’ State Insurance Corporation,) Director General. |
| Lt. General Anil Chauhan | Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) |
| R Venkataramani | Attorney General of India |
| Dilip Tirkey | President of Hockey India |
| Dr. Rajiv Bahl | Director General of ICMR |
| Ratan Tata, Justice K.T. Thomas and Kariya Munda | Trustees of PM CARES Fund |
| Sumant Kathpalia | MD & CEO IndusInd Bank |
| Mohammed bin Salman | Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia |
| Giorgia Meloni | First woman PM of Italy |
| Volker Turk | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| Liz Truss | PM of United Kingdom |
| Samir V. Kamat | New chairman of DRDO |
| Nallathamby Kalaiselvi | Appointed as the First woman director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) |
| Jagdeep Dhankar | Elected as Vice-president of India |
| Dr. Sujoy Lal Thaosen | Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) |
| Shweta Singh | Director in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) |
| Suresh N Patel | DG of Central Vigilance Commissioner |
| Satyendra Prakash | Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) |
| Rajesh Verma | Secretary to President Droupadi Murmu |
| Ana Brnabic | Prime Minister of Serbia |
| Krishnamurti Subramanian | India’s Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
| Viswanathan Anand | Deputy president of International Chess Federation (FIDE) |
| Gustavo Petro | Colombia’s first leftist President |
| Simon Stiell | New executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
| William Ruto | President of Kenya |
| 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) |