List of New Appointments of the Month - May 2016

A V S Ramesh Chandra - Indian Ambassador, Romania
Ajay Mittal - Secretary, Information and Broadcasting (I&B)
Anantha Radhakrishnan - MD, Infosys BPO
Anurag Thakur - President, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
AR Karve - Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command (SNC)
Ashok Chawla - Chairman, National Stock Exchange (NSE)
Ashok Lavasa - Finance Secretary
Atma Ram Nadkarni - Additional Solicitor General (ASG)
Baciro Dja - Prime Minister, Guinea Bissau
Bhupendra Kainthola - Director, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)
Binali Yildirim - Prime Minister, Turkey
Deepak Gupta - Chief Justice, Chhattisgarh High Court
Deepak Kabu - CEO, Ziox Mobiles
Dilip B Bhosale - Chief Justice, Madhya Pradesh High Court
Enda Kenny - Prime Minister, Ireland (re-election)
Fatma Samoura - Secretary General, FIFA (1st woman)
Govind Rajan - CEO, Freecharge
Harmeet Kaur Dhillon - Member, Republican National Committee
Hindupur Pradeep Rao - Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)
J Jayalalithaa - Chief Minister, Tamil Nadu
Khalid al-Falih - Oil Minister, Saudi Arabia
Kiran Bedi - Lieutenant Governor, Puducherry
Kishore Biyani - MD, Bharti Retail
KM Joseph - Chief Justice,
Andhra Pradesh High Court
Kumar Rajesh Chandra - Director General, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)
Kunal Shah - Chairman, Freecharge
Mamata Banerjee - Chief Minister, West Bengal
Manish Dugar - Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Practo
Manjit Singh - Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (PACFBNF)
Mary Robinson & Macharia Kamau - UN’s Special Envoys for El Nino and Climate
Michel Temer - Interim President, Brazil
Mickey Arthur - Head Coach, Pakistan
Mrugank Paranjape - MD & CEO, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX)
Mukul Mudgal - Deputy Chairman, FIFA Governance Committee
Mullah Haibatullah
Akhundzada - New Leader, Afghan Taliban
Murali Pillai - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Naveen Sinha - Chief Justice, Rajasthan High Court
Nitin Prasad - Chairman, Shell India
Patricia Espinosa - Executive Secretary, UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
Philip Abraham - Deputy Mayor, Loughton town (United Kingdom)
Pinarayi Vijayan - Chief Minister, Kerala
Radha Binod Barman - Chairperson, National Statistical Commission (NSC)
Rajiv Bhalla - Managing Director, Barco India
Rakesh Kumar Mishra - Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
Ranglal Jamuda - Head, Odisha State Food Commission
Ratan P. Watal - Principal Adviser (Social Sector), NITI Aayog
Rohit Philip - CFO, IndiGo
Rohit Sharma - Brand Ambassador, Hublot (Luxury Watch Maker)
S. Mahalingam - Non Executive Chairman, City Union Bank
S.K. Saini - 46th Commandant, Indian Military Academy (IMA)
S.K. Sharma - CMD, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)
Sadiq Khan - Mayor, London (1st Muslim to head London)
Sanjay Kaul - Manager, Apple India
Sanjiv Misra - Independent Director and Non-Executive Chairman, Axis Bank
Sankaran Naren - Executive Director, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Co
Sarbananda Sonowal - Chief Minister, Assam
Savinder Kaur - 1st Woman Head, Nirankari mission
Sergio Marchionne - CEO, Ferrari
Shashank Manohar - 1st Independent Chairman, ICC
Shivanand Nimbargi - MD & CEO, L&T Hyderabad Metro
Somnath Ghosh - Indian Ambassador, Republic of Tajikistan
Sriram Ramaswamy - Fellow, Royal Society
Sudhir Yadav - Director General, Tihar Jail
Sujoy Bose - 1st CEO, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund
Sunil Lanba - Chief, Naval Staff
Surajit Kar Purkayastha - DGP, West Bengal
Tinlianthang Vaiphei - Chief Justice, Tripura High Court
Tsai Ing-wen - 14th President, Taiwan (1st Female President)
Vijay Chandok - Executive Director(ED), ICICI
Vinod K. Dasari - MD, Ashok Leyland
Zinedine Zidane - Brand Ambassador, Kanakia Paris