Appointments – 2014 (January 2014 to December 2014) • A.K. Dubey - Chairman, Coal India Limited • Aamir Khan - Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF South Asia • Abdel Fattah el-Sisi - 6th President of Egypt • Abdullah al-Thani - New PM of Libiya • Abhinav Bindra - Chairman, ISSF Atheletes Committee (ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation) • Abhishek Ganguly - Director, Puma India • Adarsh Kumar Goel - New Judge of Supreme Court • Adi Zainulbhai - Chairman, Quality Council of India (QCI) • Aditi Khanna - first woman President of Indian Journalists‘ Association (IJA), London. • Ajay Yadav - Head of Congress Campaign Committee • Ajit Doval - New National Security Adviser • Ajit Doval - Special Representative of India to China • Ajoy Misra - MD & CEO, Tata Global Beverages Limited. • Akhilesh Das Gupta - President (Re-Elected), Badminton Association of India (BAI) • Akhilesh Gupta - President of Indian Meteorological Society • AL Banerjee - New DGP (UP) • Ami Bera - Member, U.S. House of Representatives • Amit Mathew - Chairman, Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) • Amit Priyavadan Mehta - Federal Judge, US Senate • Amit Shah - BJP President • Amit Sharma - New Commander of Strategic Forces • Amitabh Kant - Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. • Anand Grover - Special Public Prosecutor (2G spectrum) • Anandiben - Chief Minister of Gujarat • Anant Geete - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister • Ananth Kumar - Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister • Anerood Jugnauth - Prime Minister, Mauritius • Anil Kumar Sinha - Director, CBI • Anita Kapur - Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) • Anita M Singh - Chief of Staff and Counselor, US National Security Division (NSD) • Anoop Mishra - Lok Sabha Secretary General • Anurag Jain - Joint Secretary, Prime Ministers Office • Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Interim Prime Minister of Ukraine • Arun Jaitley - Finance, Corporate Affairs • Arun Kumar Gupta - CMD, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) • Arun Mishra - New Judge of Supreme Court • Arup Raha - Chiefs of Staffs Committee Chairman • Arvind Mayaram - New finance secretary • Arvind Subramanian - Chief Economic Advisor, Finance Ministry • Ashok Gajapathi Raju - Civil Aviation Minister • Ashraf Ghani - President, Afghanistan • Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai - President of Afghanistan • Ashraf Jehan - First female judge, Pakistan‘s National Sharia Court • Ashwin B. Pandya - Chairman, Central Water Commission • Atul Kumar Jain - Chief of Staff of Southern Naval Command • B.N. Sri Krishna - Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB) • Baldev Raj Mahajan - Advocate General (AG), Haryana • Balramji Das Tandon - Governor of Chattisgarh • Bharat Arun and Sanjay Bangar - Assistant Coaches to Indian Cricket Team • Bhavani Prasad - Chairman, APERC (Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission) • BS Chauhan - Chairman of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) • C.K. Prasad - Chirman, Press Council of India (PCI) • Chandrakala Padia - first women chairperson of Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) • Chetan Tamboli - Chairman of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Western Region. • Cramer Ball - CEO, Jet Airways • D K Pathak - New Director General of BSF • Suresh Prabhu - Railways Minister • Dalbir Singh Suhag - New Army Chief • Deepak Gupta - Chairman, UPSC • Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) - Chief Minister, Maharashtra • Devendra Kumar Pathak - Special DG, Border Security Force. • Dinesh Sarraf - New CMD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. • Dineshwar Sharma - Chief, Intelligence Bureau • Jagat Prakash Nadda- Health and Family Welfare Minister • Dr. Krishan Kant Paul - Governor of Manipur. • Dr. Krishan Kant Paul - Governor, Manipur (additional charge) • E.V.K.S Elangovan - TN Congress Committee PResident • Edward Snowden - New Rector of the University of Glasgow • Emma Watson - UN Women Goodwill Ambassador • Ewa Kopacz - Prime Minister, Poland • G. Rohini – First Woman Chief Justice, Delhi High Court • G. S. Singhvi - Chariman, COMPAT (Competition Appellate Tribunal) • Ganpat Vasava - Speaker, Gujarat Assembly • Gautham Roy - MD, CPCL (Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd) • Giriraj Singh - Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises • Glen Attewell - New CEO to Tesco HSC • Guy Scott - President, Zambia • H C Meena - Secretary Security, Cabinet Secretariat. • Haider al-Abadi - Prime Minister of Iraq • Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu - 42nd Chief Justice of India • Hardeep Singh Puri - Secretary General of Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM) • Haribhau Bagde - Speaker, Maharashtra, Assembly • Harish Rawat - CM of Uttrarakhand. • Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries Minister • Hasmukh Adhia - Secretary, Department of Financial Services • Hiroshi Naka - Vice President and Auditor General of World Bank • Hyon Yong-Chol - Defence Minister of North Korea • Ibrahim Mahlab - New PM of Egypt • Jai Ram Ramesh - Head of Future Earth Engagement Committee • Jairam Ramesh - Member, International Advisory Board (IAB) • Jamila Bayaz - First Women Police chief, Afghanistan • Janet Yellen - Head of US Federal Reserve (1st Woman) • Jatinder Bir Singh - Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) • Jawaharr Sircar - Vice President, ABU (Asia Pacific Brodcasting Union) • Jean-Claude Juncker - Next President of European Commission • Jitan Ram Manjhi - Chief Minister of Bihar • John Thompson - Chairman of Microsoft. • Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs Minister • Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez - President of Panama • Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur - Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission • Justice B.S. Chauhan - Judge of the Supreme Court • K. Chandra Sekhar Rao - CM of Telangana state • K. Siva Prasada Rao - first Assembly speaker of new Andhra Pradesh • K. V. Thomas - Head of Parliament public account Committee • Kailash Meghwal - Speaker, Rajasthan Assembly • Kalpana Morparia - Director, HUL (Hindustan Unilever Ltd) • Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister • Kalyan Singh - New Governor of Rajasthan • Kalyan Singh - Vice president of BJP • Kamal Nath - pro tem speaker of Lok Sabha • Karim Massimov - New Prime Minister of Kazakhstan • Kaushik Basu - President, International Economic Association (IEA) • Keshari Nath Tripathi - Governor of Bihar (additional charge) • Keshari Nath Tripathi - West Bengal Governor • Khaled Bahah - PM, Yemen • Kiran Mazumdar Shaw - Chairperson, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) • Lalitha Kumaramangalam - chairperson of National Commission for Women (NCW) • Leonardo DiCaprio - United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change • Lt Gen P R Kumar - Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), Indian Army • M Teresa Kho - ADBs (Asian Development Bank) new country director for India • M. Tambidurai - Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker • Madhuri Dixit - Brand ambassador for Mamta Abhiyan, Madhya Pradesh • Madhusudanachari - first Speaker of Telangana • Manan Kumar Mishra - Chairman, Bar Council of India • Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women and Child Development Minister • Manohar Lal Khattar - CM, Haryana • Manohar Sapre - New Judge of Supreme Court • Manuel Valls - New Prime minister of France • Marco Lambertini - Director-general of the WWF International • Marie-Lousie Coleiro Preca - Precident of Malta • Mark Ramprakash - Batting Coach, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) • Marvan Atapattu - Heac Coach, Sri Lanka Cricket • Matteo Renzi - Italys youngest PM • Mayank Ashar, MD and CEO, Cairn India • Mayank Pareek - Head, Passenger vehicles of Tata Motors • Michel Kafando - Interim President, Burkina Faso • Michelle Howard - First Female 4 Star Admiral in US Navy • Mridula Sinha - Governor of Goa • Laxmikant Parsekar - Chief Minister, Goa • Mukul Mudgal - Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) • Mukul Rohatgi - New Attorney-General of India • Murali Lanka - CEO, Walmart India • N P Singh - CEO, Multi Screen Media • N. Srinivasan - 1st Chariperson of ICC • N. Chandrasekaran - CEO, TCS • N. Gopalaswami - Chariman, Kalakshetra Foundation • N. Ramachandran - President, Indian Olympic Association • N. Srinivasan - Chairman of the International Cricket Council • N. Srinivasan - Chief of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association • Nabam Tuki - Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh • Najma Heptulla - Minority Affairs Minister • Nara Chandra Babu Naidu - Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh • Narasimhan - Common Governor of 2 states (Andhra Pradesh & Telangana) • Narendra Ambwani - Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) • Narendra Kothari - Chairman of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) Ltd • Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of India • Narendra Singh Tomar - Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment Minister • Nasir-ul-Mulk - Pakistan‘s new chief justice • Naveen Patnaik - Chief Minister of Odisha • Nitin Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping Minister • Nripendra Misra - Principal Secretary to Narendra Modi • O. P Singh - Director General, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) • O. Panneerselvam - chief minister of Tamil Nadu • O.P Kohli - Governor of Gujarat • Oleksandr Turchynov - Interim President of Ukraine • P K Gupta - Chief Secretary of Haryana • P. Madhusudan - CMD, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) • P. Sathasivam - Governor, Kerala • Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya - Governor of Nagaland • Palaniswamy Sathasivam - new Governor of Kerala • Pawan Chamling - Chief Minister of Sikkim • Petro Poroshenko - Ukraine President • Philip Hammond - New foreign secretary of UK • PK Mishra - Additional Principal Secretary of Prime Minister • Poonam Khetrapal Singh - Regional Director of World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region • Pradeep Kumar Saxena - GM, South Western Railway • Prafulla Chandra Pant - New Judge of Supreme Court • Prakash Mishra - Director General, CRPF • Pratima Dharm - first Hindu priest at Georgetown University • Prayuth Chan-ocha - Prime Minister of Thailand (first coup leader to serve as prime minister) • Priyadarshi Mohapatra - MD Avayas India and SAARC operations) • PSN Rao - Chairman, Delhi Urban Art Commission • R Gandhi - Deputy Governor of RBI • R Sridhar - Fielding Coach of Indian Cricket Team • R. Banumathi - New Judge of Supreme Court • R. Chandrasekhar - President of NASCOM • R. Kavery Banerjee - New Secretary at Department of Posts • R. S. Cheema - Coal Blocks Allocation Trials Special Public Prosecutor • Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture Minister • Rahul Keshav Patwardhan - NExt CEO, NIIT (2015) • Rajalakshmi Ravikumar - Financial Commissioner (Railways) • Rajashree Nambiar - India Infoline Finance Ltd (IIFL) CEO • Rajat Sharma - President, ews Broadcasting Association (NBA) • Rajeev Kher - Secretary in Department of Commerce. • Rajeev Suri - President and CEO of Nokia • Rajeev Topno - Private Secretary to Prime Minister • Rajendra Mal Lodha - Chief Justice of India • Rajinder Khanna - Chief, Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) • Rajiv - CVC (Central Vigilance Commissioner) • Rajiv Mehrishi - Finance Secretary • Rajnath Singh - Home Affairs Minister • Rajni Razdan - UPSC Chief • Rakesh Khurana - Dean, Harvard College • Rakesh Maria - Mumbai Police Commissioner • Ram Naik - Governor of Uttar Pradesh • Ram Vilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister • Randhir Singh - Honorary Member, IOC • Raninder Singh - 1st Indian Member, International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) • Ranjit Kumar - Solicitor General of India • Rasik Ravindra - member of UNCLCS • Ratan Tata - member of the Board of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) • Ratan Tata - Member, Interpol Foundation • Ravi Chauhan - New MD of SAP India • Ravi Shankar Prasad - Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice Minister • Ravi Shastri - Director of Indian Cricket Team • Ravindra Nath - CMD of National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) • Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey • Richard Rahul Verma - US Ambassador to India (first Indian-American) • Ricky Ponting - Head Coach, Mumbai Indians • Ritu Mallya - Director, MCF board • Rizwan Akhtar - Head of the Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) • Robin K Dhowan - New Navy Chief • Rohington F Nariman - New Judge of Supreme Court • Roji John - National Students Union of India (NSUI) Chief • S Prabhakaran - Co Chairman, Bar Council of India • S Ravi - Umpire (among 25), ICC ODI World Cup 2015 • S. Durga Prasad - Cost Accountants of Indias President • S. S. Mundra - New Deputy Governor of RBI • S.K. Sharma - CMD of Bharat Electronics Ltd. • Salvador Sanchez Ceren - EL Salvador President • Sandeep Saxena - Chief Electoral Officer of Tamilnadu • Sania Mirza - Brand ambassador of Telangana • Sania Mirza - United Nations Goodwill Ambassador (South Asian region) • Sanjay - Deputy Chairman of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Western Region. • Sanjay Kapoor - Chairman, Micromax • Sanjay Kishan Kaul - Chief Justice of the Madras High Court • Sanjeev Kumar Singla - Private Secretary to PM • Sardar Mohammad Raza Khan - Chief Election Commissioner, Pakistan • Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft • Saurabh Chandra - Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas • Scott Price - President and CEO, Walmart Asia • Shaktikanta Das - New Revenue Secretary • Shankar Aggarwal - Secretary in the Ministry of Urban Development • Shankar Venkateswaran - Chief, Tata Sustainability Group • Sharat Chander - Information officer in PMO • Shefali Duggal - Member, US Holocaust Memorial Council • Sheikh Hasina - Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 3rd Time • Shikhar Dhawan - Brand Ambassador to Canara Bank • Shriti Vadera - Chairman, Santander UK (first woman to head a major British bank) • Smriti Irani - Human Resource Development Minister • Soma Mondal - first woman director of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO). • Subhash Chandra Garg - Executive Director (ED) of World Bank. • Sudhir Gupta - Secretary, TRAI • Sumitra Mahajan - Chairman, Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha • Sumitra Mahajan - Speaker of Lok Sabha • Sunil Kumar Sood - General Manager, Central Railway • Suresh Kumar Reddy - First ambassador to ASEAN and East Asia Summit • Surya Prakash - Chairman, Prasar Bharti • Sushil Koirala - PM of Nepal • Sushma Swaraj - External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister • Sutirtha Bhattacharya - CMD, Coal India limited (CIL) • Swamy Goud - Telangana Legislative Council • Syed Muazzem Ali - Bangladesh High Commissioner to India • T. M. Bhasin - Chairman of IBA (Indian Bank Association) • T. Nanda Kumar - Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) • Thawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment Minister • Thomas D’Souza - President, Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce • TR Zeliang - Chief Minister of Nagaland • Uday Sareen - Deputy CEO, ING Vysya Bank • Uday Umesh Lalit - New Judge of Supreme Court • Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister • V. Kannan - CMD of Vijaya Bank • V.G. Mathew - MD & CEO, South Indian Bank • Vanita Gupta - Acting Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justices Civil Rights • Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs Minister • Vidya Sagar Rao - New Governor of Maharashtra • Vijubhai Vala - New Governor of Karnataka • Viktor Orban - Prime Minister of Hungary • Vinod Sawhny - CEO of Reliance Communications (RCom) • Vishal Sikka - Infosys CEO • Voreqe Bainimarama - Prime Minister, Fiji • VVS Laxman - Batting Consultant, CABs Vision 2020 Project (CAB - Cricket Association of Bengal) • Yaduvendra Mathur - CMD of Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) • Zeid Raad Zeid Al-Hussein - UN High Commissioner for Huma
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