New Appointments: National & International 2019
New Appointments National & International ( Updated till April 2019). New Appointments 2019. List of New Appointments in the India 2019. If you are preparing for IBPS, SBI, LIC, SSC, Railways, and others competitive Exams, you are bound to find a few questions on Current Affairs in your General Awareness section on New Appointments. So be prepared to tackle it all!
Here we are providing you a list of New Appointments: National & International 2019 in PDF format. In this list, you can find which person was appointed to which important post in 2018-19 and learn all the trivia associated with them. These Appointments are also part of GK and Current Affairs. So follow these newly appointed heads of Organisations and get good marks in the upcoming exams
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We have compiled important & expected New Appointments, which can be asked in upcoming exams like –LIC AAO, SBI PO/Clerk, IDBI Bank PO/Clerk, IBPS , SSC, Railways and other competitive Exams.
List of New Appointments in the India/International 2019 – Download Free PDF
| April 2019 | March 2019 |
| February 2019 | January 2019 |
New Appointments: National 2018
| S. No. | Name of the person | Name of the Post |
| 1 | New Foreign Secretary of India | Vijay Keshav Gokhale |
| 2 | New Deputy National Security Adviser | Rajinder Khanna |
| 3 | New Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) | Pankaj Jain |
| 4 | New Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh | Jai Ram Thakur |
| 5 | New Chief Minister of Gujarat | Vijay Rupani |
| 6 | New BCCI General Manager | Saba Karim |
| 7 | New Director-General of National Cadet Corps (NCC) | Lt Gen B S Sahrawat |
| 8 | New Chairman & Managing Director of Air India | Pradeep Singh Kharola |
| 9 | RBI Executive Director | Uma Shankar |
| 10 | New President of ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations) | Vinay Sahasrabuddhe |
| 11 | New acting Chairman of National Green Tribunal (NGT) | Justice U.D. Salvi |
| 12 | New Director of National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) | R Hemalatha |
| 13 | New Chairman of BARC India | Nakul Chopra |
| 14 | New Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau | Abhay |
| 15 | New Congress President | Rahul Gandhi |
| 16 | New President Para Sports Foundation | Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari |
| 17 | New India’s Ambassador to Turkmenistan | Azar A.H.Khan |
| 18 | Re-appointed Prasar Bharati Chairman | A Surya Prakash |
| 19 | Chairman of 15th Finance Commission | NK Singh |
| 20 | New CEO & MD of Infosys | Salil S. Parekh |
| 21 | UN Environment’s Goodwill Ambassador for India | Dia Mirza |
| 22 | Chairman of National Anti-Profiteering Authority under GST | BN Sharma |
| 23 | New Director-General of Police (DGP) of Andhra Pradesh | N Sambasiva Rao |
| 24 | First woman Pilot in Indian Navy | Shubhangi Swaroop |
| 25 | India’s G20 Sherpa | Shaktikanta Das |
| 26 | New Madras High-Court judge | Justice Satrughana Pujahari |
| 27 | President of Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) | Nirmala Sitharaman (Union Defence Minister) |
| 28 | SEBI Executive Director | Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar |
| 29 | New Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) | S. Ravi |
| 30 | President of 36th Intl Geological Congress | Vijay Prasad Dimri (Scientist) |
| 31 | First woman President of NASSCOM in 2018 | Debjani Ghosh. |
| 32 | New Secretary (security) in Cabinet Secretariat | K. Sinha. |
| 33 | New Finance Secretary | Hasmukh Adhia |
| 34 | New Private Secretary to President | Vikram Singh |
| 35 | New First Woman Police Chief of Karnataka | Neelmani N. Raju |
| 36 | New Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA) | Yogesh Chander Modi |
| 37 | New MD & CEO of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) | Suresh Sethi |
| 38 | New Special Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) | Rakesh Asthana. |
| 39 | New CEO & MD of Tata Steel | T. V. Narendran |
| 40 | New CEO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance | Vikas Seth |
| 41 | New AIBA Women’s Youth World Championships Ambassador | MC Mary Kom |
| 42 | New Vice Chief of Naval Staff | Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar |
| 43 | New CEO of Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) | N.S. Venkatesh |
| 44 | New as Additional Director General of CISF | Alok Kumar Pateria |
| 45 | New Lokayukta of Madhya Pradesh | Naresh Kumar |
| 46 | New Chief of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) | Anupam Kher |
| 47 | New HSBC India CEO | Jayant Rikhye |
| 48 | New SBI Chairman | Rajnish Kumar |
| 49 | New President of US-India Business Council | Nisha Desai Biswal |
| 50 | New CMD of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) Ltd | P. Alli Rani. |
| 51 | New CMD of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Ltd | Balraj Joshi. |
| 52 | The first Chairman of the five-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC- PM) | Bibek Debroy |
| 53 | New Chairman & Managing Director of ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) | Shashi Shanker. |
| 54 | New CMD of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd | Mahendra Pratap Mall. |
| 55 | New CMD of the United India Insurance Co. Ltd | M. Nagaraja Sarma. |
| 56 | New Director General (DG) of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) | Rajni Kant Misra. |
| 57 | NPCI’s (National Payments Corporation of India) interim Chairman | B. Sambamurthy |
| 58 | New interim GSTN Chairman | A.B Panday |
| 59 | New Brand Ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Uttarakhand | Akshay Kumar. |
| 60 | Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI) | Viveck Goenka. |
| 61 | New Union Minister of Railways | Piyush Goyal. |
| 62 | New Election Commissioner of India | Sunil Arora. |
| 63 | Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) | Anita Karwal |
| 64 | New Home Secretary | Rajiv Gauba |
| 65 | New Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India | Rajiv Mehrishi |
| 66 | New Defence Minister of India | Nirmala Sitharaman. |
| 67 | New Director General (DG) Railway Protection Force (RPF) | Dharmendra Kumar. |
| 68 | New Chairman of Railway Board | Ashwani Lohani. |
| 69 | New Executive Director of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) | Mamta Suri. |
| 70 | New Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification(CBFC) | Prasoon Joshi |
| 71 | New Vice President of India | Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu |
| 72 | New Chief Justice of India (CJI) | Justice Dipak Misra. |
| 73 | New CMD of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) | Mohammad Mustafa. |
| 74 | New Chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) | Dhirendra Swarup. |
| 75 | New Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog | Dr. Rajiv Kumar. |
| 76 | New secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) | Sanjaya Baru |
| 77 | Re-appointed as Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Axis Bank | Shikha Sharma |
| 78 | New Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar | Sushil Kumar Modi. |
| 79 | New Chief Minister of Nagaland | TR Zeliang. |
| 80 | New MD & CEO of Oriental Bank of Commerce | Mukesh Kumar Jain. |
| 81 | New Director General (DG)of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (GSTI) | John Joseph |
| 82 | Ambassador of India to the Republic of Peru. | Shri M. Subbarayudu |
| 83 | Deputy CM of Gujarat | Nitin Patel |
| 84 | Private Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind | Railway officer Vikram Singh |
| 85 | India‘s High commissioner to Pakistan | Ajay Bisaria |
| 86 | Ambassador of India to Switzerland | Sibi George |
| 87 | Additional Director General, CISF | Shri Alok Kumar Pateria |
| 88 | High Commissioner of India to Republic of Zambia | N.J.Gangte |
| 89 | India’s new Ambassador to China | Gautam Bambawale |
| 90 | Member (Staff) Railway Board & ex officio Secretary to GOI | D.K. Gayen |
| 91 | Member(Engr.) Railway Board & ex officio Secretary to GOI | M K Gupta |
| 92 | High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Malta | Rajesh Vaishnaw |
| 93 | Additional Director General of BSF | Nasir Kamal |
| 94 | Ambassador of India to Ecuador | Ravi Bangar |
| 95 | Ambassador of India to the Principality of Liechtenstein | Sibi George |
| 96 | PETA’s (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) Person of the Year | Actress Anushka Sharma |
| 97 | New Chairman, BARC India (Broadcast Audience Research Council) | Nakul Chopra |
| 98 | Chairman & Managing Director of Air India | Pradeep Singh Kharola |
| 99 | Secretary General, International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) | Buddhist monk Dhammapiya from Tripura |
| 100 | President of the National Restaurant Association of India | Rahul Singh |
| 101 | CEO, Online food delivery start-up Swiggy | Vishal Bhatia |
| 102 | MD & CEO of Aegon Life Insurance | Vineet Arora |
| 103 | Executive Director of SEBI. | Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar |
| 104 | Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer of Tata Steel | Koushik Chatterjee |
| 105 | CFO, Paytm Payments Bank | Sudhanshu Jain |
| 106 | CEO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance | Vikas Seth |
| 107 | Laureus’ first Brand Ambassador | Indian Cricketer Yuvraj Singh |
| 108 | Business Head of ‘MobiKwik Payment Gateway | Rukaiya Rangwala |
| 109 | MD & CEO PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Ltd | Ashish Srivastava |
| 110 | MD & CEO of Vijaya Bank | R A Sankara Narayanan |
| 111 | MD & CEO of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank | KV Rama Moorthy |
| 112 | CMD of United India Insurance Co. Ltd | M. Nagaraja Sarma |
| 113 | President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers | Force Motors Chairman Abhay Firodia |
New Appointments: International & Others 2018
| S. No. | Name of the person | Name of the Post |
| 1 | New President of Liberia | George Weah |
| 2 | New President of Chile | Sebastian Pinera |
| 3 | Kenya‘s President | Uhuru Kenyatta |
| 4 | UNAIDS Special Ambassador for Adolescents & HIV | AIDS researcher Quarraisha Abdool Karim |
| 5 | President of Zimbabwe | Emmerson Mnangagwa |
| 6 | 2nd Woman Director-General of UNESCO | Audrey Azoulay |
| 7 | President of Slovenia | Borut Pahor |
| 8 | New US Ambassador to India | Kenneth Juster |
| 9 | 30th PM of Mongolia | Ukhnaa Khurelsukh |
| 10 | 8th President of Singapore | Halimah Yacob |
| 11 | Prime Minister of Peru | Mercedes Araoz Fernandez |
| 12 | President of Peru | Pedro Pablo Kuczynski |
| 13 | Fourth term as chancellor in Germany | Angela Merkel |
| 14 | Angola‘s New President | Joao Lourenco |
| 15 | Mayor of Yuba city in California | Preet Didbal: 1st Sikh woman to hold position in USA) |
| 16 | Resigned as International Development Secretary | Priti Patel, Britain‘s first Indian-origin Cabinet Minister |
| 17 | UN Environment‘s Goodwill Ambassador for India | Former Miss Asia Pacific Dia Mirza |
| 18 | Global Goodwill Ambassador for UN Environment | British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding |
| 19 | UN Environment‘s Goodwill Ambassador for India | Former Miss Asia Pacific Dia Mirza |
| 20 | Global Goodwill Ambassador for UN Environment | British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding |
| 21 | President of 36th International Geological Congress
(IGC) |
Scientist Vijay Prasad Dimri |
| 22 | Ambassador of World Packaging Organisation | Ecobliss India MD AVPS Chakravarthi |
| 23 | HSBC‘s Chief Executive Officer for India | Jayant Rikhye |
| 24 | Samsung Electronics Chief Executive resigned | Kwon Oh-hyun |
| 25 | WHO‘s Deputy Director General for Programmes | Soumya Swaminathan |
| 26 | WHO‘s Deputy Director General for Corporate
Operations |
Ms Jane Ellison |
| 27 | Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan | Vice-Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi |
| 28 | Chairperson of World Hindu Congress, Chicago-2018 | Tulsi Gabbard |
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