International Appointments
September 2020
Name of the Person Designation Predeccesor/Others
Mustapha Adib Prime Minister, Lebanon Lebanon’s ambassador to
Germany
Matthew Hayden, Lisa Trade envoys to India Australian government
Singh
R. Masakui High Commissioner of India to He is the Ambassador of India to
Jamaica the Republic of Zimbabwe
Manisha Kapoor Secretary-General, Advertising
Standards Council of India
Preeti Sudan One of its 11 panellists, World Health
Organisation’s independent panel
for pandemic preparedness
Jane Fraser CEO, Citi group Michael Corbat
Rajesh Khullar Executive Director, World Bank
Sameer Kumar Khare Executive Director - Asian
Development Bank (ADB), Manila.
Yoshihide Suga Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Arun Srinivas Director of Global Business Group,
Facebook
Takeo Konishi New Country Director for India Kenichi Yokoyama
Bah Ndaw (Former Mali Interim President, Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
defense minister)
Ishmael Toroama President, Bougainville
Mohamed Hussein Roble Prime Minister, Somalia
Alexander Lukashenko President, Belarus (6th term)
Moctar Ouane Prime Minister, Mali
Resignation/Retirement
Name of the Person Designation
Arun Kumar Mishra Supreme Court judge
Rajiv B Lall Non-executive chairman of IDFC First Bank
Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of Food Processing Industries
Mustapha Adib Lebanon's prime minister
October 2020
Name of the Person Designation Predeccesor/Others
South Korea’s Yoo Myung- Nominated Next attorney-general, World
hee and Nigeria’s Okonjo- Trade Organisation
Iweala
Bishr Al-Khasawneh 13th premier, Jordan Omar Al-Razzaz
Saad Hariri Prime Minister, Lebanon
Sadyr Zhaparov Acting PM, Kyrgyzstan Kubatbek Boronov
Myktybek Abdyldaev Speaker of the parliament,
Kyrgyzstan
Chaitanya Venkateswaran British High Commissioner of India Called the 'High Commissioner
for a Day'
Vishal V Sharma Permanent Representative of India
to UNESCO
Michael Irani President, International
Weightlifting Federation
Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister, New Zealand
Sushil Kumar Singhal High Commissioner of India to Solomon Presently serving as the High
Islands Commissioner of India to the
Independent State of Papua New
Guinea
Wavel Ramkalawan President, Seychelles He defeated President Danny
Alpha Condé President, Guinea His main opponent - Cellou
Dalein Diallo
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora President, Bolivia Carlos Mesa
Resignation/Retirement
Name of the Person Designation
Uday Shankar Chairman, Star & Disney India
Sooronbai Jeenbekov President, Kyrgyzstan
Vineet Nayyar Executive Vice-Chairman, IL&FS Group
Michel Aoun President, Lebanon
Novemeber 2020
Name of the Person Designation Predeccesor/Others
Priyanca Radhakrishnan Minister for the Community and
Voluntary Sector, New Zealand
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha India’s Next Chief Information
Commissioner
Priyanca Radhakrishnan Minister for the Community and
Voluntary Sector, New Zealand
Duarte Pacheco of President, Inter Parliamentary
Portugal Union
Alassane Ouattara President, Ivory Coast
John Magufuli President, Tanzania
Joe Biden 46th president of the United States. Donald Trump
Kamala Harris Vice President, USA.
Vidisha Maitra UN Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary
Questions
Vjosa Osmani Acting President, Kosovo Hashim Thaci
Kash Patel Chief of Staff , Acting US Defence
Secretary
Aung San Suu Kyi First and incumbent State
Counsellor, Myanmar
Maia Sandu President, Moldova She is a former World Bank
economist
Francisco Sagasti Interim President, Peru Manuel Merino
Greg Barclay (New New independent chairman of the
Zealand) International Cricket Council
Mala Adiga Jill Biden's Policy Director She will be the first lady of USA
Roch Marc Christian Burkina Faso’s president
Kabore
SM Vaidya Vice President, World LPG
Association
Resignation/Retirement
Name of the Person Designation
Hashim Thaci Kosovo President
M M Murugappan Chairman, Tube and Cholamandalam Investments
Navneet Munot Chief Investment Officer, SBI Funds Management
December 2020
Name of the Person Designation Predeccesor/Others
Debendranath Sarangi Vice President, World Squash Federation President, Squash Rackets Federation o
India
Dr Vivek Murthy Surgeon General, Joe Biden Administration
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al- Prime Minister, Kuwait
Sabah
Zena Wooldridge President, World Squash Federation Jacques Fontaine of France
Annika Sorenstam President, International Golf Federation Peter Dawson
Shashi Shekhar Vempati Vice President, Asia Pacific Broadcasting
Union
Nana Akufo-Addo President, Ghana
Resignation/Retirement
Name of the Person Designation
Ajit Pai Chief, Federal Communication Commission
Nicolae Ciuca Prime Minister, Romania
January 2021
Name of the Person Designation Predeccesor/Others
Alex Ellis British high commissioner to India He will succeed Sir Philip Barton
Raj Iyer US Army's first Chief Information Currently Iyer serves as the principal advisor to the
Officer Secretary of the Army.
Faustin-Archange Central African Republic President He is re-elected president of central africa
Touadera
Sadyr Japarov President, Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov.
Pat Gelsinger CEO of Intel He will succeed Bob Swan.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw one of US-India Business Council's Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
vice-chair
Yoweri Museveni President of Uganda Uganda's Museveni wins sixth term
Joe Biden 46th President of the United States
of America
Marcelo Rebelo de Portuguese President won a landslide reelection
Sousa
Kamala Harris 49th Vice-President of the United
States
Febuary 2021
Name of the Person Designation Predecessor/Others
Andy Jassy Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos Executive Chairman, Amazon
Henry Moniz 1st Chief Compliance Officer,
Facebook Inc
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Director general, World Trade First woman and the first African
Organization national to lead the organization
Michael Bloomberg Special Envoy on Climate Ambition Appointed by the United Nations
and Solutions
Mario Draghi Prime Minister, Italy He is the former European
Central Bank chief
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala First female chief, World Trade
(Nigerian Economist) Organization
Toshihiro Mibe CEO, Honda Takahiro Hachigo
Seiko Hashimoto Next Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori
Gautam Thakar Global CEO, OLX Autos
Resignation/Retirement
Name of the Person Designation
Giorgi Gakharia Prime Minister of Georgia
Vedji Ticku CEO, Page Industries
V Narayanasamy Puducherry Chief Minister
G R Arun Kumar Chief Financial Officer, Vedanta
March 2021
Name of the Designation Predecessor /Others
Person
Ligia Noronha Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Appointed by António
Environment Programme Guterres
Manpreet Vohra Next High Commissioner to Australia He is Ambassador of India to
Mexico
Appointed by Ministry of
External
Affairs
Tom Moody New Director of Cricket, Sri Lanka
Cricket (SLC)
Mary Kom Chairperson, International Boxing
Association's champions and veterans committee
Manpreet Vohra Next High Commissioner to Appointed by Ministry of
Australia External
Affairs
Naureen Hassan First vice president and chief operating officer of the
Federal
Reserve Bank of New York.
Tashnuva Anan First transgender newsprsenter Appointed by Bangladesh’s
Boishakhi TV
Dr Harsh Vardhan Chairman, Stop TB Partnership Established in the year 2000
Board
Samia Suluhu President, Tanzania John Magufuli
Hassan
Mark Rutte Prime Minister, The Netherlands It is his 4th term
Denis Sassou President, Republic of the Congo
Nguesso
Resignation/Retirement
Name of the Person Designation
Ramesh Jarkiholi Major and Medium Water Resources Minister,
Karnataka
Jeh Wadia Managing Director, GoAir
