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India and Global – Updated as of June 2025

🇮🇳 Top Positions in India (Part 1) 🇮🇳

  • President of India: Smt. Droupadi Murmu
  • Vice President of India / Chairman, Rajya Sabha: Jagdeep Dhankhar
  • Prime Minister of India: Narendra Damodar Das Modi
  • Speaker, Lok Sabha: Shri Om Birla
  • Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha: Mr. Harivansh Narayan Singh
  • Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha): Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
  • Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog: Shri Suman Bery
  • Election Commissioner: Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu & Dr. Vivek Joshi
  • Chief Election Commissioner (CEC): Shri Gyanesh Kumar
  • Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC): Shri Justice V Ramasubramanian
  • Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG): Shri K. Sanjay Murthy
  • Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC): Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
  • Chairman, UPSC: Ajay Kumar (slated for appointment)
  • Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (NCF): No current active chairman identified for a reconstituted commission as of June 2025.
  • Chief Information Commissioner (CIC): Heeralal Samariya
  • Chairman, Staff Selection Commission (SSC): S Gopalakrishnan
  • Chairman Tata Sons: S. Padmanabhan
  • Chairman Reliance Industries: Mr. Mukesh Ambani
  • Executive Chairman, ArcelorMittal: Mr. Lakshmi Mittal
  • Executive Chairperson, Biocon: Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Managing Director & CEO ICICI Bank: Mr. Sandeep Bakhshi
  • Founder, HCL Group & Chairman Emeritus and Strategic Advisor to the Board: Mr. Shiv Nadar
  • Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC): Arvindar Singh Sahney
  • Chairman, Bharti Group (Bharti Airtel): Mr. Sunil Mittal
  • Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo: Ramon L. Laguarta
  • MD, CEO Axis Bank: Amitabh Chaudhry
  • Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Rajiv Bahl
  • Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India: Mritunjay Kumar Narayan
  • Chairman, 22nd Law Commission of India: Justice Rituraj Awasthi

🇮🇳 Top Positions in India (Part 2) 🇮🇳

  • Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI): Sanjay Malhotra
  • President, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE): Mr. J D Patil
  • Chairman, Audit Bureau Circulation (ABC): Riyad Mathew
  • Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT): Ravi Agrawal
  • Chairperson, Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI): Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey
  • Chairperson, National Commission for Women (NCW): Ms. Vijaya K. Rahatkar
  • Chairperson, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy (NIPFP): Dr. Urjit Patel
  • Chairman, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII): R. Madhavan
  • CEO, Prasar Bharati: Shri Gaurav Dwivedi
  • Chairman, Investment Commission: Defunct (Current: Shri Amardeep Singh Bhatia, Secretary, DPIIT & Chairman, Invest India)
  • Chairperson, NASSCOM: Sindhu Gangadharan
  • President, NASSCOM: Rajesh Nambiar
  • President, ASSOCHAM: Sanjay Nayar
  • Chairman, International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA): Shri K Rajaraman
  • Chairman, Infosys: Nandan M. Nilekani
  • National Security Advisor and Special Advisor to PM (Internal Security): Shri Ajit Doval
  • Secretary General, Rajya Sabha: Shri Pramod Chandra Mody
  • Secretary General, Lok Sabha: Shri Utpal Kumar Singh
  • Director Intelligence Bureau (IB): Tapan Kumar Deka
  • Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI): Praveen Sood
  • Director, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW): Shri Samant Kumar Goel
  • Director General, National Security Guard (NSG): B. Srinivasan
  • Director General, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF): Gyanendra Pratap Singh
  • Director General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF): Rajwinder Singh Bhatti
  • Director General, Railway Protection Force (RPF): Manoj Yadava
  • Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP): Rahul Rasgotra
  • Chairman, University Grant Commission (UGC): Dr. Vineet Joshi
  • Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister: Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy
  • Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government (PSA): Ajay Kumar Sood
  • Chairman Space Commission and ISRO: Dr. V. Narayanan
  • Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept of Atomic Energy (DAE): Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty
  • Chairman, National Commission for Minorities (NCM): Shri Iqbal Singh Lalpura
  • Chairman, National Statistical Commission (NSC): Prof. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar
  • Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB): Amrit Mohan Prasad
  • Executive Chairman, Wipro: Rishad A Premji
  • Chairman of Tech Mahindra: Mr. Anand Mahindra
  • Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Air India Limited: N. Chandrasekaran (Chairman) & Campbell Wilson (CEO & MD)

⚖️ Key Judicial & Defense Appointments ⚔️

  • Present Attorney General of India: R. Venkataramani
  • Present Solicitor General of India: Tushar Mehta
  • Present Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India: Shri K. Sanjay Murthy
  • Present Chief of Army Staff: General Upendra Dwivedi
  • Present Chief of Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh
  • Present Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi
  • Present Supreme Court Chief Justice of India: Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai

📊 Regulatory & Commission Heads 📊

  • Present Chief Election Commissioner: Shri Gyanesh Kumar
  • Present National Human Rights Commission, Chairman: Shri Justice V Ramasubramanian
  • Present National Commission for Women, Chairperson: Ms. Vijaya K. Rahatkar
  • Present Chief Information Commissioner (CIC): Heeralal Samariya
  • Present (15th) Finance Commission, Chairman: N. K. Singh
  • Present (16th) Finance Commission, Chairman: Arvind Panagariya
  • Present ISRO, Chairman: Dr. V. Narayanan
  • Present SEBI Chairman (Securities and Exchange Board of India): Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey
  • Present TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) Chairman: Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti
  • Present Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC): Praveen Kumar Srivastava
  • Present Chairman of Competition Commission of India (CCI): Ravneet Kaur
  • Present Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog: Shri Suman Bery
  • Present Chairman of NITI Aayog: Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of India)
  • Present Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog: BVR Subrahmanyam
  • Present Reserve Bank of India Governor: Sanjay Malhotra
  • Present Chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI): Vacant
  • Present Chairman of the Press Council of India: Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai
  • Present Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes: Kishor Makwana
  • Present Chairman of the National Scheduled Tribes Commission: Antar Singh Arya
  • Present Chairman of UPSC: Ajay Kumar
  • Present Chairman of Rajya Sabha: Jagdeep Dhankhar (Vice President of India)
  • Present Lok Sabha Speaker: Om Birla

🌐 Heads of International Organizations (Part 1) 🌐

  • Secretary-General, United Nations Organisations (UNO): António Guterres
  • Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Organisations (UNO): Amina J. Mohammed
  • Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer: Anshula Kant
  • Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF): Kristalina Georgieva
  • Director General, UNESCO: Audrey Azoulay
  • Director General, World Health Organisation (WHO): Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • Director General, International Labour Organisation (ILO): Gilbert F. Houngbo
  • Executive Director, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF): Catherine Russell
  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Filippo Grandi
  • Administrator, United Nations Development Programme: Achim Steiner
  • Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): Rebeca Grynspan
  • Secretary-General, Organisation of Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD): Mathias Cormann
  • President, International Court of Justice (ICJ): Yuji Iwasawa
  • President, Asian Development Bank (ADB): Masato Kanda
  • President, African Development Bank: Sidi Ould Tah
  • President, International Olympic Committee (IOC): Mr. Thomas Bach
  • Secretary-General, Commonwealth: Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey
  • Director – General, WTO: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • President, European Council: António Costa
  • President, European Commission: Ursula von der Leyen
  • Director – General, UNIDO: Gerd Müller

🌐 Heads of International Organizations (Part 2) 🌐

  • Secretary-General, Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC): His Excellency Mr. Jasem Mohamed Abdullah Albudaiwi
  • Secretary-General, Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC): Hissein Brahim Taha
  • Secretary-General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): Haitham al-Ghais
  • Secretary-General, Organisation of American States: Albert Ramdin
  • Director – General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Rafael Mariano Grossi
  • Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO): Mark Rutte
  • Executive Director, UNFPA: Dr. Natalia Kanem
  • Secretary-General, ASEAN: Dr. Kao Kim Hourn
  • Secretary-General, SAARC: Ambassador Md. Golam Sarwar
  • President, World Athletics (formerly IAAF): Sebastian Coe
  • Administrator, NASA (USA): Janet Petro (Acting Administrator)
  • Secretary-General, Amnesty International: Dr. Agnès Callamard
  • President of the World Meteorological Organization: Abdulla Al Mandous
  • Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization: Celeste Saulo
  • Secretary General of Interpol: Valdecy Urquiza
  • President of Interpol: Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi
  • Present FIFA President: Gianni Infantino
  • Chairman of the African Union: João Lourenço
  • Head of the African Union Commission: H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf
  • Executive Director of UN Women: Sima Bahous
  • President of the World Bank: Ajay Banga
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