Heads of Bodies – National and International
Friday, April 6th, 2018
When it comes to MBA entrance exams like XAT, CMAT, IIFT, SNAP, etc. the knowledge of the heads of important organizations is really helpful. More often than not, you will end up getting couple of questions on these. There is also a reasonable chance that you will get a question of Match-The-Following type where this information would be really useful.
I have compiled a list of the current heads of important bodies and divided into two parts: India & International. Both of them are given below. (F) indicates that the person is a female.
India/ National:
| Department / Position | Person |
| Attorney General of India | K. K. Venugopal |
| Central Vigilance Commissioner | Mr. K.V. Chowdary |
| Chairman, ISRO | Kailasavadivoo Sivan |
| Chairman, LIC | VK Sharma |
| Chairman, NABARD | Harsh Kumar Bhanwala |
| Chairman, NASSCOM | Raman Roy |
| Chairman, National Knowledge Commission | Sam Pitroda |
| Chairman, NITI Aayog | Narendra Modi |
| Chairman, Press Council of India | Chandramauli Kumar Prasad |
| Chairman, Press Trust of India | Viveck Goenka |
| Chairman, SEBI | Ajay Tyagi |
| Chairman, TRAI | RS Sharma |
| Chairman, UIDAI | Shri J Satyanarayana |
| Chief Economic Advisor | Arvind Subramanian |
| Chief Election Commissioner | Om Prakash Rawat |
| Chief Justice of India | Dipak Misra |
| Chief of the Air Staff | Air Chief Marshall Birender Singh Dhanoa |
| Chief of the Army Staff | General Bipin Rawat |
| Chief of the Naval Staff | Admiral Sunil Lanba |
| Comptroller and Auditor General | Rajiv Mehrishi |
| Defence Secretary | Sanjay Mitra |
| Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog | Dr. Rajiv Kumar |
| Director, BARC | K.N. Vyas |
| Director of the Enforcement Directorate | Karnal Singh |
| Director, Intelligence Bureau | Rajiv Jain |
| Foreign Secretary | Shri Vijay Gokhale |
| Governor, RBI | Urjit Patel |
| National Security Advisor | Ajit Doval |
| President, BCCI | Rahul Johri |
| President, CII | Shobana Kamineni (F) |
| President, FICCI | Rashesh Shah |
| President, IOA | Narinder Dhruv Batra |
| Principal Scientific Adviser | R Chidambaram |
International:
| Department / Position | Person |
| Commonwealth, Head | Queen Elizabeth II (F) |
| Commonwealth, Secretary-General | Patricia Scotland (F) |
| FIFA, President | Gianni Infantino |
| International Court of Justice, President | Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf |
| International Cricket Council, President | Zaheer Abbas |
| International Labor Organization (ILO), Director-General | Guy Ryder |
| International Monetory Fund (IMF), Managing Director | Christine Lagarde (F) |
| International Olympic Committee, President | Thomas Bach |
| INTERPOL, President | MENG Hongwei |
| INTERPOL, Secretary-General | Jürgen Stock |
| NASA, Administrator | Robert M. Lightfoot |
| SAARC, Secretary-General | Amjed Hussain B. Sial |
| UNESCO, Director-General | Audrey Azoulay (F) |
| UNICEF, Executive Director | Henrietta H. Fore (F) |
| United Nations (UN), Secretary-General | António Guterres |
| World Bank, Chief Economist | Shanta Devarajan |
| World Bank, President | Jim Yong Kim |
| World Health Organization (WHO), Director-General | Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
| World Trade Organization (WTO), Director-General | Roberto Azevêdo |
I hope you will find this list useful. This list was last checked / updated on 6th April 2018.
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