Category: International Appointments

Carmen Reinhart selected as Chief Economist of World Bank Group

Carmen Reinhart
  • World Bank Group has selected Carmen Reinhart as its new Vice President and Chief Economist. Her appointment will be effective from June 15, 2020.

Dilip Oommen appointed as new President of Indian Steel Association

Dilip Oommen
  • Indian Steel Association (ISA) has selected Dilip Oommen as its new President. He is presently the CEO of Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India. He was unanimously appointed as President for the next two years.

Prime Minister of Lesotho, Thomas Thabane abdicates

Thomas Thabane
  • Thomas Thabane has formally left as the Prime Minister of Lesotho. Thabane and his current wife are surmised of conspiring to murder his former wife nearly three years ago.

Alibaba’s Jack Ma leaves from SoftBank board

Jack Ma
  • Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma will be leaving from the SoftBank board of directors. Jack Ma serving for nearly 13 years on the board. Ma is supposed to resign from the Group’s board on June 25.

PM of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu sworn-in for the fifth time

Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again swore in his new government on 17 May for the fifth time. The ceremony of the swearing-in of Israel’s new government, the Knesset, was kept in accordance with COVID-19 social distancing directives.

WTO chief Roberto Azevedo resigns from post

Roberto Azevedo
  • The head of the World Trade Organization, Roberto Azevedo will resign from his post on August 31. He became the WTO chief in 2013.
  • The 62-year-old Brazilian career diplomat’s second four-year term was not scheduled to end until September 2021.

Kumar Sangakkara ready for 2nd term as MCC President

Kumar Sangakkara
  • Kumar Sangakkara is set to serve his second term as the president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
  • He became the first non-British President of the club when he assumed office on October 1 last year

UNEP continues actress Dia Mirza term as goodwill ambassador till 2022

UNEP continues actress Dia Mirza term as goodwill ambassador till 2022
  • The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on 7th May continued environmentalist and actor-producer Dia Mirza’s term as its National Goodwill Ambassador for another two years till the end of 2022.

Mustafa Al Kadhimi appointed as Iraq’s new Prime Minister

Mustafa Al Kadhimi
  • Mustafa Al Kadhimi has been appointed as Iraq’s new Prime Minister, ending months of political deadlock.
  • Mustafa Kadhimi has come up as Iraq’s first proper Prime Minister after Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned in November 2019 due to massive anti-government protests.

Professor Shobhana Narasimhan elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor shobhana narasimhan
  • Professor Shobhana Narasimhan from the Theoretical Sciences Unit (TSU) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), has been elected as an International Honorary Member to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
  • She has done significant work on the rational design of nanomaterials, examining how the lowering of dimensionality and reduction of size affect material properties.