Recent Appointments Dec-23
Robert Shetkintong appointed High Commissioner of India to Republic of Mozambique
Robert Shetkintong, a 2001 batch IFS officer, has been appointed as the High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Mozambique. He is currently serving as the Ambassador of India to Ethiopia since 2020. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.
Mozambique:
- Capital: Maputo
- President: Filipe Nyusi
- Prime Minister: Adriano Maleiane
- Currency: Mozambican metical
- Capital: Amsterdam
- Official language: Dutch
- Government: Monarchy, Representative democracy
- Capital: Wellington
- Government: Parliamentary system, Unitary state, Constitutional monarchy
- Continent: Oceania
- Currency: New Zealand dollar
- Capital: Quito
- President: Daniel Noboa
- Currency: United States Dollar
- Continent: South America
- Official language: Spanish
- Capital: Kolkata
- Governor: C. V. Ananda Bose
- Chief minister: Mamata Banerjee
- Capital: Luxembourg City.
- Currency:
- Main official languages: German, French and Luxembourgish.
- Ruler: King-like Grand Duke.
- Capital: Buenos Aires
- Vice President: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- Currency: Argentine peso
- Founder: Uday Kotak
- Founded: 21 November 1985
- Headquarters: Mumbai
- Capital: Madrid
- Monarch: Felipe VI
- Prime Minister: Pedro Sánchez
- Currency: Euro
- Founded: 1989
- Headquarters: United Kingdom
- Chairman, CEO: Carmine Di Sibio
- Global Chair, CEO: Janet Truncale
- Services: Assurance, Tax advisory, Digital strategy, Strategy consulting, Financial advisory, Legal
- Capital: London
- Monarch: Charles III
- Prime Minister: Rishi Sunak
- Currency: Pound sterling
- Headquarters: New York, United States
- CEO: NV Tyagarajan Founder: Pramod Bhasin
- Subsidiaries: Genpact India Private Limited,
- Genpact India, etc.
- Founded: 1997
- Capital: Dhaka
- Prime minister: Sheikh Hasina
- President: Mohammed Shahabuddin
- Chairperson: Dinesh Kumar Khara
- Founded: 1 July 1955
- Headquarters: Mumbai
- Tagline: Pure Banking, Nothing Else
Meet Geert Wilders, the next likely prime minister of the Netherlands
Geert Wilders has long been one of the most wellknown lawmakers in the Netherlands and abroad. Nicknamed the Dutch Donald Trump, he is famous for his strident campaigning against immigration, the European Union (EU), and, in particular, Islam. Now, he’s in pole position to become the country’s next prime minister, after a surprising victory in general election. All he has to do now is persuade potential coalition partners in other parties to join forces with him.
Geert Wilders on Nupur Sharma, Kashmir
Sharma over her controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad.
Netherlands
New Zealand announces new coalition govt
Three New Zealand political leaders have agreed to form the next coalition government, capping off more than a month of negotiations over their policy agenda and setting the stage for conservative leader Christopher Luxon to become prime minister. Luxon, who leads the centre-right National Party, announced that his party struck an alliance with the conservative ACT and populist New Zealand First parties, giving them enough seats to govern. Luxon’s National Party won 38 percent of the vote in New Zealand’s October 14 elections, the largest proportion of any party, while the ACT won 9 percent and New Zealand First 6 percent.
New Zealand:
Daniel Noboa sworn in as Ecuador’s President
Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, was sworn in as Ecuador’s President, a role that citizens are demanding he uses to restore the public safety that drug cartels and other criminal organizations robbed them of at the decade’s start. Mr. Noboa’s term will run only through May 2025, which is what remains of former President Guillermo Lasso’s tenure. Mr. Lasso cut his term short when he dissolved the National Assembly in May as lawmakers pursued impeachment proceedings against him.Ecuador:
Sourav Ganguly to be Bengal’s new brand ambassador
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced former BCCI president and Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly as the new brand ambassador of West Bengal. Ganguly would be replacing actor Shah Rukh Khan. He is the only Bengali skipper to have captained the Indian side at the international level and also managed the board as the President.
West Bengal:
Luc Frieden Takes Charge As Prime Minister Of Luxembourg
Luc Frieden takes over as the new Prime Minister of Luxembourg. Luxembourg is a small country in Western Europe. Belgium, France and Germany surround it. Luxembourg has a parliamentary democracy, while the king is constitutionally supreme. Luxembourg is a developed country, where per capita GDP is the highest. Luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union, NATO, the United Nations, the European Union and the OECD, reflecting the consensus on economic, political and military integration in the country.
Luxembourg:
Argentina elects right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as its new president
Argentina has elected right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as its new president. With 97. 6% of votes tallied in presidential runoff vote, Milei had 55. 8% and Economy Minister Sergio Massa 44. 2%, according to Argentina’s electoral authority.
Argentina:
Kotak Bank board appointed Ashok Vaswani as MD, CEO
The board of Kotak Mahindra Bank approved the appointment of Ashok Vaswani as a Director, Managing Director and the CEO of the bank. Vaswani, who has worked with Barclays in the recent past, will succeed Uday Kotak, who quit as the MD of the bank effective September 1. At present, Vaswani is the President of Pagaya Technologies Ltd — a USIsraeli AI Fintech player.
Kotak Mahindra Bank:
RBI nod to appointment of Isha Ambani, 2 others as directors of Jio Financial Services
As per Jio Financial Services, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had approved the appointment of three directors to its board. RBI vide letter has accorded its approval for the appointment of Isha Mukesh Ambani, Anshuman Thakur and Hitesh Kumar Sethia as directors of the company. The nod approval is valid for six months from the approval date. In case the company fails to give effect to the proposal within the time frame, it would have to apply again citing the reason for not carrying out earlier the proposed changes
Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez Re-elected Spanish PM
In Spain, Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has clinched the vote in parliament to lead the country for another term as prime minister. Mr Sánchez won an absolute majority in the investiture vote, securing the support of 179 members of Spain’s 350 Member Parliament. The conservative Popular Party won elections in July, however its leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed to form a majority.
Spain:
EY Names Janet Truncale As First Female CEO Of Big Four Firm
Ernst & Young LLP picked Janet Truncale as its next chief executive officer, placing the first woman atop a Big Four audit firm. She will succeed Carmine Di Sibio. Di Sibio took over as global chair and chief executive in 2019, having risen through the ranks of EY’s US business serving financial services clients, including Goldman Sachs. Truncale most recently was the regional managing partner for EY’s financial services organization, which includes 14,000 professionals
Ernst & Young:
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Appoints David Cameron as Foreign Secretary
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak carried out a major Cabinet reshuffle, firing controversial Home Secretary Suella Braverman. In another move, he brought back one of his predecessors David Cameron as Foreign Secretary. Cameron, who resigned as prime minister in 2016 after Britain voted to leave the European Union, in a referendum that he called, replaced him.
UK:
Razorpay makes Rahul Kothari chief operating officer for India, Malaysia
Razorpay has made Rahul Kothari, the fintech company’s chief business officer (CBO), its chief operating officer (COO) for India and Malaysia. Kothari gets the new role at a time when Razorpay is expanding globally, focusing on South East Asia first, He will guide the company’s strategy to achieve revenue goals in India and Malaysia. Razorpay, which started in 2014, claims to provide payment technology solutions to more than 10 million businesses.
Balkrishan ‘B K’ Kalra became the CEO of Genpact
- Genpact:
Bangladesh PM’s daughter Saima Wazed nominated as WHO’s South-East Asia director
The World Health Organization selected the daughter of Bangladesh’s prime minister Saima Wazed to be its South-East Asia director. She beat Nepal’s Shambhu Acharya, 65, a professor of global health at the University of Washington with over three decades of experience working in senior WHO roles, in a secret ballot. Wazed accompanied her mother to several high-profile diplomatic events, including the G20 summit in New Delhi, BRICS Summit in South Africa and the United Nations General Assembly.
Bangladesh:
Heeralal Samariya appointed as chief information commissioner
Information Commissioner Heeralal Samariya was sworn in as the chief of the Central Information Commission (CIC) by President Droupadi Murmu. The top post of the transparency panel was lying vacant after Y K Sinha’s term ended on October 3. After Samariya’s appointment as the Chief Information Commissioner, there exists a vacancy of eight Information Commissioners. At present, there are two Information Commissioners in the Commission. The Commission is headed by the Chief Information Commissioner and can have a maximum of 10 Information Commissioners.
PM Modi reappointed as chairman of Shri Somnath Trust
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue as the chairman of Shri Somnath Trust for another five-year term. A decision to this effect was taken during a recent meeting, chaired by the Trust’s Chairman and Prime Minister Modi, at the Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar.
SBI ropes in MS Dhoni as ambassador, to be part of marketing campaigns
The country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has announced its collaboration with cricketing legend Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its official brand ambassador. As the brand ambassador of SBI, Dhoni will play a pivotal role in various marketing and promotional campaigns.
SBI:
Priya Nair elevated to Unilever’s leadership team
Unilever has announced changes to its Unilever Leadership Executive (ULE). India born executive Priya Nair, currently Chief Marketing Officer, Beauty & Wellbeing, has been appointed President, Beauty & Wellbeing, replacing Fernando Fernandez. Fernando, currently President of Unilever’s Beauty & Wellbeing Business Group, will replace Graeme Pitkethly, who announced his decision to retire from the company earlier this year. Fernando’s appointment is effective from January 1, 2024, and he will join the Board with effect from that date. As a result of these changes, from January 1, 2024, the ULE will include, among others, three Indian executives — Priya Nair; Rohit Jawa, President South Asia and CEO & Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever; and Nitin