List of New Appointments in the World in PDF (2015-16)

Whether you are preparing for Railways RRB or SSC CGL, or you are focussed on
Bank exams, you are bound to find a few questions on Current Affairs in your
General Awareness section. So be prepared to tackle it all! Here is a list of new
appointments in the world in PDF format for the year 2015-16. Download the PDF
now for complete revision later.

In this list you can find which person was appointed to which important post in
which country or organization, and learn all the trivia associated with them.

Key Appointments - World (2015-16)

Name Posting in Name of Post Trivia
NATO: North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
John Nicholson Afghanistan NATO Commander
Safeguards freedom and
security of its members.
VP and Chief Investment AIIB: Asian Infrastructure
D J Pandian India
Officer of AIIB Investment Bank.
Head of Mission and UNDOF: United Nations
Major General Jai United
Force Commander of Disengagement Observer
Shanker Menon Nations
UNDOF Force.
UNHCR: United Nations
Filippo Grandi Italy UNHCR Chief High Commissioner for
Refugees.
Mauricio Macri Leader of centre-right
Argentina President
Blanco Cambiemos coalition.
Secretary General of
1st woman to occupy the post
Patricia Scotland Britain Commonwealth of
in the block's history.
Nations
Special Representative
UNOSOM: United Nations
Michael Keating UK for Somalia and Head of
Operation in Somalia.
UNSOM
Permanent
Syed Akbaruddin UN Representative of India to Succeeding Asoke Mukerji.
UN
IMF: International
Monetary Fund.
Subir Gokarn IMF IMF's Executive Director
Former RBI Deputy
Governor.
 Speaker of US House of
Paul Ryan US Republican Party Member.
Representatives
Leader of Coalition of the
Alexis Tsipras Greece Prime Minister
Radical Left (Syriza).
A group of islands off the
A R Rahman Seychelles Cultural Ambassador
coast of Southeast Africa.
Ashok-Alexander Nations 1st Indian origin
Germany Mayor of Bonn
Sridharan mayor.
Onsari Gharti 1st female speaker of Nepal
Nepal House Speaker
Magar Parliament.
Surendra Kumar 1st non-Muslim Chief Justice
Bangladesh Chief Justice
Sinha of Bangladesh.
Kanagasabapathy Former Deputy Solicitor
Sri Lanka Chief Justice
J Sripavan General.
Ameenah Gurib 1st woman President of
Mauritius President
Fakim Mauritius.
British structural biologist.
Sir Venkatraman President of Britain Royal
Britain Jointly won 2009 Nobel
Ramakrishnan Society
Prize in Chemistry.
Known for his work in
Maurice Obstfeld IMF Chief Economist
international economics.
Chairman of US-India
John T Chambers US Executive Chairman of Cisco
Business Council
Petroleum minister under
Sherif Ismail Egypt Prime Minister
former PM.
Serbian tennis player.
Goodwill Ambassador of
Novak Djokovic UN Ranked No. 1 in men's
(UNICEF)
singles.
Ranil Leader of United National
Sri Lanka Prime Minister
Wickremesinghe Party.
Muhammadu Retired Nigerian Army
Nigeria President
Buhari major general.
Group of small islands in
Peter M Christian Micronesia President
western Pacific Ocean.
1st President of New
K V Kamath BRICS President
Development Bank (NDB).
Mohammed bin Crown Prince and Deputy Member of House of Saud &
Saudi Arab
Nayef Prime Minister nephew of King Salman.
Criminal court judge of 1st India-born woman judge
Raja Rajeswari USA
New York City in NYC.
1st black female AG of
Loretta Lynch USA Attorney General
United States
Dr. Mohan Ambassador of India to Former Indian ambassador
France
Kumar France to Bahrain.
Pedro Cateriano
Peru Prime Minister 7th PM of Peru.
Bellido
David Hale USA Ambassador to Pakistan United States diplomat.
UN Special Coordinator
Nickolay Bulgarian politician and
UN for Middle East Peace
Mladenov diplomat.
Process
12th President of Italy.
Sergio Mattarella Italy President
1st Sicilian to hold the post.
Judicial Commissioner to Has powers equivalent to
Kannan Ramesh Singapore
Supreme Court bench Supreme Court judge.
Ashton B Carter USA Secretary of Defense 25th Secretary of Defense.
Pakistans Ambassador to Represent Pakistan on all
Maleeha Lodhi UN
UN platforms of the UN.
Sardar
Chief Election Retired judge of Pakistan
Muhammad Raza Pakistan
Commissioner SC.
Khan

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