Topic: Director-General
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: WHO Director-General re-elected
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) with overwhelming support after running unopposed for a second term. What is the career profile...
WTO members fail to agree on an interim leader due to political differences
The World Trade Organization has not been able to select a caretaker chief due to an impasse among the members who must agree by November on a replacement...
Arun Kumar Appointed as Vice-Chairman of International Union of Railways Security Platform
Arun Kumar, the Director-General of the Railway Protection Force, has been appointed as the VICE-Chairman of the Security Platform of the International Union of Railways. It has been...
ITBP DG S S Deswal given charge of NSG
ITBP Director General S S Deswal was given additional charge of counter-terror force National Security Guard (NSG). He will take over from incumbent NSG DG Sudeep Lakhtakia who...
Kumar Rajesh Chandra appointed Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal
The appointment of Kumar Rajesh Chandra as the Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has been approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. As per the notification, he would...
Shekhar Mande appointed as Director-General of CSIR
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has appointed Dr. Shekhar Mande as the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary of the Department...
Senior IPS officer Rajni Kant Misra appointed Director General of BSF
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has appointed senior IPS officer Rajni Kant Misra as Director General of Border Security Force (BSF). He has been tasked to head...
Portugal’s Antonio Vitorino elected Director General of UN’s International Migration Office
Portugal’s Antonio Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino (61) was elected as next Director General (DG) of International Organization for Migration (IOM), an UN Migration Agency. He will succeed...
