HEADS OF THE IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS 2008
United Nations
● Ban Ki-Moon—General-Secretary, UNO
● Koichiro Matsuura—Director-General, UNESCO
● Margaret Chan—Director-General, WHO
● Juan Somavia—Director-General, ILO
● Jacques Diouf—Director-General, FAO
● Anders Liden—President, UNICEF
● Hamadoun Toure—General-Secretary, ITU
● Edouard Dayan—General-Secretary, UPU
● Rosalyn Higgins—President, International Court of Justice
● Mohammed El Baradei—General-Secretary, IAEA
Heads of International Organizations
● Kamlesh Sharma—General-Secretary, Commonwealth of Nations
● Dr. Sheel Kant Sharma—General-Secretary, SAARC
● Pascal Lamy—Director-General, WTO
● Jaap de Hoop Scheffer—General-Secretary, NATO
● Bolat Kabdylkhamitovich Nurgaliev—General-Secretary, Shanghai Cooperation Organization
● Dr. Surin Pitsuwan—General-Secretary, ASEAN
● Abdalla Salem El-Badri—General-Secretary, OPEC
● Amr Moussa—General-Secretary, Arab League Heads of International Financial Organizations
● Dominque Strauss-Kahn—Managing Director, IMF
● Robert Zoellick—President, World Bank
● Haruhiko Kuroda—President, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
● Angel Gurria—Secretary-General Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Heads of Important Indian Government Offices
● Smt. Pratibha Patil—President
● Dr. Manmohan Singh—Prime Minister
● Mohammad Hamid Ansari—Vice-President (Chairman Rajya Sabha)
● A. K. Antony—Defence Minister
● Pranab Mukherjee—External Affairs Minister
● Shivraj V. Patil—Home Affairs Minister
● Lalu Prasad Yadav—Railways Minister
● Arjun Singh—Human Resource Development Minister
● P. Chidambaram—Finance Minister
Heads of Important Industry and Trade Organization
● Rajeev Chandrashekhar—Chairman, FICCI
● Sunil Bharati Mittal—Chairman, CII
● Venugopal N. Dhoot—President, ASSOCHAM
● L. K. Malhotra—President, PHDCCI
● Genesh Natarajan—Chairman, NASSCOM
● Prasanna Kumar Misra—Chairman, CBDT
● P. J. Jha—Chairman, CBEC
● C. Rangarajan—Chairman, Economic Advisory Council
● S. Sridhar—Chairman and MD, National Housing Bank
Chairman/Chairpersons of Important Commissions
● Dr. Manmohan Singh—Chairman, Planning Commission
● Girija Vyas—Chairperson, National Commission for Women
● Sompal Singh Shastri—Chairman, National Commission on Farmers
● Dr. Buta Singh—Chairman, National Schedule Caste Commission
● M. B. Shah—President, NCDRC
● Ratan Tata—Chairman, Investment Commission
● Mohammad Shafi Qureshi—Chairman, Minority Commission
● Subir Dutta—Chairman, UPSC
● Prof. Suresh Tendulkar—Chairman, National Statistical Commission.
● Prof. Sukhdeo Thorat—Chairman, University Grants Commission
● S. Rajendra Babu—Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission
● Bhupendra Kumar Rathi—Chairman, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practice Commission (MRTPC)
Heads of Important Companies
● Sarthak Behuria—Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation
● Radhe Shyam Sharma—Chairman and MD, ONGC
● S. K. Roongta—Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd.
● Keshab Mahindra—Chairman, Mahindra and Mahindra
● Sunil Bharati Mittal—Chairman and MD, Bharati Airtel
● C. Y. Pal—Chairman, Cadbury India Ltd.
● Harish Manwani—Chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited
● K. K. Patel—Chairman, Nirma Group
● Azim Premji—Chairman and CEO, WIPRO
● Anil Ambani—Chairman, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
Heads of Indian Financial Organizations
● O. P. Bhatt—Chairman, State Bank of India (SBI)
● P. J. Nayak—Chairman and CEO, AXIS Bank (UTI Bank)
● Dr. K. C. Banerjee—Chairman and MD, Punjab National Bank (PNB)
● C. B. Bhave—Chairman, SEBI
● T. S. Vijayan—Chairman, LIC
● Y. V. Reddy—Governor, RBI
● V. Ramaswamy—Chairman and MD, National Insurance Company Ltd.
● G. Srinivasan—Chairman and MD, United India Insurance Company Ltd.
● Yogesh Lohia—Chairman and MD, General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC)
Indian Ambassador/High Commissioner in Different Countries
● Ronen Sen—Ambassdor, USA
● Sujata Singh—High Commissioner, Australia
● Talmiz Ahmad—Ambassador, UAE
● Meera Shankar—Ambassador, Germany (Berlin)
● Nirupma Rao—Ambassador, China
● Alok Prasad Singh—High Commissioner, Sri Lanka
● K. P. Ernest—High Commissioner, New Zealand (Wellington)
● Navrekha Sharma—Ambassador, Indonesia
● Ranjan Mathai—Ambassador, France
Heads of Indian Judiciary
● Justice K. G. Balakrishnan—Chief Justice of India
● Milan Kumar Banerjee—Attorney General of India
● Justice Ashok Agrawal—Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)
● Goolam E. Vahanvati—Solicitor General of India
● Vikas Singh—Additional Solicitor General of India
Heads of Indian Armed Forces
● Smt. Pratibha Patil—Supreme Commander (President)
● Gen. Deepak Kapoor—Chief of the Army Staff
● Admiral Sureesh Mehta—Chief of the Naval Staff
● Fali H. Major—Chief of the Air Staff
● Vijay Shankar—Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command
● Raman Puri—Chief of Integrated Defence Staff
