1. Smriti Mandhana
- Smriti Mandhana is named in ICC T10I team of the year.
- She is an Indian cricketer and the highest scorer in 2021.
2. Dr. Albert Bourla
- Dr. Albert Bourla is awarded the Genesis Prize 2022.
- He is the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer.
- The cash amount for the Genesis Prize is $1 Million.
3. Vinod Rai
- Vinod Rai is appointed as the Independent Chairman of Unity Small Finance Bank(SFB).
- He the former Comptroller and Auditor General(CAG)
- Unity Small Finance Bank(SFB) is the 12th small finance bank and opened as a joint venture between Centrum Group and BharatPe.
4. Mia Mottley
- Mia Mottley is appointed as the Prime Minister of Barbados.
- She is elected for the 2nd Consecutive term.
- She is the first female PM of Barbados and the 8th person to hold the seat of Prime Minister in Barbados.
5. Raghuvendra Tanwar
- Raghuvendra Tanwar is appointed as the Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
- He is the Professor emeritus of Kurukshetra University.
- He will assume office for 3 years.
6. Prajakta Koli
- Prajakta Koli is named as the “Youth Climate Champion”
- The appointment was made by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India.
- She is a famous YouTuber and actor.
7. Vinod Anand Jha
- Vinod Anand Jha is appointed as the New Chairperson of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) Adjudicating Authority, New Delhi.
- He was appointed by the Finance Ministry.
- He is a retired IRS officer and served as the Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax in Pune, Maharastra.
8. Arun Kumar Purwar
- Arun Kumar Purwar is appointed as the Chairman of IIFL Finance.
- He is the former SBI Chairman.
9. Pushp Kumar Joshi
- Pushp Kumar Joshi is appointed as the new Chairman & Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation(HPCL).
- He will succeed Mukesh Kumar Surana.
- He currently serves as the Director of Human Resources at HPCL.
10. Anantha Nageswaran
- Anantha Nageswaran is appointed as the new Chief Economic Advisor of India.
- He will succeed K V Subramanian.
- He is a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (PM) of India from 2019 to 2021.
- He also served as the Dean of the IFMR Graduate School of Business.
11. Urjit Patel
- Urjit Patel is appointed as the Vice President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
- He will serve for 3 years starting from 1st February 2022 to 2025.
- He is the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
- He will succeed D J Pandian.
12. Haitham Al Ghais
- Haitham Al Ghais is appointed as the New Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
- He is appointed for a tenure of 3 years.
- He previously served as the Governor of OPEC and as the Director of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
13. Bharath Subramaniyam
- Bharath Subramaniyam became India’s 73rd Chess Grandmaster(GM).
- He is a 14-year-old Chess Player from Chennai.
14. Alikhan Smailov
- Alikhan Smailov is the New Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.
- He is followed by the Resignation of Askar Mamin Cabinet.
- He previously served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
15. Daniel Ortega
- Daniel Ortega is the President of Nicaragua.
- He was sworn in for the 5th term as the President of Nicaragua.
16. Clive Lloyd
- Former West Indies Cricketer Clive Lloyd receives Knighthood.
- He received this from Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle.
17. S. Somanath
- Somanath is appointed as the new Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO).
- He will succeed K. Sivan.
- Mr. Somanth will be the 10th Chairman of ISRO.
- He is the senior space scientist in Gaganyaan, India’s 1st Huma Spaceflight mission.
18. Shaylyn Ford
- Shaylyn Ford wins Mrs. World 2022 award.
- She is from the United States.
- She was crowned by the 2020 Mrs. World Kate Schneider from Ireland.
19. Vikram Dev Dutt
- Vikram Dev Dutt is appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.
- He is appointed by the Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).
- He is currently serving as the Principal Secretary, Tourism in the Government of Delhi.
- He succeeded Rajiv Bansal.
20. Roberta Metsola
- Roberta Metsola is appointed as the New President of the European Union(EU) Parliament.
- She is the youngest-ever President and only the third woman to head the EU Parliament.
- She succeeded David Sassoli who passed away.
- She is 43 years old politician from Malta.
21. Vijay Shekhar Sharma
- Vijay Shekhar Sharma is appointed as the Ambassador for the Universal Acceptance Steering Group.
- Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder of Paytm.
- Universal Acceptance Steering Group, is an international organization that works on developing and recommending standards for language scripts that are not currently used for accessing the internet.
22. Dimitar Kovacevski
- Dimitar Kovacevski is elected as the New Prime Minister of North Macedonia.
- He is the leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia.
- He was the former deputy finance Minister of Macedonia.
- He has succeeded Zoran Zaev who resigned as the Prime Minister on December 2021.
23. Harshaali Malhotra
- Actress Harshaali Malhotra has been awarded the 12th Bharat Ratna Dr. Ambedkar Award 2022.
- She has done her performance as Munni, in the 2015 film Bajrangi Bhaijaan starring Salman Khan.
24. Zhang Ming
- Zhang Ming is appointed as the New Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO).
- Zhang succeeded Vladimir Norov.
- Zhang is a Veteran Chinese Diplomat.
25. Jhulan Goswami
- Jhulan Goswami is appointed as the Ambassador to Legends League Cricket (LLC) to promote women's empowerment.
- LLC has set up a women's match official team.
- Jhulan Goswami is an Indian woman cricketer.
26. Shafali Verma
- Shafali Verma is appointed as the Brand Endorser of the Bank of Baroda.
- Shafali Verma is an Indian Women Cricketer.
27. G Asok Kumar
- G Asok Kumar is appointed as the new Director-General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga.
- He is popularly known as the “Rain Man of India” for his excellent work in rainwater harvesting under the “Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain”.
28. Vinay Kumar Tripathi
- Vinay Kumar Tripathi is appointed as the New Chairman and CEO of the Railway Board.
- He is currently working as the General Manager of North Eastern Railway, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
- He succeeds Suneet Sharma.
