When it comes to MBA entrance exams life CMAT, IIFT, SNAP, etc. the knowledge of the heads of important organizations is really helpful. More often than not, you will end up getting couple of questions on these. There is also a reasonable chance that you will get a question of Match-The-Following type where this information would be really useful.
I have compiled a list of the current heads of important bodies and divided into two parts: India & International. Both of them are given below. (F) indicates that the person is a female.
India:
| Department / Position | Person |
| Attorney General of India | Goolam Essaji Vahanvati |
| Central Vigilance Commissioner | Pradeep Kumar |
| Chairman, ISRO | K Radhakrishnan |
| Chairman, LIC | D K Mehrotra |
| Chairman, NABARD | Prakash Bakshi |
| Chairman, NASSCOM | Natarajan Chandrasekaran |
| Chairman, National Knowledge Commission | Sam Pitroda |
| Chairman, Planning Commission | Manmohan Singh |
| Chairman, Press Council of India | Markandey Katju |
| Chairman, Press Trust of India | R Lakshmipathy |
| Chairman, SEBI | U K Sinha |
| Chairman, TRAI | Rahul Kullar |
| Chairman, UIDAI | Nandan Nilekani |
| Chief Economic Advisor | Raghuram Rajan |
| Chief Election Commissioner | V S Sampath |
| Chief Justice of India | Altamas Kabir |
| Chief of the Air Staff | Air Chief Marshall N A K Browne |
| Chief of the Army Staff | General Bikram Singh |
| Chief of the Naval Staff | Admiral D K Joshi |
| Comptroller and Auditor General | Vinod Rai |
| Defence Secretary | Shashi Kant Sharma |
| Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission | Montek Singh Ahluwalia |
| Director, BARC | Sekhar Basu |
| Director of the Enforcement Directorate | Rajan Katoch |
| Director, Intelligence Bureau | Syed Asif Ibrahim |
| Foreign Secretary | Ranjan Mathai |
| Governor, RBI | D. Subbarao |
| National Security Advisor | Shivshankar Menon |
| President, BCCI | N. Srinivasan |
| President, CII | Adi Godrej |
| President, FICCI | R V Kanoria |
| President, IOA | Abhay Singh Chautala |
| Principal Scientific Adviser | R Chidambaram |
International:
| Department / Position | Person |
| Commonwealth, Head | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Commonwealth, Secretary-General | Kamalesh Sharma |
| FIFA, President | Sepp Blatter |
| International Court of Justice, President | Peter Tomka |
| International Cricket Council, President | Alan Isaac |
| International Labor Organization (ILO), Director-General | Guy Ryder |
| International Monetory Fund (IMF), Managing Director | Christine Lagarde (F) |
| International Olympic Committee | Jacques Rogue |
| INTERPOL, President | Mireille Ballestrazzi (F) |
| INTERPOL, Secretary-General | Ronald Noble |
| NASA, Administrator | Charles F Bolden |
| OPEC, President | Rostam Ghasemi |
| OPEC, Secretary-General | Abdallah el-Badri |
| SAARC, Chairman | Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik |
| SAARC, Secretary-General | Ahmed Saleem |
| UNESCO, Director-General | Irina Bokova (F) |
| UNICEF, Executive Director | Anthony Lake |
| United Nations (UN), Secretary-General | Ban Ki Moon |
| World Bank, Chief Economist | Kaushik Basu |
| World Bank, President | Jim Yong Kim |
| World Health Organization (WHO), Director-General | Margaret Chan (F) |
| World Trade Organization (WTO), Director-General | Pascal Lamy |
I hope you will find this list useful. This list was last checked / updated on 18th February 2013.
- Ravi Handa
Ravi Handa, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, has been working in the CAT Prep sector for the past 7 years. He currently runs a website for XAT GK Preparation - XATGK.com
