New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Rajeev Topno, the 1996 batch IAS officer, who was the private secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been appointed as senior advisor to the World Bank Executive Director (ED), a personnel ministry order issued on Thursday said.
Besides him, Brajendra Navnit, a 1999 batch IAS officer who served in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has been chosen as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Geneva, Switzerland.
These appointments assume significance as India is grappling with an economic crisis due to coronavirus pandemic and these organisations play an important role in deciding different trade-related activities.
Five other officers have been appointed to different economic and trade-related posts abroad.
- Senior IAS officer Ravi Kota will be Minister (Economic) at the Indian embassy in Washington.
- Lekhan Thakkar, a Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer, has been appointed Counsellor (Economic) at the Indian Embassy in Beijing, China.
- H Atheli, a 2000 batch officer of the Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS), will be Advisor (Director level) to ED, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines.
- Anwar Hussain Shaik has been appointed Counsellor, Permanent Mission of India to the WTO. He is an Indian Railway Traffic Service officer of 2000 batch.
- N Ashok Kumar will be Advisor (Industry and Engineering), Embassy of India, Brussels, Belgium. He is a 2004 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.
According to the aforementioned order, all these officers will have a tenure of three years.
With inputs from PTI
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