Sandeep Pradhan has been appointed as a Whole-Time Member on the board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India

Sandeep Pradhan has been appointed as a Whole-Time Member on the board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

•             He will serve a three-year term starting from the day he assumes charge.

•             A notification from the Department of Economic Affairs conferred his appointment.

•             He is a 1990-batch IRS officer and currently the Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) in Pune.

•             He previously headed the Sports Authority of India and also served as the CEO of the Khelo India programme.

•             SEBI has four Whole-Time Member positions. Amarjeet Singh and Kamlesh Chandra Varshney are serving as Whole-Time Members.

•             Additionally, SEBI has two part-time members.They are Deepti Gaur Mukerjee and Anuradha Thakur.

•             Pradhan fills a vacancy created after Ananth Narayan G’s term ended in October.

•             Another vacancy was created after Ashwani Bhatia’s tenure ended in May.