Organisation Heads & Headquarters - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

ANSWER: Hoesung Lee

Explanation:
South Korean climate change expert Housing Lee was elected as new chief of IPCC succeeding RK Pachauri who resigned following allegations of sexual harassment. Lee is currently professor of economics of climate change, energy and sustainable development at Korea University in Seoul. He was also the vice chairman of the IPCC since the year 2008. He has become the fourth IPCC head after Bert Bolin, Bob Watson and RK Pachauri. Pachauri served in the IPCC for the longest period of time, having been elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2008. Lee was 1 of 6 candidates contesting for the post of IPCC head. Others in the fray included Stanford University’s Chris Field, Jean Pascal van Ypersele from Belgium, Ogunlade Davidson (Sierra Leone), Nebojsa Nakicenovic (Austria and Montenegro) and Thomas Stocker of Switzerland. IPCC was created in 1988 as a project of UNEP and WMO.

ANSWER: John T. Chambers

Explanation:
Executive chairman of Cisco, John T Chambers was elected on 21 September 2015 as the next Chairman of US-India Business Council’s (USIBC) by the Council’s Board of Directors. He succeeded Banga, President and CEO of MasterCard, who has been the longest-serving chairman of the Council. He will assume charge w.e.f January 1 2016. Established in 1975, the council aims to advance commercial partnerships between India and the US from USD 100 to 500 billion. Mukesh Aghi is its president.

ANSWER: Director Mahesh Rangrajan

Explanation:
Director Mahesh Rangrajan has submitted his resignation to the executive council of NMML. Joint Secretary in cultural ministry in charge of NMML will be made into the officiating director. Rangarajan was appointed Director of NMML in June 2014 by the UPA government headed by PM Manmohan Singh. He is a teacher and author with special interest in environment and colonial history. NMML is a memorial to Jawaharlal Nehru and it is located in the Teen Murti House campus at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Teen Murti house was designed by R. T. Russel and building during 1929-1930 as part of Edwin Lutyen’s imperial capital.

ANSWER: Ramesh Chand

Explanation:
The Niti Aayog is headed by well known economist A. Panagariya and has two other members namely Bibek Debroy and V. K. Saraswat. While the former is an economist, the latter is former DRDO chief. Ramesh Chand, a noted agriculturalist has joined as a third member to revive the agriculture sector and boost its growth and progress as well as strategies for reforms and identifying successful experiments from which all states can learn.

ANSWER: Masdar

Explanation:
Masdar city is located in UAE that relies completely on solar energy and other renewable sources of energy. Masdar city is also known as world’s first zero-carbon and car-free smart city.

ANSWER: Dr. R. K. Pachauri

Explanation:
Director General, TERI Dr. R K Pachauri has been removed. He will be replaced by Dr Ajay Mathur. Dr Pachauri was accused of sexual harassment by his junior colleague. 74-year-old Pachauri had shared Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former US Vice President Al Gore for work on climate issues. He has led and built The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI, over the last 34 years from a concept to a major, financially autonomous, professionally dynamic organization on the global stage.

ANSWER: Hisao Tinaka

Explanation:
Hisao Tanaka resignation came as a backdrop of appointment of an independent panel by Toshiba which pointed that the firm had overstated its operating profit by a total of 151.8bn yen (1.22 billion US dollar). He will be succeeded by Masashi Muromachi, who is presently the Chairman of Toshiba.

ANSWER: Jin Liqun

Explanation:
He is the former Finance Minster of China. He was nominated by China to be the first president of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

ANSWER: Christine Lagarde

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ANSWER: Deepak Malaviya

Explanation:
He was elected at the General Council Meeting held in New Delhi yesterday. He is the youngest President of the organisation. The 94 year old welfare organisation was established by Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai. Octogenarian Sarvodaya leader and socialite Kirti Bhai Pandya has been elected as Vice President and journalist and littérateur Niranjan Rath as National Secretary of the organisation.