NEW DELHI: India has appointed Tuhin Kanta Pandey, (pic) the top bureaucrat in its Finance Ministry, to head the country’s capital markets regulator, according to a government notification Thursday (Feb 27).
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved Pandey’s appointment initially for a period of three years, it said. Pandey would replace Madhabi Puri Buch, whose term ends Feb. 28, as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
