NEW DELHI: Preeti Sudan, former Union Health Secretary, has been appointed as the UPSC chairperson. In 2022, she was appointed as a member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
She will take charge as the UPSC chairperson starting August 1.
Sudan is a 1983 batch (retired) IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre. She superannuated as the health secretary in July 2020 and also served in the Women and Child Development and Defence Ministries.
In her cadre state Andhra Pradesh, she handled finance and planning, disaster management, tourism and agriculture.
The appointment comes after the former chairperson Manoj Soni had resigned earlier this month, ahead of the end of his tenure. He had resigned for “personal reasons”.
Sudan has earned a degree in Economics and Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and was trained in public finance management in Washington, as per reports.
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