Ex-NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to replace Piyush Goyal as India G20 Sherpa

Goyal has already been tasked with other pressing duties such as Leader of Rajya Sabha, which was given to him after his appointment as Sherpa

The Centre on Thursday appointed Amitabh Kant, former chief executive officer (CEO) of the government’s policy think tank NITI Aayog, as India’s Sherpa for the Group of Twenty (G20) grouping, replacing Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal.

The appointment comes ahead of India’s G20 Presidency from December 1, 2022, to November 30, 2023, culminating in the first-ever G20 summit to be organised by the country in 2023.

G20 is the premier forum for the world’s largest industrialised and emerging economies for international economic cooperation and plays a pivotal role in global economic governance.

Kant, a career bureaucrat who retired last month from