Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)

February 19, 2025

Gyanesh Kumar has been appointed as India’s 26^th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC).
He is a 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Kerala cadre.
He is an IIT Kanpur graduate in Civil Engineering, also studied Business Finance at ICFAI and Environmental Economics at Harvard.
The Chief Election Commissioner heads the Election Commission of India, a constitutional body responsible for administering elections to the Parliament, State Legislatures, and the offices of the President and Vice-President.