Sunil Arora (born 13 April 1956) is a retired 1980 batch Indian administrative service (IPS) officer of Rajasthan cadre. Having served as a secretary to the government of India in two ministries, Arora is currently an election commissioner of India. Arora has graduate (BA Honours) and postgraduate (ma) degrees in English from Punjab in the union territory of Chandigarh. Before being appointed as an IAS officer, Sunil Arora served as an associate professor in DAV college in Jalandhar. as an IAS officer, Arora served in various key positions for both the government of India and the government of Rajasthan, including as the additional chief secretary (home), principal secretary (small industries), principal secretary (investment and protocol), chairman and managing director of the Rajasthan state industrial development and investment corporation, principal secretary to the chief minister of Rajasthan, and as the district magistrate and collector of Jodhpur, Nagaur, Alwar and Dholpur districts in the Rajasthan government, and as the union information and broadcasting secretary, union skill development and entrepreneurship secretary, chairperson and managing director of Indian airlines, and as joint secretary in the ministry of civil aviation in the Indian government.
Arora superannuated from service on 30 April 2016. Post-retirement, Arora was appointed the director general and chief executive officer of the Indian Institute of corporate affairs, and hence was deemed to have been re-employed into the IAS
Arora was previously brought in as the election commissioner in September last year to fill a vacancy by former CEC Nasim Zaidi's retirement.
He is 1980 batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre; he was the skill development secretary before he was appointed as the top bureaucrat in I&B ministry. He has also worked in ministries and departments such as finance, textiles and planning commission and also CMD of Indian airlines for five years.
President Kovind @rashtrapatibhvn appoints Sunil Arora as a new chief election commissioner. To take charge of 2nd December 2018 @indianexpress.
