Chief Information Commissioner


The Chief Information Commissioner of India is the head of the Central Information Commission appointed by the President of India. The tenure of the commissioners has been cut to three years in the new rules.
The following have held the post of the Central Information Commissioners.
No.NamePortraitTook officeLeft office
1Wajahat Habibullah26 10 200519 09 2010
2A. N. Tiwari30 09 201018 12 2010
3Satyananda Mishra19 12 201004 09 2013
4Deepak Sandhu05 09 201318 12 2013
5Sushma Singh19 12 201321 05 2014
6Rajiv Mathur22 05 201422 08 2014
7Vijai Sharma10 06 201501 12 2015
8Radha Krishna Mathur04 01 201624 11 2018
9Sudhir Bhargava01 01 201911 January 2020
10Bimal Julka19 02 202031 October 2020
11Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha7 November 20203 October 2023
12Heeralal Samariya6 November 202313 September 2025
13Raj Kumar Goyal15 December 2025