Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi

Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi served as 20th Chief Election Commissioner of India. He is a retired I.A.S. officer of 1976 batch from the muzzaffarnagar Uttar Pradesh cadre.^[1][2][3][4]

Nasim Zaidi
20th Chief Election Commissioner of India
In office 18 April 2015 – 6 July 2017
President	Pranab Mukherjee
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	H. S. Brahma
Succeeded by	Achal Kumar Jyoti
Election Commissioner of India
In office 7 August 2012 – 18 April 2015
President	Pranab Mukherjee
Personal details
Born	Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi (1952-07-06) 6 July 1952 (age 72) Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand), India
Alma mater	Harvard University
Profession	Civil servant

Education

Zaidi possesses a master's degree in Public Administration from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and has been a Mason Fellow for Public Policy at Harvard Institute for International Development.

Career

Dr. Zaidi has served as the Permanent Representative of India on the Council of ICAO from November 2005 to October 2008. He has served as the Director General of Civil Aviation. He retired from IAS as Secretary to the Government of India in Ministry of Civil Aviation on 31 July 2012.^[5] The first election in his tenure was 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.^[6]