As he completes a four-year term (2019-2023) in the position, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Girish Chandra Murmu has been re-elected as the External Auditor of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a renewed term from 2024 to 2027. He was confirmed on Monday, May 29, at the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, where he won the re-election with an overwhelming majority (114 out of 156 member state votes) in the very first round of voting.
This is not the only United Nations body of which Mr. Murmu is the external auditor, at the helm of carrying out financial, compliance and value for money audits. This is his second major international audit assignment after his selection for a 2024 to 2027 term as external auditor at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva. Besides being a popular auditor pick among international organisations, the 63-year-old career bureaucrat has held a long list of important positions in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, both when the latter was leading Gujarat as Chief Minister and now, as Prime Minister since 2014.
