1 Sep 2020
Neta·Resume
Appointed by the President on the Union government's advice; took charge 23 Jan 2018. No selection committee existed then. Before the 2023 Act there was no statute on selection: the Union government, by convention, picked senior serving or retired Secretary-rank officers and the President appointed on its advice, with the senior-most EC normally elevated to CEC (as described by the Supreme Court in Anoop Baranwal, 2 Mar 2023).
source ↗Rajiv Kumar took office as Election Commissioner on 1 September 2020, filling the vacancy left by Ashok Lavasa, under the executive-appointment convention.
Dates are from the tenure table in the Supreme Court's Anoop Baranwal judgment (paragraph 52), which records the executive-only convention in force until 2 March 2023: the President appointed on the Prime Minister's advice, usually a serving or retired Secretary-rank civil servant, and the senior-most EC was elevated to CEC. The table's columns are garbled in the Indian Kanoon text; individual gazette notifications were not opened.
Education: B.A. (English Hons) and M.A. English Literature, Delhi University; MBA, Southern Cross University; M.Phil (Defence and Strategic Studies), University of Madras - per ECI profile and ADB
The source lists these without dates. They appear in the source's order.