Syed Nasim Zaidi is the incumbent Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Education
Doctor 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. He has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Finance from Indian Institute of Finance and holds doctorate in Biology-Chemistry.
Career
He is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of 1976 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He has served as the Director General of Civil Aviation. He retired from Institute for Advanced Study as Secretary to the Government of India in Ministry of Civil Aviation on 31 July 2012.
The first election in his tenure was Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015.