Airtel’s Gopal Vittal elected as GSMA chairman

Gopal Vittal, vice chairman and managing director, Bharti Airtel has been elected chairman of the board of Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA). He is the second Indian to take charge of the post after Sunil Mittal.

In February this year, Vittal took over as the acting chair in light of the the resignation of José Maria Álvares-Pallete, chairman and chief executive officer, Telefónica from the company, which consequently meant he could no longer continue in the position of the chair of the GSMA.