{"id":1015244,"date":"2026-06-18T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015244"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:05:55","slug":"bharti-airtel-appoints-rahul-vatts-as-corporate-affairs-head-group-chief-regulatory-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/bharti-airtel-appoints-rahul-vatts-as-corporate-affairs-head-group-chief-regulatory-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel appoints Rahul Vatts as corporate affairs head, group chief regulatory officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s Bharti Airtel has elevated Rahul Vatts as the director of corporate affairs and group chief regulatory officer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this expanded role, Rahul will lead the corporate affairs team and drive stakeholder engagement across industry and government, shaping the company\u2019s public policy position and regulatory strategy,\u201d Airtel said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that Vatts will be the primary government and regulator interface for the telecom company. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis move is in line with the company\u2019s commitment to strengthen its corporate affairs capability as the brand extends beyond telecom,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s Bharti Airtel has elevated Rahul Vatts as the director of corporate affairs and group chief regulatory officer. \u201cIn this expanded role, Rahul will lead the corporate affairs team and drive stakeholder engagement across industry and government, shaping the company\u2019s public policy position and regulatory strategy,\u201d Airtel said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that Vatts will be the primary government and regulator interface for the telecom company. \u201cThis move is in line with the company\u2019s commitment to strengthen its corporate affairs capability as the brand extends beyond telecom,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015260,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015244\/revisions\/1015260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}