{"id":999402,"date":"2026-03-26T08:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999402"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:19:37","slug":"sunil-mittal-to-retire-as-chair-of-airtel-africa-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/26\/sunil-mittal-to-retire-as-chair-of-airtel-africa-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Mittal to retire as chair of Airtel Africa in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Sunil Bharti Mittal will be retiring as chair of Airtel Africa Board in July and Gopal Vittal will be appointed as non-executive chair. <\/p>\n<p>As per a statement by Airtel Africa, Mittal, who has served as Chair since the company&#8217;s listing in 2019, has informed the Board of his intention to retire at the conclusion of this year&#8217;s AGM in July 2026. The Board has also announced that Vittal will be appointed Non\u2011Executive Chair of the Board with effect from the same date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Sunil Bharti Mittal will be retiring as chair of Airtel Africa Board in July and Gopal Vittal will be appointed as non-executive chair. As per a statement by Airtel Africa, Mittal, who has served as Chair since the company&#8217;s listing in 2019, has informed the Board of his intention to retire at the conclusion of this year&#8217;s AGM in July 2026. The Board has also announced that Vittal will be appointed Non\u2011Executive Chair of the Board with effect from the same date.<\/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-999402","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\/999402","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=999402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}