{"id":999662,"date":"2026-03-27T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999662"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:50:25","slug":"sunil-bharti-mittal-to-step-down-as-airtel-africa-chairman-gopal-vittal-to-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/sunil-bharti-mittal-to-step-down-as-airtel-africa-chairman-gopal-vittal-to-take-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Bharti Mittal to step down as Airtel Africa chairman, Gopal Vittal to take over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Africa on Wednesday said Sunil Bharti Mittal will retire as chairman of the board at the conclusion of the company\u2019s AGM in July 2026, signalling a change of guards. <\/p>\n<p>Gopal Vittal, who is the executive vice-chairman of Bharti Airtel, has been appointed as the non-executive chairman with effect from the same date, while Shravin Bharti Mittal, son of Sunil Mittal, will assume the role of deputy chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Africa on Wednesday said Sunil Bharti Mittal will retire as chairman of the board at the conclusion of the company\u2019s AGM in July 2026, signalling a change of guards. Gopal Vittal, who is the executive vice-chairman of Bharti Airtel, has been appointed as the non-executive chairman with effect from the same date, while Shravin Bharti Mittal, son of Sunil Mittal, will assume the role of deputy chair.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999662","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=999662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}