NEW DELHI: Rahul Navin has been appointed director of the Enforcement Directorate. An order issued by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) said the appointment of Navin, a 1993-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the Income Tax cadre, has been made "for a period of two years..."

The ED director is an Additional Secretary (AS) rank post in the Union government and Mr Navin was empanelled as an AS in December last year.

Navin joined the ED in November, 2019 as a Special Director (OSD) to spearhead the agency's work on India's mutual evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global body that leads action against money laundering.

He is a B. Tech and an M. Tech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He was appointed acting director of the ED after the tenure of his predecessor Sanjay Kumar Mishra ended in September 2023.