♦ Ajay Seth was appointed Finance Secretary in the Union Ministry of Finance on 24 March 2025.

♦ He is currently the secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs in the finance ministry and holds additional charge as revenue secretary.

♦ Ajay is a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service officer from the Karnataka cadre. He was the officer-in-charge of the finance track of the Group of 20 (G20) under India’s presidency.

♦ The role of the finance secretary usually goes to the senior-most officer in the finance ministry. The post had fallen vacant after the previous finance secretary, Tuhin Kanta Pandey, was appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).