Dr Mallika Nadda, President of Special Olympics Bharat, has been appointed as the chairperson of the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Advisory Council, for a period of three years.

• Mallika Nadda is wife of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda.
• She aso runs an organisation called Chetna Sanstha in Bilaspur.
• The sanstha is working towards women's empowerment and personality development of youth along with the disabled (differently abled) people.
• In her new role as chairperson of the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Advisory Council, Dr. Mallika Nadda will represent 35 countries as she has been working in the field of disability for over 30 years.