| 1. Sushil Chandra became the Chief Election Commissioner on April 12, 2021. |
| 2. He received training at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bengaluru. |
| 3. Sushil Chandra worked in the Indian Revenue Services for 38 years before becoming an Election Commissioner on February 15, 2019. |
| 4. Before his role at the Election Commission, he was the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in India. |
| 5. As CBDT Chairman in 2017, an initiative called 'Operation Clean Money' was launched under his leadership to tackle illegal wealth and black money. |
| 6. Sushil Chandra facilitated agreements for automatic information exchange between India and Switzerland to promote transparency. |
| 7. In 2019, Sushil Chandra's brother-in-law, Arvind Goel, was investigated by the Uttar Pradesh government for dubious land transactions involving black money. |