A dangerous optimist, Mashelkar is uniquely multifaceted. In 1998, Dr Mashelkar received J.R.D. Tata Corporate Leadership Award, an exclusive honour reserved for Indian Corporates. In 1998, he was also elected Fellow of Royal Society, the topmost honour reserved for world’s pathbreaking scientists. But then he also pioneered `Gandhian Engineering’ -`More from less for more people’ - catering to the needs of the poor.
Dr. Mashelkar valiantly fought and revoked the wrong US patents on turmeric and Basmati rice based on India’s traditional knowledge. But to US multinationals, he licensed patents based on modern knowledge of Indian laboratories, pioneering the trendof reverse transfer of technology.
He is a Director on boards of India’s leading companies, from Tatas to Reliance. 38 global universities have bestowed honorary doctorates upon him. The Government’s trust in him shows through the twelve high-powered Mashelkar Committees, many of them on contentious issues.
As its leader, Mashelkar transformed CSIR, the world’s largest chain of laboratoriesheralded as one of the top ten achievements of Indian Science & Technology in the 20th century. He has received Padmavibhushan at the hands of President of India and Star of Asia at the hands of George Bush (Sr), former US President.

Shri Dhanendra Kumar was the first Chairman CCI. He was instrumental in setting up its enforcement machinery, regulations, systems and procedures, and steering the Commission in its initial years of existence ( 2009-11), specially its M&A regime.
On completion of his term in CCI, he headed the Experts’ Committee to frame the Draft National Competition Policy, and suggesting amendments to the Competition Act, 2002, He also Chaired the Committee of experts of the Ministry of Housing to suggest regulatory reforms in the real estate and housing sector.
Shri Kumar is currently advising, among others, the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (of Ministry of Corporate Affairs) as Hony Principal Advisor, and Distinguished Fellow for the School of Competition Law and Policy- the National Centre of Excellence in Competition and Regulatory Affairs. He is frequently invited to deliver lectures at NLU Delhi, and elsewhere.
Before joining CCI, Mr Kumar was India’s Executive Director at the World Bank ( 2005-09) where he also represented SriLanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan. He was also Secretary in Ministries of Defence Production, Transport, etc. He also served in Haryana, where he is known for development of Udyog Vihar, Manesar, and industrial development.

Shri Vinod Kumar Dhall is leading expert and heads law firm, Dhall Law Chambers, specializing in competition law. He entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1966 and held many important positions including Secretary, Government of India. Subsequently, he was the first Member and acting Chairman of the Competition Commission of India for about 5 years till he resigned in July, 2008. During his career, he specialized in the fields of Corporate Affairs, Industry, Commerce and Finance, in which his total experience has been for about 27 years. This includes economic regulatory experience in the areas of capital markets, insurance, and corporate affairs, as well as direct experience of running businesses as CEO of government owned companies. Mr Dhall is on the Boards of Directors of certain financial sector and other companies, vIz, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd, ICICI Prudential Trust Ltd, Asian Hotels (North) Ltd, ICICI Prudential Pension Fund Co. Ltd and Bharti Foundation (Governing Board). as well as on advisory committees of chambers of commerce, philanthropic bodies, and other organisations. He is the Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Schneider Electric Infrastructure Limited. He is Senior Consultant on competition law and policy to the Royal Government of Bhutan. He advises / lectures on corporate governance issues and competition law and policy and is resource person to reputed academic and other institutions/organizations in India and abroad.

Shri Upendra Kumar Sinha served as the Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India from February 2011 to March 1, 2017.is the former chairman of SEBI. Prior to this, he was the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Unit Trust of India Asset Management Company (UTIAMC),. Shri Sinha was selected for the Indian Administrative Service in 1976. He holds a M.Sc. and LLB degree.
He has held several responsible positions with distinction in the State and Central Governments. He also served as a Director of IFCI Ltd and Central Bank of India, Director of SIDBI, Bank of Baroda and the Pension Funds Regulatory & Development Authority. He was also the Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in India since September 28, 2010. He was also a member of several committees set up by the Government of India including the Committees on Liquidity Management, FIIs, Corporate Bond Market and Investor Protection.
Shri Sinha was also responsible for drafting the SEBI (Amendment) Act, 2002, UTI (Repeal) Act, 2002, the Securities Law Amendment Act, 2004 and the PFRDA Bill 2005.
During the tenure of Shri Sinha, SEBI implemented several key reforms which includes stringent disclosure norms, reforms in mutual funds and in the primary market, strict regulation for merchant bankers, introduction of new regulations for foreign portfolio investors, and alternate investment funds (AIFs). He also stressed the need for moving away from compliance to effectiveness for the need for building a strong ecosystem of Corporate Governance.

Dr. Shreeranjan is Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Meghalaya and also served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry for Women and Child Development in Govt. of India with over 32 years of experience in handling multiple positions related to socio-economic development, Public administration and Public Policy and contributed to enriching public policy in national and international social development space.

Experience
Corporate sustainability
Advisor – Corporate Sustainability, Social Development
2017 onwards
Advise organisations on corporate sustainability and CSR matters

Chief – Tata Sustainability Group
2014 – 2017 (August)
Set up and led the Tata Sustainability Group, which is tasked with providing guidance, thought leadership and support on sustainability and corporate responsibility to Tata group companies. Responsibilities included formulating group level policies and approaches on sustainability issues, introducing emerging sustainability thinking and practice into the group, assisting individual companies in their strategies and practices and curating and executing group-level initiatives (volunteering, disaster response and skilling).

Director, Sustainability and Climate Change, PriceWaterhouse Coopers in India
2012 to 2013
Advised several leading Indian companies in the metals, automotive and consumer products sectors on stakeholder engagement, materiality, sustainability strategy and community engagement/CSR activities.

Director, SustainAbility in India
2008 to 2012
As a part of the global consulting and think tank organisation, developed the India practice and delivered several strategy assignments for clients in India, the UK and Brazil.

Social development
Executive Director – India, American India Foundation
2002 to 2008
Set up the India operations including its strategic focus and internal grant-making processes and was responsible for leading thinking on and management of its programmes on education and livelihoods.

Chief Executive, Partners in Change, Zonal Director and Acting Country Director, ActionAid
1995 to 2002
Founded Partners in Change, a pioneering organisation in Corporate Responsibility promoted by ActionAid to advise companies in India on their CSR activities. Simultaneously held several positions with ActionAid including Zonal Director and Acting Country Director and closely involved in NGO due diligence, capacity building and grant management.

Management consulting
Worked with A F Ferguson & Co. (a firm of management consultants, now a part of Deloitte) from 1982 to 1995 on several consulting assignments with Indian companies in the areas of business and marketing strategy and organisation development.

Education
MBA from the India Institute of Management, Calcutta

Mechanical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Other positions held
Current and past board member/advisor of several non-profits including Mobile Crèches, Srijan, ActionAid India, ActionAid Ghana, Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development, Tata Power Community Development Trust and Aatapi Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation UK, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, Sheffield University UK, Tata Power's Sustainability Advisory Committee.

Member of the Guidelines Drafting Committee for the National Voluntary Guidelines for Responsible Business which were notified by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India. Also, part of a two-person committee set up in August 2016 to update these Guidelines.

Brief overview: Banker with nearly a quarter century of experience in financing and advising clients. He with Deutsche Bank and was until recently playing a regional management role with Royal Bank of Scotland basedi Singapore. Across capital raising and advisory transactions with his clients, Saket has worked on deals of more thannbn, He has worked across conventional financing, equity/debt capital markets and corporate finance. He has recently filed USD started his own Asset Management and Advisory business in cooperation with top blue chip institutional investors. Saket read Economics towards an Honours BA at St. Stephens' College in Delhi and completed his MBA from IIM-Calcutta. He has attended short tenor courses with Harvard Business School and London Business School. Saket is an active contributor as an Op-Ed author and involved with community activities.

Dr. S.K. Panda is an IAS (Retd.), M. Phil in Public Administration, PhD in Economics and served more than 35 years of dedicated public service in Indian Administrative Service. He is also Independent Director in Jute Corporation of India Ltd., Member All India Handloom Board, Member NABARD Taskforce for promotion of Handloom and Handicraft.

He is having rich experience in theory and practice of CSR, capacity building of executive and staff on implementing CSR projects, providing consultancy with help of the concerned faculty and student for formulating CSR projects, implementation of CSR projects on turn key basis and evaluation of CSR projects by third party.

Ms. Aparna Ravi, is the Partner of Samvad Partners and her practice focuses on banking and finance, insolvency law, private equity and venture capital investments and general corporate advisory matters. She has considerable experience advising on financing and restructuring transactions in multiple jurisdictions. Prior to joining Samvad, Aparna worked in the corporate and capital markets departments at the New York and London offices of a law firm, and subsequently as in-house counsel at Credit Suisse in London. Her insolvency practice includes representing financial and operational creditors, corporate debtors and resolution applicants in proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code as well as in out-of-court and pre-insolvency restructurings.

Dr. Geeta Gauri is Ph.D, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University 1981 "Strategies of Industrialization. She was Member in Competition Commission of India and also wrote various publications on Competition Law and her expertise may be helpful in the area of Competition Law and Market Regulations.

CA Rajiv Singh is a recognised expert on business valuation, banking, corporate finance and strategy, M&A and restructuring etc. CA Rajiv Singh uniquely blends in-depth academic specialisation in valuation with his long years of practical exposure as consultant and trainer. Over the last twenty two years, he has carried out complex transactional valuation analyses, transfer pricing valuation, fair value measurement for IFRS/IndAS/NFRS/Singapore-FRS, valuation for FEMA and intangible asset valuation. He has been retained and testified as an expert witness in India and abroad including the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and ITAT in leading valuation cases. He has been actively working with leading law firms in India and USA in relation to valuation matters. He consulted on a corporate restructuring plan that was a key facilitator in a complete turnaround of a leading PSU in construction industry which currently has "Navratna" status. He has served more than 200 valuation clients in India, USA, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Mauritius, Nepal and Dubai and is frequently retained in complex valuation disputes. He contributed significantly in developing the first Business Valuation Standards in India issued by ICAI in 2010 and has designed and delivered the first valuation course of ICAI and ICSI. He was a member of the Accounting Standards Board of ICAI for development of IndAS 113 (Fair Value Measurement).

Dr. Suraj Kumar has worked in the development sector since 1993 at progressively senior levels (nearly 17 years with the UN) in design and implementation of programmes on sustainable human development, urban governance and poverty, human development, and convergence to meet MDGs. I am currently working intensively on Sustainable Development Goals – having written the SDG documents for the Government of Chhattisgarh (2016) and India’s Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (2017) and now working on a 3-volume book on SDGs in South Asia, for publication by Routledge UK as also finalising the Tripura SDG Vision 2030.
Since April 2014 I am also Chief Mentor of Neeti Foundation, an independent think-tank that works with the Reserve Bank of India on promoting cooperatives for Sustainable Financial Inclusion, with the Election Commission of India on Political Finance Reform, with CERT-IN on Cyber-security.
Prior, as Head of Governance for South Asia at UN Women, I led the programme management and policy advisory role for a large Programme on Gender Responsive Governance for five countries in South Asia.
He has a strong competencies in research, policy analysis and capacity development for SDGs and have built up an extensive network of champions and interlocutors across the globe (especially US, UK, EU countries, South and South-east Asia) at senior levels in national ministries, universities, research & training institutions, thinktanks and media.

Shri Viraf Mehta is a social anthropologist who has been working on corporate responsibility issues for nearly three decades, notably with pioneering companies and NGOs, including Tata Group and Partners in Change. He has served on the boards and committees numerous Industry, Government and Civil Society organisations, including the Bureau of Indian Standards, Global Compact Network-India, the South Asia Forum for Responsible Business. He was a member of the Guidelines Drafting Committee of the National Voluntary Guidelines for the Economic, Social and Environmental Responsibilities of Business (NVGs) which were released in 2011 by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, and was part of a twoperson committee that was tasked with updating the Guidelines in 2016.
Since 2007, Shri Mehta has focussed his attention and support to the Business & Human Rights agenda, and has served on the committees of select international Human Rights organisations and initiatives. Most recently, in April 2016, he was a Rapporteur at the 1st Asia Regional Conference on Business and Human Rights at Doha.
Shri Mehta has been working as an independent expert consultant since 2010, and lectures writes and trains on Business and Human Rights at Business Schools and Universities in India.

Parvathi has combined the roles of a strategy consultant, a leadership facilitator and a practicing business entrepreneur over her rich, 20-year career in Business and Innovation. She is the Managing Director at Innovation Alchemy Consulting Pvt Ltd, a lead Indian Innovation Facilitation firm; and she is also the Co-Founder CEO of Fresh Harvest Pvt Ltd., an agri business enterprise for horticulture production.
She leverages a rich consulting and advisory experience in developing breakthrough business models, accelerating entrepreneurship and supporting incubation of new ideas in the context of India, Africa and South Asia. She has actively engaged with Leaders across SMEs, Corporates, Foundations and Social Enterprises, driven by her passion for Leadership Facilitation and a strong belief in the power of an innovation mindset to be the critical change ingredient for business and society. She has led the design and development of large-scale incubation & innovation acceleration programmes for organizations such as the World Bank group, Marico Innovation Foundation, ITC eChoupal, Samsung, DFID-UK Aid Agency and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Parvathi enjoys teaching & facilitation and is an empaneled, specialist facilitator for Harvard Business Publishing in India. For HBP, over the last five years, she has led workshops for a wide range of senior management and CXO level leadership, on Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, designed on the Harvard case-based method. Parvathi has facilitated HBP sessions across India, Middle East and South Asia, for the leadership of companies such as ABBOTT and the Adani Group in India, and the Asian Development Bank and Globe Telecom, in South Asia. She has also taught credit Programmes in entrepreneurship and innovation at the SPJain Institute and IIM Indore, as a part of her work with the Marico Innovation Foundation.
Prior to Innovation Alchemy, Parvathi has spent over 10 years in a corporate environment, in a range of leadership roles in eLearning Knowledge Solutions, Business & Consulting. She has led multi-stakeholder teams across the US, UK and India, helping clients define their requirements as a solutions architect, and led teams to deliver complex, multi-country eLearning knowledge solutions for clients like Walmart, Altria Group, Logica CMG and Allstate Insurance.
In 2014 Parvathi set up a second venture, Fresh Harvest Pvt Ltd., an agriculture enterprise to build a model of profitable, mid-sized horticulture farming. The agri-business start-up, in its 3rd year of operations has produced and delivered over 350,000 stems of exotic flowers and 50 tons of vegetables into urban markets of south India. The business is targeting to become operationally profitable by December 2018, working to demonstrate its hypothesis of a financially viable agri business venture.
She is recognized for her strategic facilitation skills, capacity to cull out fundamental insights, deep knowledge of the small & medium business space, and an expertise in innovation process facilitation. Her ability to build strategic collaborations with people and organizations in the innovation ecosystem has enabled her to lead large, strategic, multi stakeholder programmes for her clients in the private and public sector.
She has a Masters in Communication from the Hyderabad Central University, 1996; and is an alumnus of the Management Programme for Women Entrepreneurs at the IIM Bangalore, 2009. Parvathi is also a certified Independent Director and a lifetime member of the Institute of Directors, India.

Shri Amarjit Chopra, M.Com., CA, serves as a Partner of Surendar K. Jain & Co., Chartered Accountants, New Delhi. Shri Chopra has a vast experience of 30 years in the field of Accounting, Auditing, Taxation, Corporate Laws and Finance. He possesses good knowledge and has rich experience in the field of Accountancy and Finance. He is Independent Directors and Directors on the Board of various reputed companies. He has been Vice President at Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India since February 5, 2009 and also serves as Central Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

He was also associated with teaching in Deshbandhu (Evening) college of Delhi University. He has delivered more than 2750 lectures on various professional topics of Corporate Governance, Accounting, Standards including IFRS, Standards on Auditing, Company Law, Banking etc. in various programmes organized by ICAI and its Regional Councils, branches and foreign Chapters, C&AG office, other professional Institute, Chambers and son on Recently he has been taken as a human resource on the roaster of IMF.

He has also been associated with MCA on various initiatives in the past, including as member IEPF, member committee on review of cost accounting standards. business sub-group on XBRL, revision of MAOCARO and CARO 2013 etc. He has been engaged as member in the recent constituted Committee by MCA to review offences under Companies Act 2013.

Ms. Carrie Rich is the co-founder and CEO of The Global Good Fund, a non-profit organisation that supports high potential social entrepreneurs in more than 30 countries globally. Ms. Rich has co-authored two books on leadership, the first of which become a Top Business Book in Germany. She previously served as adjunct faculty at Georgetown University and currently teaches at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Ms. Rich is the 2016 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, recipient of the POLITICO Women who Rule Award, 2018 Enterprising Women Awardee, Washington Business Journal 40 under 40, Entrepreneur.com Top 30 start-ups to watch, Stevie Award for Women in Business , Asian Social Innovation CEO of the Year, Social Enterprise Alliance 50 Under 40, and Empact 100 Awardee. Ms. Rich has been published in media outlets such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, The Founder Institute, and Philanthropy News Digest. She sits on both non-profit and for- profit boards, co-owns a for- profit women’s retail boutique, and volunteers globally teaching fundraising for social impact to aspiring social entrepreneurs.

Carrie Rich has been travelling throughout the India, and the first leg of her trip was spent with GGF Alum Summaiya Afreen. Her enterprise Lakshya Jeevan Jagriti is a Delhi- based venture which provide quality education and skill training for women, ultimately empowering them to take on leadership roles within the community. There was no shortage of laughter and inspiration as Carrie got to know the youth students, volunteers and future female social entrepreneurs of this amazing organisation.
CEO Carrie Rich as she’s recognised among the 2018 Enterprising women of the Year by Enterprising Women Magazine.

Prof. Sunder Ram Korivi is the Dean of School for Securities Education (SSE) and School for Securities Information and Research (SSIR). He is an MA (Economics and Political Science) and PhD from the University of Mumbal. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of India and the Insurance Institute of India.

Prof. Korivi was a full-time faculty Member at SP Jain Institute of Management, and later, a Professor and Dean at NMIMS University. He has conducted policy-oriented research for the Central and State Governments. An adjunct faculty at IIM Kozhikode, he has also lectured at IIT Bombay, NIBM, NIA, NlTIE, BSE and other institutes. He has guided two PhDs, and also refereed PhD studies of several universities all over India. He has prior work experience with Business India as a Corporate Researcher, Tata Industrial Finance Corporation as a Merchant Banker.

Shri Harsh Gupta is Chief Investment Officer of Ashika Group. He is an MBA from INSEAD, BA (Economics) from Dartmouth College, IIT (Delhi), CFA, FRM Holder.

He worked with Bain & Co. As Strategy Consultant and MIT J-PAL as Research Associate.

He has co-authored a book on derivatives published by Cambridge University Press. He has acquired rich experience in public market investors and having expertise in commercial due diligence, macroeconomics, political risk analysis.

Shri Manish Chauhan is the founder of jagoinvestor.com and is noted blogger in the area of personal finance. He has been writing on various personal finance topics from the last one decade and written more than 800 articles. He has interacted with more than 1 lac retail investors across 500+ cities in India and abroad.

He has conducted various workshops for investors, written 5 books on personal finance, designed and created financial literacy show called Plant-F on CNBC TV-18, designed ebooks, financial literacy videos and audio programms and conducted surveys/studies on investors online.

Shri Rajeev Mantri is Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, USA specializing in private equity and value investing. and having exposure in Advance Investment Research, Credit Markets & Leveraged Buyouts, Financial Statement Analysis, Corporate Finance and Restructuring & LBOs.

He is Executive Director of Navam Capital, an India-based venture capital firm. Prior to founding Navam. He has worked as a venture capitalist at New York-based Lux Capital, focusing on investments in energy, nanomaterials. He has contributed articles on technology, public policy, investing and entrepreneurship in India to the Wall Street Journal, Mint, Financial Times, The New York Times, MIT Technology review. The Indian Express, Roubini Global Economics and others. Rajeev is a member of the advisory board of RISE Foundation at IISER Kolkata.

He authored or co-authored over 100 articles and op-eds on topic including investment, economic policy, and Indian political economy for publication including Mint. The wall street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, BioSpectrum, The Times of India and others.

He is practicing CA having more than 35 years of experience and has also participated in as Special Invitee to National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards (NACAS) under MCA, reviewer and faculty with Financial Reports Review Board of ICAI and also participated in various Committees of ICAI in different years.

He was also the Ex-Member of MCA committee on CARO 2003, co-authored Corporate Anti-Bribery Code issued by ICSI. He is Independent Directors and Directors on the Board of various reputed companies

He has been invited as Faculty with IICA, 1CLS Academy, SFIO, 10, ONGC, SBI and other reputed institutions.

Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay is an eminent economist and is currently serving as Secretary General of India Development Foundation (IDF). He is the Founder and Research Director of IDF. He is also the Professor of Emerging Market Finance, University of Groningen, Netherlands and Visiting Professor, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University, Sweden.

He graduated in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata, and got his PhD in Economics from Cornell University, USA in 1983. He joined the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) as a lecturer in 1983 and was promoted to full professor in 1991. In 2006, Shubhashis was awarded a doctorate (honoris causa) by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2008, the year of the global financial crisis, Shubhashis was appointed advisor to the Finance Minister, Government of India. He has been a consultant to various ministries including Finance, Planning, Industry and Rural Development. He has led important government research projects like the leading indicator of economic activity, the impact of steel de-control on SAIL, the optimum use of Hajira-Bijapur-Jagdishpur gas pipeline and on exit policy. As an advisor of PSFT Task Force on the plantation sector, he has developed a new financial instrument for reducing the impact of price volatility on plantation growers. He is currently on the board of IDE-I (International Development Enterprises – India)

He has been a member of the South Asia Chief Economist’s Advisory Council of the World Bank, an advisor to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and on the board of the Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business (ISB). He is the founder-President of the Society for the Promotion of Game Theory and its Application. He has served on the board of the Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India (IRBI), as a member on the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Advisory Group on Bankruptcy Law and on the Bankruptcy Task Force of IPD (Initiative for Policy Dialogue), Columbia University.

He has published widely in international journals, and has authored a number of books. His published books include: Law and Economics: Volume I: Theory, Volume II: Practice (co-authored), 2013; Waiting to Connect (co-authored), 2008; Economic Reforms for the Poor (co-edited), 2000; Counting the Poor: Where Are the Poor in India (co-authored), 1998; The Institutions Governing Financial Markets (edited), 1996; Enabling Financial Institutions (co-authored), 1997; Economic Theory and Development Policy (co-edited), 1992; and Economic Development and Policy (co-edited), 1991. He is the chief editor of IDF’s Journal of Infrastructure Development and the Review of Market Integration, as also, member on the editorial boards of Journal of Financial Stability and Review of Development Economics.

Sutapa Banerjee has spent close to 24 years in the financial services industry across 2 large multinational banks (ANZ Grindlays and ABN AMRO), and a boutique Indian Investment bank (Ambit) where she built and headed several businesses. A well recognized thought leader in the Wealth Management space having headed and successfully built from scratch the Private Wealth businesses in both ABN AMRO Bank and Ambit Capital, Sutapa was voted one of the ‘Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management’ by the Institutional Investor Group in 2007 - the only Indian and one of only two winners from Asia. As CEO she led Ambit Private Wealth to ‘Best Private Bank in India in the 2013 AsiaMoney polls. In 2012 she was shortlisted in the ’50 most Powerful Women’ by Fortune India.

Currently she serves as an Independent Director on the boards of several companies in the JSW Group, Women’s World Banking Group, Axis Capital, Mannapuram Finance Ltd, Oxfam, the North East Small Finance Bank and Niyogin Fintech Ltd. She is a Visiting Faculty with IIM Ahmedabad co-creating and co-teaching an elective on cognitive biases on decision making and its impact on corporate practices with a focus on gender- a first for any business school anywhere. Sutapa is also an adjunct faculty with IICA – the Government think tank under the MCA. In addition she works as a Decision Coach for senior leadership talent and consults in the Wealth and Investments area for the Gerson Lehrman Group.

Sutapa is an Advanced Leadership Fellow (2015) at Harvard University. Her area of study in which she teaches, consults, trains, writes and speaks both internationally and in India is on Cognitive Errors and Biases in Decision-making and the use of data analytics and design interventions to mitigate their impact. Sutapa is a gold medalist in Economics from the XLRI school of Management in India, and an Economics honours graduate from Presidency College Kolkata. A member of the CII National Committee on Integrity and Transparency in Governance, CII National Committee on Womens Empowerment and the Indian Women Network, she also serves on the Advisory Panel of the ‘India Responsible Business Forum’.

Managing Partner, Madaan Law Offices, Advocates & Solicitors

Registered Insolvency Professional

Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for M&A

G P Madaan, an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (DU), Law graduate from Campus Law Centre (DU), fellow member of ICSI, besides holding diplomas in Labour Laws and Corporate Laws & Management has vast practical experience of over 33 years in the Corporate Legal, Secretarial, Capital Markets, Financial, and Managerial Disciplines. Mr Madaan is also a registered insolvency professional. His law firm specialises into Corporate Legal Advisory, Arbitration and Litigation (High Courts and NCLT).

He has been Chairman of Institute of Company Secretaries of India - Northern Region in 2005. He is Vice-President of Insolvency Practitioners Bar Association Since 2012 he has been Co-Chairman of National Council for Mergers & Acquisitions of ASSOCHAM. He has also been member of the following:

(a) Task Force of Society of Insolvency Practitioners of India (SIPI)
(b) Member-Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) of ICSI since 2012
(c) National Council for Corporate Laws, Corporate Governance and CSR of ASSOCHAM since 2011
(e) National Council for Capital Markets of ASSOCHAM since 2012
(f) National Council for Corporate Frauds of ASSOCHAM since 2014
(g) Corporate Affairs Committee of PHD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (PHDCCI)
(h) Capital Market Committee of PHDCCI
(i) Banking Reforms Committee of PHDCCI
(j) Area Advisory Board of Amity University
(k) Vice President (Company Law) & Executive Committee Member of Bhartiya Vitta Salahakar Samiti

He has written various articles on different subjects for professional magazines and web portals. He has addressed many Conferences and Seminars organized by various Professional Bodies, Industry Associations, Chambers, Ministries, Universities, Management Institutions and Regulators. He has also conducted and addressed many workshops, seminars and webinars on orientation of Boards and Senior Management on diversified subjects prominent being Companies Act, Corporate Governance, Board Practices & Procedures, CSR, Independent Directors, LODR, Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace, NCLT and Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016.

He has acted as Legal Counsel and Advisor to many Corporate Debtors, Financial Creditors and Operational Creditors under IBC. He has also represented many clients in various meetings of Committee of Creditors.

Domains of expertise include the following practice areas and sectors (litigation and advisory):
• Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws
• Company Law
• Other Corporate Laws
• Securities and Capital Market Laws
• Dispute Resolution — Litigation, Commercial Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation
• Legal Drafting & Vetting
• Real Estate — Investments, Exits, Due-Diligence and Advisory
• Consumer Affairs

Shri Vijay Kapur, who was Former Director, Board of Studies and joined the educational wing of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in 1983 as a faculty in the core area of Auditing. Prior to joining the ICAI, he worked as a Lecturer with Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, India. Post his superannuation in Dean of CA Learning (A Group Company of Grant Thornton, India) from August 2015 to September 2016. He is currently working as Research Advisor at Deloitte, where he is advising the Brand and Communication team to author Deloitte’s History of India.

Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi is former Assistant Professor of law in National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bangalore. She has also delivered lectures in the many Foreign universities. She is LLM (Gold Medalist) and has got over 19 years of experience in the Legal Profession.

At present, she is Advocate on Record in the Supreme Court of India.

Mr. Ashish Makhija has got 29 years of experience in Corporate and Business Laws, Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Winding up, contract drafting, Corporate Governance , Mergers and acquisitions, compliance, arbitration, Litigation, anti-money laundering, financial crimes, legal research, corporate Training etc. He has also served as the standing counsel for the Official Liquidator attached to court of Delhi and has also handled many cases of Corporate insolvency and liquidation.

Mr. Makhija has also served as an Adjunct Professor at International Level. Presently, he is serving as a Faculty and Resource person at various reputed Institutions.

Sh. ParvatheesamKanchinadham has got 18 years of rich experience in the areas of Corporate Governance, Risk, Ethics & Compliance.
He currently the Corporate Secretary and Compliance Officer of Tata Steel. His most significant responsibilities include advising the Board on Compliance and ensuring that the Members of the Board are ably equipped withresources to discharge their fiduciary duties and corporate governance practices. Prior to joining the Tata Group, he served as the Corporate Secretary and Chief Risk & Compliance Officer of Infosys.
He has also served as a Member of various Committees which act as a think tank for setting standards on Governance & Disclosures.