Shri Prem Kumar Malhotra, has more than four decades of experience in the field of law and has held many important assignments in the Government of India. He was Secretary, Legal Affairs as well as Legislative Department in the Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India; Member, Law Commission of India; Presiding Officer (Offg.) and Member, Securities Appellate Tribunal; Chairman, Adjudicating Authority under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and Judicial Member, Income-tax Appellate Tribunal.

He was involved in processing and finalizing many important legislations, including The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, The Companies Act, 2013, The Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988, The Arbitration & Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015, The Commercial Courts Act, 2015, The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, The Information Technology Act, 2000, The Securities Laws (Amendment) Act and many other social & economic legislations. He has handled legal issues on Constitutional Law, Administrative law, Commercial laws, Cyber laws, Alternate Dispute Resolution, including Arbitration and issues relating to telecom sector. He has also worked as Arbitrator in a large number of cases between Govt. Departments and PSUs.

After demitting office as Law Secretary, Mr Malhotra has been practising as an Advocate. He had a brief stint as Secretary-General, International Centre for Alternate Dispute Resolution (ICADR), New Delhi. He is also enrolled as an Arbitrator & Conciliator for some of the Central Public Sector Undertakings, including ONGC, GAIL, NHPC, BHEL, ECIL, SCOPE, ICA, NTPC and Delhi International Arbitration Centre (DIAC). He is handling a number of Arbitration/Conciliation matters, including cases of large PSUs.

He is Public Interest Director on the Board of National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), Mumbai; Independent Director on the Board of Reliance General Insurance Company Limited; Independent Director & Chairman of the ICSI- Institute of Insolvency Professionals, New Delhi; Partner in the Law Firm Shetty, Malhotra & Associates, Mumbai; Chairman of the Working Group constituted by the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) for implementation of the provisions relating to individual insolvency. He is a Member of the Committee against Smuggling & Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy (CASCADE) constituted by FICCI to advice on anti-smuggling & anti-piracy activities. He is a Special Invitee to the Managing Committee Meetings of PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry (PHDCCI). He is also a Member of the High Power Committee constituted by the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for Settlement of Cases under Consent Procedure. He is also a Member in the Advisory Board of the School of Law, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad and Distinguished Professor in the School of Law, Sharda University, Greater Noida (UP).

Mr Malhotra is a regular participant in various national level seminars and public debates on important legal issues, constituting panel with several legal luminaries and eminent jurists of the country, including the retired judges of Supreme Court and different High Courts. He is also a panellist on national news channels including RSTV, Lok Sabha TV, APN, etc., for discussion on important legal issues having a nationwide impact.

Mr Malhotra is a recipient of:
i.National Law Day Award by the International Council of Jurists in 2015;
ii.National Law Day Award by the Indian National Bar Association in 2016;
iii.Award for Leadership in ICT and Cyber Security in the Government sector by the CMAI/TEMA/TEPC in 2017;
iv.Award for outstanding contribution to practice of law in Government sector by ICCA, India & the Law Society of England & Wales at the function in House of Lords, London in 2018;
v.Award for outstanding contribution in ICT sector by the CMAI/TEMA/TEPC in 2019;
vi.Life Time Achievement award by ICCA, India in 2019

Shri Gopal Krishna Agarwal, is National Spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party for Economic Affairs and lives in Noida . He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI). He is Economic thinker and writes extensively for newspaper, financial journals and delivers lectures in seminars & conferences. He is a Trustee and a Treasurer of India Policy Foundation (IPF) and Dr. Mookherjee Smriti Nyas.

He is Independent Director on the Board of PSU, North Eastern Electric Power Co. (NEEPCO) and Member of Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), a think tank of GoI. He was a member of the Task Force on MSME of the Ministry of Finance and Former Director on the Board of Bank of Baroda.

He has initiated various public welfare projects like Jaladhikar Foundation, Nagrik Manch, Shree Ji Gausadan, Milk Cooperative Movement etc.

CS B. Narasimhan, is a Post Graduate in Economics and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He has over four decades of experience in Corporate Law and Management, with special expertise in the Capital Market. 

Elected for a second term from 2023-2026, CS B Narasimhan will serve as the President of the Institute for the year 2024, after serving as the Vice President in the year 2023.

He was elected to the Central Council of the ICSI for the first time in the year 2007 and was re-elected in the year 2011 for another term of 4 years. Prior to his present term, he was elected to the Central Council for the 2019-2022 term as well, where he served as the Chairman of the Secretarial Standards Committee, Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, and member of the Disciplinary Committee for seven years.

His areas of expertise include Corporate and Securities Management, Public Offering of Securities, and all Corporate Actions associated with any Listed Companies including hands-on experience in operations relating to such Corporate Actions.

He has been a member of several committees constituted by SEBI and has also been the Chairman of the Registrar Association of India (popularly known as RAIN) for two terms spread over 5 years.  He has also been closely associated with the Stock Exchanges (BSE and NSE), Depositories (NSDL and CDSL), and other Regulatory Bodies.

A speaker at Seminars and Conferences, in India and abroad, CS B. Narasimhan has also contributed to various professional articles.

CS Dhananjay Shukla, a Commerce and Law graduate, is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is a Practising Company Secretary based at Gurgaon and has been practising in the areas of Corporate Law, Securities Law and Taxation.

CS Dhananjay Shukla has been serving the profession in different capacities for last many years. He was elected to the Northern India Regional Council of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India for the term 2011-14 and then re-elected again for the term 2015-18. He served in various capacities during his tenure at the NIRC and served as the Chairman for the Northern Region in the year 2017.

He has been a member of the Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) of the ICSI for the year 2019 & 2020 and presently he is an elected member of the Managing Committee of the CSBF of the ICSI.

In his overall experience of more than 20 years as a Corporate Professional, he worked as Company Secretary in large Corporate Groups before switching to the practice side in the year 2009. He has been instrumental in various Start-Up ventures set up in India by Foreign Promoters.

CS Manish Gupta, a fellow member of the ICSI, CS Manish Gupta is a Law Graduate and has a Master’s Degree in Commerce. He has been associated with the profession for the last 22 years, as a Practicing Company Secretary. 

He was elected as the President - The ICSI for the year 2023 after being re-elected to the Central Council of the ICSI for the period 2023-2026. He was previously elected for the term 2019-2022 wherein he served as the Chairman on several Committees during the four years and as the Vice-President of the ICSI for the year 2022.  

He was elected to the NIRC-ICSI for two consecutive terms in 2011-2014 and 2015-2018 and was unanimously elected as the Chairman of NIRC of ICSI for the year 2016.

CS Manish Gupta is a registered Insolvency Professional with the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India and is empaneled as an Arbitrator with both BSE and NSE. He is also empaneled as Mediator/Conciliator under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 with various Regional Directors.  

He specializes in handling complex assignments on Corporate Laws, Securities Laws, and Taxation Laws and is also a regular speaker at training programmes, seminars, and conferences.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Mishra, is having more than 40 years of extensive professional experience across various levels of Central (Federal) and State governments including quasi-government entities in accounting, financing, contract management, liaising and legal domains. 

Dr. Mishra retired in 2023 from the role of Technical Member of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Principal Bench, New Delhi on elevation from Technical Member, NCLT, Bangalore. 

Dr. Mishra is the Government of India Nominee to the Central Council of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is serving as an Independent Director on the Board of ICAI Registered Valuers Organization. Also, he is the Distinguished Fellow Member of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

He has Corporate experience as Director Finance (CFO) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (Indian state-owned Aerospace and Defense company). He is the Member of various International and Inter-governmental Committees for large defense contracts involving in-person negotiations across governmental and private entities in USA, UK, France, Japan, Russia and Malaysia.