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 Dhananjay Shukla, a Commerce and Law graduate, is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He is a Practising Company Secretary based out of Gurugram and has expertise in the areas of Corporate Law, Securities Law and Taxation.

CS Dhananjay Shukla has been serving the ICSI in different capacities for last many years. He served as the Vice President of the ICSI for the year 2024. Prior to that, he was elected to the Northern India Regional Council (NIRC) of the ICSI for the term 2011-14 and then re-elected again for the term 2015-18. He was the Chairman of the Northern Region in the year 2017 and served in various other capacities during his tenure at NIRC. He served as a member of the Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) of the ICSI for the year 2019 & 2020.

In his overall experience of more than 20 years as a Corporate Professional, he has 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.