Alan J Lo Re is a Senior Associate Director of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). His role includes the investigation of possible violations of federal statutes and PCAOB and SEC rules related to auditing and professional auditing standards for PCAOB registered public accounting firms and associated persons. Previously, he worked as a instructor/ lecturer in pre-trial advocacy, government lawyering, legal research at The George Washington University Law School. He was also invited as a guest lecturer at US Department of Justice, National Advocacy Centre.

He did Doctor of Law (JD), Law from Albany Law School and secured his bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University.

Shri Amarjeet Singh is a Whole Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Prior to this assignment he was Executive Director in SEBI. Shri Amarjeet Singh is handling various departments   including Investment Management Department, Market Intermediaries Regulation and Supervision Department, Office of International Affairs, Investigations Department and Human Resources Department. 

Shri Singh with his nearly three decades of service in SEBI has wide experience in regulation and supervision of securities markets. He has headed Market Regulation Department, Corporation Finance Department, Office of Chairman, Office of International Affairs and has held various portfolios at SEBI. Shri Singh has led SEBI’s engagements on sustainability reporting. He  was  instrumental  in bringing about various primary market reforms including reduction of lock-in period of  minimum  promoter  holding  in& ...Read More

Mr Ananth Narayan is currently a Whole Time Member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), looking after Market Regulation Department (MRD), Alternative Investment Fund and Foreign Portfolio Investors Department (AFD), Enforcement, Enquiries & Adjudication Department (EAD), Office of Investor Assistance & Education (OIAE), and Department of Economic & Policy Analysis (DEPA).

Prior to this current role, Ananth has had extensive experience of academia, governance, and international banking.

Between 2018 and 2022, Ananth was an Associate Professor at S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai. He also served on several boards, including as Independent Director on SBI Capital Markets, Additional Director (appointed by RBI) on Yes Bank Ltd., Public Interest Director (appointed by SEBI) on NSE Clearing Limited.

Between 2009 and 2017, Ananth was with Standard Chartered Bank, last as Managing Director & Regional ...Read More

Archana Bhutani is a Partner and India Regulatory leader, Deloitte, Haskins & Sells India and in charge of the Department of Professional Practice (DPP), which is the final authority within the firm on all technical matters (Indian GAAP, IFRS) relating to the audit practice and establishes the firm policies on issues relating to corporate law, accounting, auditing and other related matters. She has received KPMG Achievers Award in 2006 for outstanding performance and remarkable contribution.

She has also served in BSR & Company for more than 23 years. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1998.

Arghya is the Founder and Research Director at Vidhi. His areas of specialisation are constitutional law and regulation of the digital economy. He has served on a number of government committees including the B.N. Srikrishna-led committee of experts on a data protection framework for India. Arghya has a number of academic publications on the Supreme Court and the Constitution in leading law journals such as Law Quarterly Review and Public Law. He is also a columnist at The Telegraph and The Times of India. He has most recently authored a book “Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary” (Cambridge, 2019) which builds on his doctoral work at Oxford University. Prior to founding Vidhi, he was at Oxford as a Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College.

Ms Barbara Vanich, Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards at PCAOB and has a degree from Point Park University. Ms Vanich is a Certified Public Accountant.

She joined PCAOB in 2009 as Associate Chief Auditor and become Acting Chief Auditor prior to her current role where she is principal advisor to Board and divisions on matters relating to the application of PCAOB auditing and related professional standards applicable to engagements performed by registered firms. She directs the organization’s standard-setting activities including determining the need for, and overseeing the development of, professional standards and staff guidance. She engages with members of external groups or organizations, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators, investors, auditors, academics, audit committee members, and financial executives, on matters relating to auditing and related professional standards and represents PCAOB a ...Read More

Mr. Sundaram is currently the Vice Chairman and MD of TVS Capital Funds Ltd and serves as an independent director on the boards of SBI General Insurance, GSK Pharma India, Crompton Greaves Consumer Limited and Trent Hyper Market (JV with TESCO). Previously, he served as an independent director on the Board of State Bank of India and SBI Capital Markets and has been a member of the board of governors of the Institute of Financial Management and Research, Chennai, since 2005.

D. Sundaram's experience spans corporate finance, business performance, monitoring operations, governance, mergers & acquisitions, talent/people management and strategy. His extensive experience spans over 34 years with Hindustan Unilever Limited.

Mr. Sundaram is a Post Graduate in Management Studies (MMS), Chennai, Fellow of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, and has done Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Programme (AMP).

• Chartered Accountant, Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
• Partner with S.R. Batliboi & Associates LLP for 15+ years
• 25+ years audit experience
  • Statutory audit, IPO and other assurance engagements in Indian GAAP and IFRS
• Professional Practice Director for SRB Network in India
  • Oversee regulatory, audit quality and financial reporting matters, including establishing audit quality policies and procedures, and monitor their compliance
• Client service experience
  • MNCs, listed companies, entrepreneur-led, private equity investees and professionally managed enterprises
• Sector experience
  • Technology (Software products and services and E-com), Media & Entertainment, Logistics, Professional servi ...Read More

Himanshu V. Kishnadwala is a senior partner at CNK Associates & Co, where he oversees the firm's audit and assurance practice, focusing on auditing large corporates (including Fortune 500 companies), implementing Ind AS, conducting investigations, performing due diligence assignments, and conversion of financial statements from I-GAAP to IFRS/US GAAP.

Prior to his role at CNK Associates & Co, he served as a senior lecturer in Accountancy and Computer Systems at Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai, from June 1986 to November 2000. He has also been a co-opted Member and Special Invitee on various committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). 

Additionally, Himanshu has been actively involved with the Bombay Chartered Accountants Society (BCAS), where he served as President in 2006-07 and as Chairman of the Accounting & Auditing Committee of BCAS until 2019-20. 

Shri Inder Deep Singh Dhariwal is Joint Secretary at Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. Shri Dhariwal looks after matters related to Corporate Social Responsibility, National Financial Reporting Authority, National Foundation for Corporate Governance amongst other responsibilities. Shri Dhariwal also currently serves as Part-time Member, NFRA.

He belongs to the 1992 batch of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS). He has extensive experience in public auditing and accounting and has served as Principal Accountant General (Audit), Himachal Pradesh, Director General of Audit, Eastern Railway, Kolkata and Accountant General (Accounts and Entitlement), Bihar. Additionally, he has served across the country in various roles in the CAG’s organisation in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and in CAG’s Headquarters in New Delhi.

Josephine Jackson is the Director of International Audit and Assurance Policy at the UK Financial Reporting Council and leads the FRC’s Sustainability Group. In her role, she works on audit quality initiatives, which includes the development of auditing and assurance standards internationally and in the UK.
Josephine is a board member and Vice-Chair on the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB). Josephine is serving her second term of three years.  Josephine is responsible for the IAASB’s sustainability assurance project as Chair of the task force. Josephine has also served as task force chair on a number of the IAASB’s critical public interest projects, including the revision of the auditing standard on Going Concern. 
Prior to joining the FRC, Ms. Jackson was Director of Audit at Grant Thornton. Until 2008, she was in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Koushik Chatterjee, Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer, Tata Steel, has been appointed as Trustee of the IFRS Foundation. He has also been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the UN Global Compact CFO Coalition for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where he will be the sector lead for Industrial Goods and represent the Asia-Pacific geography.

He is also a member of the Task Forces on Climate related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and Nature Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Mr. Chatterjee has also been on the Global Preparers Forum, an advisory body of the International Accounting Standards Board, London and has been a member of several B20 Task Forces under the Chairmanship of Turkey, Germany and China on Energy, Climate & Resource efficiency and Responsible business. He has also been a member of several advisory committees of the Securities Exchange Board of India on primary capital markets and Takeover regulatio ...Read More

Dr. K P Krishnan served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for 37 years. In his IAS career he has served in various positions in the Government of Karnataka, Government of India and at the World Bank. In the Government of India, he has served in key roles in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Department of Economic Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. In these positions he served on the boards of large PSU banks as well as boards of statutory regulatory authorities.
In parallel with his government career, Dr. Krishnan has been a strong researcher and academic. He held the prestigious Bok Visiting Professorship of Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2012-13. He also served as the IEPF Chair Professor of Economics at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NAER) New Delhi and as Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) New Delhi.
At present, he ...Read More

Megan Zietsman is the Global Audit & Assurance Quality, Risk and Regulatory Leader for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL). She has worked with the PCAOB in the capacity of PCAOB’s Chief Auditor & Director of Professional Standards and later on as a Board Member of the PCAOB. Before joining the PCAOB, Megan’s extensive Deloitte career spanned over 30 years. Megan served as a partner in the Deloitte US Professional Practice Network, where she was a member of the leadership team, a leader in the audit consultation network and the partner-in-charge of audit standard setting. She led the development of firm methodologies and the implementation of new and revised professional standards and rules and consulted with engagement teams on complex auditing matters. She was also Deloitte’s representative on the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and served as Deputy Chair.

She started her career as an auditor in Deloi ...Read More

Mohan R Lavi qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989. He has over 27 years of experience in industry across a variety of industries having worked in senior positions in finance in manufacturing and software companies. He has over 8 years of experience in practice. At present, he is a Partner with M/s K P Rao & Co, Chartered Accountants, Bangalore and heads the financial reporting (Ind AS, AS & ESG) practices of the firm. Mr Mohan is the author of books on IFRS, Ind AS, Key Audit Matters and the Sarbanes Oxley Act.  His articles appear frequently in the Hindu Business Line, Deccan Herald and the Bombay Chartered Accountants Journal. He is also a regular speaker at various forums on financial reporting.

M P Vijay Kumar serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Sify Technologies since 2007. He is also an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee on the Boards of LIC and an Independent Director on Boards of Geojit Financial Services Limited and Heritage Foods Limited. He also serves as a Member on the IFRS Interpretation committee of IASB and IFRS Advisory Council of the IFRS Foundation, London.
He served as Council Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (2016-2022 ), was Chairman of Accounting Standards Board and Ex Officio Member of National Financial Reporting Authority for the period 2019-2022.

Nilesh Shah is a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister EAC-PM, Government of India. He is member of COBOSAC committee of SEBI, Board Member of AMFI (Association of Mutual funds of India). He has over 3 decades of experience in capital markets and has managed funds across equity, fixed income and real estate for local and global investors. In his previous assignments, Nilesh has held leadership roles with Axis Capital, ICICI Prudential AMC, Franklin Templeton AMC and ICICI Securities. 

He is a gold medallist Chartered Accountant and a merit ranking Cost Accountant.

Mag. Peter Hofbauer chairs the board of Austrian Audit oversight Body (APAB). In his various roles in his career Mag. Peter Hofbauer has been CFO, Senior Advisor to UniCredit Bank, Austria, Head of Accounting and Investments, Risk Controller, amongst others. He has more than 35 years of working experience, thereof more than 10 years as auditor at a big-4 audit firm and just under 20 years in banking, covering different roles as CFO.

Mag. Peter Hofbauer is the current Chair of the Investor and Other Stakeholders Working Group (IOSWG), of the IFIAR (International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators, comprising independent audit regulators from 55 countries). The objective of the Investor and Other Stakeholders Working Group is to enhance investor protection and improve audit quality based on suggestions both by investors (the ultimate beneficiaries of the audit) and other stakeholders with an interest in audit-related matters.

PR Ramesh is Chairman Audit Committee, Nestle India and Independent Director on several companies. Mr P R Ramesh was the Chairman of Deloitte India and has over 40 years of experience in the profession. In January 2024, Mr P R Ramesh was awarded the best Independent Director Award by the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance.

He has been associated with various Regulatory bodies, Industry bodies and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. In the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), he was a member of the National Council, the Committee on Financial Reporting (also was the Chairman of the Committee), and the CFO Forum. 

His expertise extends globally as an empanelled expert on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with the International Monetary Fund. Presently, he holds the position of Chairman at the Insolvency Research Foundation. 

He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Ch ...Read More

Prof. R. Narayanaswamy was with IIMB since 1986. He is a graduate in commerce of St. Joseph’s College, University of Madras, and has a PhD in Accounting from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, and holds the ICAI’s Diploma in Management Accountancy. His research interests include corporate disclosure policy, earnings management, corporate governance, and auditing.
He has published in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Accounting Horizons, The British Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Research in Accounting Regulation, and Accountancy. He has presented his research in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. He was a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School, UK, and a Visiting Professor at O ...Read More

Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal has assumed the office of President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the year 2024-25. He served earlier as the Vice-President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the term 2023-24. He is a practicing Chartered Accountant since last 24 years. He is also a Company Secretary & DISA from ICAI. He was elected to the 23rd, 24th & 25th Central Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India 3 times in a row. 

He has also chaired Tax Audit Quality Review Board (TAQRB) of ICAI wherein he led the steps towards improvising the quality of Tax Audit conducted by members and during the year 2022-23. His other recent nominations include his nomination as ICAI’s representative on Regional Direct Taxes Advisory Committees formed under Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) at New Delhi and Kolkata and as an Ex-Officio Member in the Committee on Corporate Governance Guidelines for Insu ...Read More

Professor Kallapur is a part time member of NFRA. He is an independent director on the Board of IDBI Bank, where he actively contributes to the risk management and audit committees. He previously served on the Board of the Life Insurance Corporation of India.

Professor Sanjay Kallapur joined the Indian School of Business in 2005 and has since been engaged in conducting research on financial and managerial accounting, auditing, corporate governance, and risk management. Notably, he served as an editor of The Accounting Review from 2008 to 2011, becoming the first individual from outside North America to hold this esteemed position.

Professor Kallapur has a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard Business School, and B.Com. and M.M.S. degrees from Mumbai University. He is professionally qualified as a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (FCMA).

Sanjeev Kumar Singhal currently serves as the Chairman of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and as a part-time member of the National Financial Reporting Authority.

He has worked in areas of accounting, reporting, compliances, taxation, and treasury with well-known companies. He has held positions at BL Aggarwal, Sohwasia and Co., Chartered Accountants, SIDBI, Cyber Media, Religare, and Jubilant Life Sciences.

He has also held the role of Associate Professor at FORE School of Management and IP University. He has actively engaged with industry associations and served as a government nominee on the National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards. Additionally, he serves as the Director of the Institute of Social Auditors of India and has been a member of the SEBI committee on Social Stock Exchanges.

He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Ac ...Read More

Sanjiv Kumar Chaudhary is an experienced finance professional. He is a practicing Chartered Accountant with over 41 years of rich experience in India and domestic/ international tax advisory and consulting including transfer pricing & taxation of cross border transactions.  

He has worked closely with Senior legal counsel for matters in Supreme Court & High Court. He has handled corporate tax and expatriate engagements in both advisory and compliance matters, including compensation structuring, Foreign Exchange regulations, Employee Stock Option Plans and worked on both inbound expatriates and outbound assignees in respect of various Indian and overseas Companies.

He was earlier Partner in Tax and Regulatory practice of BSR & Co. LLP (Sub licensee of KPMG) for more than two decades and worked with RSM & Co. and PwC in tax practice from 2006 to 2009.

He has served as a Board Member of Inte ...Read More

Mr Sharad Sharma co-founded iSPIRT Foundation, a non-profit technology think tank that has conceptualized India Stack, Health Stack and other digital public goods. He also co-founded Teltier Technologies, a wireless infrastructure startup now part of CISCO. He is a member of National Startup Advisory Council, SEBI's Financial and Regulatory Technology Committee and Chairs the taskforce on DPI in ThinkTank20 (T20) engagement group of G20. An alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering, he previously held R&D leadership positions at Yahoo, VERITAS, Symantec, Lucent and AT&T. Sharad Sharma has recently been appointed as a member of the newly established United Nations' advisory body on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Sudhir Soni is Head of Audit at BSR & Co. LLP.  Prior to this he was a Partner and Assurance Leader with S.R. Batliboi & Affiliates Network.  He has worked as statutory auditor for large Indian and multinational companies with an experience of over thirty-five years.  He has also worked on projects on accounting advisory and financial due diligence.   He has sector expertise in Building Materials, Metals and Mining, Retail and Consumer, Pharmaceuticals, Agrochemicals, Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC). Sudhir was a special invitee to the Accounting Standards Board of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He was a former invitee/member IND AS Implementation Committee, Shield panel for excellence in Financial Reporting of the ICAI.

Sumit Seth is a Partner in the Assurance Practice of Price Waterhouse Chartered Accountants LLP with over 26 years of professional services experience. He has served as the financial statement audit engagement partner on various listed companies spanning multiple sectors, including US listed SEC issuers. 

He is involved in Sustainability Assurance and Reporting and has experience with sustainability reporting frameworks such as GRI, IIRC, SASB, and BRSR issued by the SEBI. He takes an active responsibility in driving various policy and thought leadership initiatives in this area.

He also has extensive Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory experience of working alongside companies on a variety of capital market transactions, IPOs, acquisitions and mergers, group reorganization, including forensic accounting investigations. He advises clients on financial reporting frameworks such as IndAS, IFRS, US GAAP and SEC reporting matter ...Read More

Sunil Sanghai brings over three decades of experience in investment banking, specializing in M&A and capital markets advisory across diverse sectors. With a comprehensive skill set encompassing Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, Corporate Finance, Core Banking, and Project Finance, Sunil is well-equipped to navigate complex financial landscapes.

Prior to establishing NovaaOne, Sunil held influential leadership roles, including Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Head of Global Banking at HSBC, India; Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, India; and Executive Director at JM Morgan Stanley. Notably, he chairs the National Committee on Capital Markets of FICCI and previously served as a member of the SEBI Primary Market Advisory Committee (PMAC).

He is a rank holder Chartered Accountant.

Takashi Nagaoka, Secretary General of Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board (CPAAOB) and Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs at Japan’s Financial Services Agency (JFSA), was elected IFIAR Chair in 2023, after representing the JFSA at the IFIAR Board. Takashi has broad experience in financial regulation over his career at the JFSA. In addition to his work with IFIAR, Takashi also currently chairs the IOSCO Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Monitoring Group and IOSCO Administrative Arrangement Assessment Group.

At the JFSA, prior to assuming his current position, Takashi led divisions in charge of managing departments responsible for policy making and enforcement of market laws. His career at the JFSA also includes leading supervision of securities businesses, international banking regulation, and enforcement of corporate disclosure and audit laws. Takashi started his career at the Ministry of Finance in 1991, an ...Read More

Mr. Vikas Kumar is a qualified Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) with more than 29 years of post-qualification experience. He is a partner and CEO at T R Chadha & Co LLP since 1996 and has extensive experience in Statutory Audits, Forensic Audits, Business Advisory services, etc. He is specialized in the financial services sector with extensive experience in audits of large Banks, Financial Institutions, Insurance Companies, NBFCs, etc. He is a regular speaker / panelist at many conferences and seminars of ICAI, SEBI, CAG, etc on various topics including Accounting Standards, Bank Audits, Forensic Audits, etc.  He is also associated with ICAI as a member / reviewer of different committees and boards.

Subramanian Vivek is leader of Assurance practice of Price Waterhouse, India, having more than twenty years of audit experience of leading Multinational Companies with large and established India operations. He has been actively driving the objective of innovation in audit approach through use of technology. He has served several clients (including listed) across a wide variety of sectors including automotive, infrastructure, manufacturing, IT/ITES, service, etc.

He has strong working knowledge of international accounting and reporting requirements and has worked on engagements requiring SOX reporting and reporting under US GAAP, IFRS and US GAAS/PCAOB standards. He has worked in cross-cultural environment and has extensive work experience in area of forensic audit/accounting. He contributes effectively to public interest initiatives through participation at various industry chambers and professional study groups on diverse topics like audit quality to ...Read More