Annual General Meeting

Ketan Dalal is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, having qualified in 1981. He was the Joint Head Tax, All India and the Managing Partner (West) and was a member of the India Leadership Team with PwC India. He exited PwC with effect from 1stApril 2017 to pursue his independent professional interests and runs a boutique Structuring and Tax firm, Katalyst Advisors LLP. He is a Director in HDFC Life Insurance, Zensar Technologies Ltd and Jio Payments Bank Ltd He was a member of the “Working group on Non resident taxation” formed by India’s Ministry of Finance in 2003. He has also served on various committees of professional and business organisations. He is a member of the Managing Committee and the Chairman of the Direct Tax Committee of IMC. International Tax Review, a leading global magazine on international tax has listed him among India’s leading tax advisors He has authored a book ‘‘Indian Taxation Decoded- An MNC Perspective” in 2018 published by Wolters Kluwer

Salil Tripathi is a writer and human rights expert born in Mumbai and lives in London. Educated at New Era School and Sydenham College in Mumbai, Salil obtained his MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College in the United States. He has been a senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. As senior adviser - global issues at the Institute for Human Rights and Business, Salil has been involved with developing global standards for corporate accountability with regard to human rights. He has been researcher at Amnesty International and member of the External Sustainability Advisory Panel at Exxon, and earlier performed a similar role at GE. Salil also chairs PEN International's Writers-in-Prison Committee. He is contributing editor at Mint and The Caravan, and has been foreign correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review in Singapore and Hong Kong. An award-winning journalist, he has written three works of non-fiction. His next book is about the Gujaratis.

Pranav Sayta is a Partner in EY, India and is based in Mumbai. He is the national leader of the Transaction Tax practice. In the past, he has held diverse roles in EY India as National Leader for TMT sector (Technology, Media & Telecommunication), National head of the tax litigation and controversy practice and national head of Tax Learning & Development. He has also been a key part of the Tax Knowledge and Solutions team. Pranav is a Gold-Medalist charted Accountant attaining first rank at All-India level. He was also awarded the prize for the best paper on Direct Tax Laws by The Institute of Charted Accountants of India. he has more than 30 years of experience in the practice of Direct Tax Laws. He joined EY in 2001. Pranav is a Member of Permanent Scientific Committee of International Fiscal Association, Netherlands Pranav is also a Member of the Executive Committee of International Fiscal Association India (IFA India) and Chairman of the Managing Committee of the Western region Chapter, IFA India

Mrs. Jaya Row is one of the best speakers on Vedanta - the science of self-management. She brings alive the wisdom of the Vedas in a modern context. Backed by her experience in corporate life and 40 years of research on Vedanta, she motivates people to become outstanding achievers and live happy lives. Clarity, wit and zeal are the hallmarks of her presentations. Jaya Row has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum Davos, World Bank, Young Presidents' Organization, Apple, Google & Intel in California, KPMG, MasterCard & Deutsche Bank in New York, Shell in London, Princeton University, and Washington University to name a few.

Rajni Bakshi is a Mumbai-based author. Her books include: Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom: for a market culture beyond greed and fear (Penguin, India, 2009 and Greenleaf, UK, 2012), which won two Vodafone-Crossword Awards; Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi (Penguin, India, 1998) which inspired the Hindi film Swades; Long Haul: the Bombay Textile Workers Strike 1982-83 (BUILD, India, 1986). Rajni has also written several monographs including: Trusteeship: Business and the economics of well-being (2016); Civilizational Gandhi (2012); An Economics for Well-Being (2007); Let’s Make it Happen: a backgrounder on New Economics (2003); A Warning and an Opportunity: the Dispute over Swami Vivekananda’s Legacy (1994). She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Rajni was awarded the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2000. From 2013 to 2016 Rajni was the Gandhi Peace Fellow at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, a Mumbai based foreign policy think tank. She serves on the Boards of Child Rights and You (CRY), Citizens for Peace (CfP) and the Centre of Education and Documentation (CED). Rajni has a BA in Journalism and Political Science from George Washington University and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Rajasthan.

Nandita Parekh is a Chartered Accountant and an MBA, with an outstanding academic record. A gold medalist Chartered Accountant, Nandita holds the distinction of being the first woman to top the final CA examination at an all-India level. Nandita specializes in internal audit and risk advisory services. She has authored a book on “Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) – A Handbook for Private Companies and their Auditors”. She is a regular speaker at professional seminars, on topics such as practice management, risk management, internal audit, Corporate Governance and ICFR. As an active member of the Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society, Nandita has made a notable contribution to the field of Internal Audit. Nandita has done pioneering work in pursuing the cause of women chartered accountants, in sensitizing the profession about the need for better gender balance and has supported many women professionals in re-starting their professional careers. An academician at heart, she is actively engaged in mentoring CA students and young professionals. Nandita can be reached at [email protected]

Indrani Bagchi is Diplomatic Editor and a member of the Editorial Board of The Times of India, the world's largest English language newspaper. She has been reporting and analyzing foreign policy and strategic issues for TOI since 2004. Her news and feature stories, opinion pieces, and blog ('Globespotting') cover a wide range of subjects – from India's geopolitical and economic relations with the rest of the world, to global trends viewed from a primarily Indian perspective. Prior to this, Indrani served as Associate Editor at India Today, a premier news magazine. She started her journalism career at The Statesman, before moving to The Economic Times. Indrani was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University. She was awarded the Chang Lin-Tien Fellowship by the Asia Foundation to study US-China relations at Brookings Institution, Washington DC. She is a Fellow of the India Leadership Initiative of Aspen Institute India and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She tweets @IBagchiTOI and @horror06.