Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey took charge as Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India in Mumbai on March 01, 2025.

Shri Pandey is an IAS Officer of Odisha Cadre belonging to 1987 batch. Before joining SEBI he served as Union Finance Secretary, Revenue Secretary and Secretary, Department of Investment & Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises and Secretary, DOP&T.

Shri Pandey has held many significant positions in Union Government and State Government of Odisha, in addition to serving a stint in the Regional Office of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).

In the Union Government, his previous organisations include Planning Commission (Now Niti Aayog), Cabinet Secretariat and Ministry of Commerce.

In State Government of Odisha, he served as administrative head in the Departments of Finance, Health, General Administration, Commercial Taxes and Transport.

In his career spanning over more than three decades, Shri Pandey has wide experience in the areas of Economy & Finance, Industrial Development, Tax policy and administration and has been instrumental in bringing about several institutional innovations, new policies and systems in the Departments he has served.

He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from Panjab University, Chandigarh and Master of Business Administration from the University of Birmingham (UK).

Shri Sashi Krishnan brings nearly 40 years of experience in Pension Fund Management, Life Insurance, and Mutual Fund industries, with extensive expertise in equity and debt markets.

In his previous role, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Pension System Trust from January 2021 to January 2024. Prior to this, he was the CEO at Aditya Birla Sun Life Pension Management Limited. He has also held leadership roles at Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Ltd., DBS Bank (Singapore), DBS Cholamandalam Asset Management Ltd., and Unit Trust of India.

He has been an active member of the Index Policy Committee of India Index Services & Products Ltd., the Capital Markets Committee of the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Co-Chair of the Life Insurance Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Shri Krishnan holds a BE (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering and an MSc (Hons.) in Economics from BITS, Pilani. He also has a Diploma in Management with a specialization in Finance from IGNOU and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).

Shri Bhatia is a Whole Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since June 01, 2022. In SEBI, Shri Bhatia handles the Department of Debt and Hybrid Securities (DDHS), Corporation, Finance Investigation Department (CFID), Corporation finance Department (CFD), General Services Department (GSD), Regional Offices/Local offices (ROs/LOs), PQ Cell, RTI Cell, Board Cell and NISM division.

Prior to his joining SEBI, Shri Bhatia held the position of Managing Director, State Bank of India wherein he had spent over three and a half decades.  Before becoming Managing Director in State Bank of India, Shri Bhatia served as MD & CEO, SBI Funds Management Pvt. Limited.  He has wide experience in Treasury Operations, Retail Banking, Credit, Investment Banking and Asset Management.

Shri Bhatia completed his schooling from Air Force School, Subroto Park, Delhi and did his Graduation in Physics and Mathematics from Dayalbagh University, Agra.  He is an MBA from Podar Institute of Management, Jaipur.

Shri Ananth Narayan G took charge as Whole Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India on October 10, 2022. Shri Narayan handles Market Intermediaries Regulation and Supervision Department(MIRSD), Alternative Investment Fund and Foreign Portfolio Investors Department(AFD), Integrated Surveillance Department(ISD), Department of Economic & Policy Analysis(DEPA) and Information Technology Department(ITD).

Shri Narayan has more than two and half decades of experience in banking and financial markets and has held various senior positions. Prior to this assignment, Shri Narayan also held the position of Associate Professor, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

Shri Narayan has also served as a Director on the Boards of various banks and corporates. He has also been a member of various advisory committees constituted by SEBI and RBI.

Shri Narayan holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and was awarded the Director’s Gold Medal for standing 2nd in the batch. He did his Graduation in Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Shashi Kumar is an Executive Director (ED) at SEBI. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) he also has an MBA in Finance from Mumbai University. He joined SEBI in 1996 and presently as ED, he is overseeing the Office of Investor Assistance and Education, the Department of Economic and Policy Analysis, matters related National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) and General Services Department (GSD) – Protocol & Security Division (P&S), Official Language Division (OLD), Board Cell, RTI & PQ Cell.

In the over 28 years of working at SEBI, Shashi has seen the evolution of the securities market regulatory framework in India from close quarters and has expertise spanning matters related to trading, clearing, settlement, risk management, surveillance, and enforcement. He was instrumental in the seamless integration of the commodity derivatives market with securities markets and the subsequent deepening of the market and introduction of new products and players.

In the course of his career in SEBI, as Executive Assistant (EA) to the Chairman SEBI for three plus years, Shashi was in charge of the Office of Chairman (OCH) having an overview of the functioning of SEBI. He also handled, for several years, the responsibilities of the SEBI’s Office of International Affairs (OIA), which coordinates the engagements of SEBI with various international organizations such as IOSCO, FSB etc. as well as with counterparts in regulatory bodies. Shashi has also handled responsibilities of Surveillance Department and Market Regulation Department, which deals with Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs). His experience includes roles in the AFD Department handling Alternative Investment Funds, Venture Capital Funds and Foreign Portfolio Investors and also in enforcement as an Adjudication and Enquiry Officer involving passing of quasi-judicial orders.

Over the last more than two and half decades Shashi has had the opportunity and privilege of representing SEBI in various national and international forums for regulatory framework setting, knowledge sharing and capacity building initiatives.

Shri Ajit Balakrishnan is a 6th batch alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He is a successful entrepreneur, an able business executive, and an admirable administrator. He had started his entrepreneurial venture with Rediffusion, an advertising firm now known as Rediffusion DY&R, which he co-founded when he was only 22. He later also co-founded PSI Data Systems in mid 80’s with two other partners hailing from Stanford.

Rediff.com, founded in 1995, was listed on NASDAQ in 2001. He led Rediff.com India Limited (Nasdaq: REDF) to win the prestigious 2016 CIO Choice Award for the best Enterprise Email Solution for three consecutive years. He also received the laudable award of Elite Strategic Business Communicator given by Association of Business Communicators of India in the year 2011. He was also named as the Chairman Emeritus of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He has served as the Chairman of the Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India and also chaired a Committee appointed by India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development on ‘Research and Faculty Enhancement at the seven IIMs’.

Mr. Balakrishnan also served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta for two successive terms spanning over ten years.

Mr. Uday Chitale was appointed on the Board of ICICI Bank in January, 2018. He is a Chartered Accountant with over 43 years’ standing and is Senior Partner of M. P. Chitale & Co. His professional experience encompasses auditing & assurance and business/management advisory services to diverse mix of corporate clients including banking and financial institutions. Mr. Chitale is also active in the field of arbitration and conciliation and passionately promotes and works for spreading awareness of ADR to resolve commercial disputes. He is accredited mediator on the panel of experts of CEDR (UK). Mr. Chitale has served on the boards of prominent companies and notably, he was a board member during ICICI Bank’s formative years during 1997-2005. He was also a director and VP-Asia Pacific of the global association of accounting firms, DFK International.

Prof. H. Krishnamurthy served the Indian Institute of Science for more than three decades and Retired as a Chief Research Scientist in 2017. His focus areas are Networks and Security in particular and Banking Technologies in General. He serves as Chairman/Member of several technology initiatives of RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA. He is on the Boards of Insurance Information Bureau (IIB) and Institute of Insurance and a Risk Management (IIRM). He served on the Boards of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), IDRBT and Canara Bank in the past.

Mr. Anup Bagchi is the Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited.
Prior to this Mr. Bagchi was on the Board of ICICI bank and has worked across various functions of the bank across retail , MSME, Corporate banking, Treasury in addition to credit policy and data analytics area.
Mr. Bagchi also has extensive experience in Capital markets and was the Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Securities. He has represented ICICI Group in various regulatory committees of key bodies such as RBI and SEBI.
Qualification: Management degree from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and an Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

D P Singh has over 31 years of rich experience in the Banking and Financial Services industry. As DMD & Joint CEO, he is responsible for all business verticals and segments of the organization. A mutual fund industry veteran, he has spent 25 years with SBI Mutual Fund and has held many senior leadership roles and led the company’s consistent growth in several parameters, including AUM, market share and profits, while being instrumental in expanding the fund house reach in both urban and rural areas. Prior to joining the company, he was with SBI where he handled various assignments in Retail Banking, Corporate Credit, and Information Technology Initiatives.

Navneet Munot is the MD & CEO of HDFC Asset Management Company Limited (HDFC AMC). He joined the firm in February 2021. HDFC AMC manages over Rs.7 lakh crore across Equity and Fixed Income Mutual Funds for over 1 crore investors across the country. Navneet is also the Chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).

A veteran of financial markets, Navneet has 3 decades of rich experience in the industry. Prior to joining HDFC AMC, he was the Executive director and Chief Investment officer of SBI Funds management Private Limited and was responsible for overseeing AUM over USD 150 billion across mutual funds and segregated accounts. Navneet was also a Director on the board of SBI Pension Funds (P) Limited.

In prior assignments, he was the Executive Director & Head – multi-strategy boutique with Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Chief Investment Officer – Fixed Income and Hybrid Funds at Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund.

Navneet has a master’s degree in Accountancy and Business Statistics and a qualified Chartered Accountant. He is a Charter Holder of the CFA Institute and CAIA Institute. He has also done Financial Risk Management (FRM).

Imtaiyazur Rahman is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He has more than three decades of experience in management, business leadership, leading change and forming strategic alliances. He joined the UTI Group in 1998 as part of UTI Investor Services Ltd. and joined UTI AMC Ltd. in 2003. He was also the CFO of the Company from 2005. In his role as Group President & Chief Finance Officer, he headed the functions of Finance, Accounts, Taxation, Information Technology, Board related matters, Offshore funds, Alternate Investments and Portfolio Management Services.
He is a Science graduate and Fellow member of Institute of Cost Accountants of India; and Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He holds a Certified Public Accountancy degree (USA); has attended GAMP from Indian School of Business & Kellogg School of Management and has also completed the Leadership programme – “Leading for Results” from INSEAD (France).
He has been awarded ESG Competent Board’s Global Certification and Designation. He has also been conferred a Honorary doctorate degree, D.Litt, by the ITM University, Raipur.
He has successfully completed programs on “Making Corporate Boards more Effective”, “Compensation Committees-New Challenges, New Solutions” and “Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance” from the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Rahman is on the Board of UTI International (Singapore), UTI Alternatives Pvt. Ltd., UTI Pension Fund Ltd. and UTI Venture Funds Management Co. Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Rahman was a director on the Board of IndianOil Adani Ventures Ltd. He is a Member of CII National Committee on Financial Markets – 2024-25.
He was the Chairperson for the FICCI Task Force on ESG;; CII Financial Sector Development Council; and Banking & Finance Committee of IMC Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He was on the Board of Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) and is presently a permanent invitee to the AMFI Board Meetings.

Anjali Mullatti is the former CEO & M.D of Finitiatives Learning India Pvt. Ltd.,(FLIP) a pioneering Financial Services Edtech. She co-founded and scaled this boot-strapped company, setting up the entire e.learning eco system- technology platform, e.learning development, learning delivery. Apart from an e.learning catalogue ranging from retail banking to global markets, FLIP also established a proprietary certification standard, offering 26 certifications across banking and financial markets.
Prior to this, Anjali has worked in Cognizant Tech (Financial Services Group) and Bank of America (Retail Lending).
Anjali also was the founding and Managing Trustee of the Manjunath Shanmugam Trust, which focussed on good governance initiatives.
She has been awarded the ‘keys’ to IIM Lucknow and the ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ award by IIMPACT – a global IIM alumni forum – for her work with the Trust.
Anjali currently is Partner Skills Strategy & Startup Consulting – Financial Services at Catalyst Consulting, a strategy consulting and training firm she has co-founded.
She is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Mr. Sunil Kadam is the Registrar of National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), a capacity building initiative of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Mr. Kadam holds a degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Pune. Mr. Kadam is a Chief General Manager at SEBI. Prior to taking over as Registrar of NISM, Mr. Kadam was Regional Director of Northern Regional Office of SEBI. Mr. Kadam has joined SEBI in 1996 and during his tenure in SEBI he has worked in various departments in SEBI and handled the work relating to administration of MIIs, Inspection, Market Surveillance, Investigations, Corporate Governance, Issue management and policies related to these areas. He was also part of various committees in SEBI.