The Institute of Companies Secretaries of India (ICSI) has elected B Narasimhan and Dhananjay Shukla as the president and vice-president of the institute for the current year 2024. The new president will precede CS Manish Gupta. CS B Narasimhan was the vice president of the institute in 2023.

CS B Narasimhan is a postgraduate 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 2023.  

He was elected to the Central Council of the ICSI for the first time in 2007 and was re-elected in 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. 

CS Dhananjay Shukla, a commerce and law graduate, is a fellow member of the ICSI. He is a practising Company Secretary based in Gurgaon and has been practicing 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 and 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.