Hon'ble Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi is the Chairman of the Law Commission of India. He was the former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court. A leading legal luminary who has had an illustrious journey in the field of law, Justice Awasthi graduated in law from Lucknow University in the year 1986. Following which, he started his legal practice in the year 1987, post his enrolment as Advocate in 1987. Since beginning, his expertise included civil, service and education matters at the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court. In 2007, he was appointed the Assistant Solicitor of India for Allahabad High Court. After practising for more than 20 years, he was elevated to Additional Judge on 13th April 2009 and became a permanent Judge on 24th December, 2010. Hon'ble Justice Awasthi was also nominated as the Senior Judge at High Court in Lucknow in 2021 and thereafter was elevated as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court in 2021.

Mr. Pradeep K. Kheruka, Executive Chairman of Borosil Renewables Limited, and Borosil Ltd., is a leading industrialist of India actively associated with the glass industry for over 50 years. His entrepreneurial journey, which began at the age of 17, is a story of innovation and modernization. By the time he turned 25, he decided to focus on the export market and soon became the largest Indian glass exporter in the country and garnered several awards, including the National Award from the President of India. He is credited with many 'firsts' and ground-breaking products in the modern glass industry.

Mr. C. K. Mishra has been a career civil servant belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. He joined the Service (IAS) in 1983 and superannuated as Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. He has been spearheading the Indian efforts at addressing Climate Change issues and at policy interventions in matters relating to pollution and air quality. He led India's negotiations at important forums such as United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Conference of the Parties (COP)) to aid progress in dealing with climate change; Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and various other multilateral events. He was also the administrative head of Forest & Wildlife conservation efforts in India where India saw continuous increase in forest cover. His interventions and policy initiatives have taken India in the category of few countries in the world on course to achieve the 2 degree world target of global warming.

A multidimensional personality, Dr. Berlia is a leading Entrepreneur, Industrialist and Educationist who has devoted her life to nation-building with a global footprint. A woman of many firsts, Mrs Berlia was the first woman to lead a multi-state apex chamber of commerce in India, serving as the President of the PHDCCI in 2005. She was the first woman in India to lead her own pharmaceutical company, when not yet 30 and was the first woman entrepreneur of a major educational group in India. She has an outstanding track record of immense contribution of around four decades in the Pharmaceutical industry. She has been instrumental in launching highly successful niche and innovative products with several patents on new drug delivery systems and presentation forms. She has played a pivotal role in promoting industry-academia interface and capacity building in pharmacovigilance and emerging areas in manufacturing, technology and drug development in India. Under her stewardship, the Group developed a unique one-window national distribution pharmaceutical network of global standards, thereby improving availability and access of drugs nationwide.

Dr. Anup Wadhawan, IAS (Retd.) is an economic and public policy professional with 40 years work experience in various sectors, including the civil service, regulation, academics, private sector, and international development. He spent 36 years in the Indian Administrative Service and served as India's Commerce Secretary for 3 years. During this tenure, he managed India's Foreign Trade Policy, negotiated bilateral, regional and multilateral trade deals, and implemented measures to promote exports and create an investor-friendly environment. He was also responsible for policymaking and oversight in banking, insurance, the national pension system, and capital markets. He played a significant role in framing of the Insurance Laws Amendment Act 2015, which reformed the Indian insurance sector, raised the foreign investment cap, and allowed foreign reinsurers and Lloyds to operate in India. He also oversaw the management of the National Pension System corpus as PFRDA chair, coordinated capital markets policy and regulation with the Securities and Exchange Board and the Reserve Bank of India, promoted foreign portfolio and direct investment flows, and coordinated matters related to the Financial Stability Board, Financial Stability and Development Council, and Financial Action Task Force. During his tenure at the Prime Minister's office, he provided inputs on macroeconomic and sectoral policy reforms in areas like regulation, PPPs, fiscal management, and the power sector.

During his long and distinguished career, Mr. Munjee has been at the helm of creating and building of some of India's foremost financial institutions which stems from his abiding interest in the problems of development in an emerging economy. After being educated in the UK and the US, he began his career with the creation of the first mortgage company in India - the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) - with which he was associated for twenty years, rising to be its Director. At the request of the Chairman of HDFC, he was asked to create a new institution on the lines of HDFC, for infrastructure finance as mortgage finance had come to be well established and the country needed huge investments in infrastructure. He created the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) in joint partnership with government and both domestic and international institutions.

After spearheading IDFC for several years, Mr. Munjee today uses his countless years of experience in a number of different activities as advisor or non-executive director. He is presently on the Board of several public companies in India, a few internationally and is involved with other institutions as chairman, member of the board, or as a trustee.

With over 45 years of professional experience in business leadership, Mr. Eugene Mayne leads all the activities of Tristar Group spanning Surface Transport, Ocean and Coastal Transport, Specialized Warehousing, Fuel Farm Management, Turkey Fuel Supply Operations, Commercial Aviation Services, Lubricants and Chemicals Distribution. A very Effective communicator and motivator who identifies and leverages assets to reach organizational goals, under his leadership the group and its entities have grown to become Middle East's largest privately-owned liquid logistics company with operations in more than 29 countries spread across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and Americas. Over the years he has received a number of prestigious accolades and awards including Seatrade Maritime Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 Middle East, Indian Subcontinent & Africa and has been chronicled as a logistics leader by the ITP Media Group.

As Director, Foreign Investment Promotion Board in the Union Department of Industrial Policy, he was closely associated with the liberalization of foreign direct investment policy and industrial policy reforms. As Chairperson, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, he is credited with bringing many critical medicines, including vital medical devices under price control, to make essential medicines more affordable to the common man. As Director General Sports Authority of India, he developed the ‘National Sports Development Code’, and conducted South Asian Games-2016 and formulated the ‘Khelo India Scheme’, a novel initiative.

As Union Secretary, Corporate Affairs, he played a key role in the implementation of several major economic reforms & laws, including the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, which has deeply impacted the borrowing culture in the country and helped banks effectively tackle the problem of non-performing assets. He is also credited with implementation of several initiatives aimed at enhancing the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ in India, including decriminalization of various petty offences under the latest Companies Act. He was responsible for major initiatives in Corporate Governance, including strengthening the key institution of Independent Directors. He chaired several key official committees, including on the Insolvency Law, Competition Law Review, and decriminalisation of Companies Act and Corporate Social Responsibility.

His vast areas of specialization includes Corporate Law, Industrial Policy, Foreign Direct Investment, Development Financing and MSME Development. After retirement, the Government has appointed him as the first Chairperson of the newly-established ‘International Financial Services Centres Authority’ (IFSCA), a unified financial regulator for international financial centres in India. Within just 2 years, IFSCA has attained considerable visibility as a gateway to global capital flows into India.

Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta is an AGMUT (erstwhile J&K) cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Services. He has vast administrative experience in both, Jammu and Kashmir, and the Government of India, where he has displayed an extraordinary acumen as a leader.

He is currently the Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. Since his appointment he has initiated key good governance initiatives for the development of the State, including security initiatives, which have resulted in unprecedented flow of tourists last year and uptake in a number of economic activities. His initiatives in Sustainable Tourism has already started paying dividends to India. IOD’s forthcoming Conclave in London has excited the British trade and industry to ___ his presence there. His unique digitisation initiatives including UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) have been instrumental in integrating all government services on a single platform, amongst a number of other initiatives such as ‘E-office’, ‘Rapid Assessment System' (RAS), 'e-Kitabkosh', 'J&K Employees Performance Monitoring Portal' (EPM), and so on. He has also undertaken a number of innovative measures in a short span of time, since assuming charge to increase transparency, curb corruption, youth/youth engagement, etc. His strategic approach towards industrial development and implementation of the Government of India’s new Industrial Policy has resulted in an unstoppable flow of investment proposals from domestic and foreign sources worth more than Rs. 70,000 crore, promising greater local employment opportunities. His focus on all-round development of his state is exhibited through his special initiatives for infrastructure development, air connectivity, easy availability of water, agriculture, health, housing & urban development.

Mr. Prabh Das has been single-handedly instrumental in establishing HMEL since its inception, including the formation of the pioneering public-private joint venture. He formally joined HMEL in 2008, and has been instrumental in setting up of the Guru Gobind Singh Refinery project, and its successful operations thereafter. He possesses vast and wide-ranging experience in administration and modern management, having served in the Indian Administrative Services for over 25 years. He is responsible for leading and managing HMEL and its subsidiaries as Managing Director and CEO.

Prior to joining HMEL, Mr. Das served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from 2003 to 2008, where he was in-charge of the Refineries Division, and was instrumental in implementing the ‘Auto Fuel’ policy, strategic storage and new initiatives in Oil Diplomacy. He led the transformation of the domestic refining sector which included strengthening refining capacities, improving refining operations, safety aspects and introduction of new technologies.