ICAI - President and Vice President for 2010-11

CA. Amarjit Chopra elected as President of ICAI

and

CA. G. Ramaswamy elected as Vice-President of ICAI

About the PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT :

CA. Amarjit Chopra, a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), with more than three decades of standing, has been elected as the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), for the year 2010-11 by the Twenty First Council on February 12, 2010. During his tenure in the Central Council, he has been the Chairman of Accounting Standards Board, Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, and Corporate Laws Committee for two years each and has been the Chairman of Expert Advisory Committee, Financial Reporting Review Board, Committee on Corporate Governance and Committee on Internal Audit for an year each.

He was nominated by the Punjab Government on the Committee for fixing the fee for the medical institutions. He was nominated to the Consultancy Syndicate and Energy Syndicate of the MOU TASK FORCE for the years 2008-09 and 2009-2010 respectively constituted by the Department of Public Enterprises.

He has been a speaker in International Conferences on Quality Control of Audit and Corporate Governance convergence with IFRS at Dubai, Karachi, Sri Lanka and London. He is also a Technical Advisor to International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board as ICAI representative.

He was actively involved in teaching for more than 20 years at Delhi University and is presently visiting faculty to some Management Institutes. He has been delivering lectures in training programmes at various banking institutions and C&AG Office. He is on the Board of various reputed companies including RICO Auto Ltd. He was a Central Government nominee on the Board of Bank of Baroda for a period of three years up to October, 2009 wherein he was also the Chairman of the Audit Committee.

CA.G.Ramaswamy, a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), with more than two decades of standing, has been elected as the Vice President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), for the year 2010-11 by the Twenty First Council on February 12, 2010.

During his tenure in Central Council, he has held important positions in Standing and Non Standing committees of the ICAI viz. Member of Disciplinary Committee (Old and new mechanism) and Examination Committee, etc. He has served as Chairman Fiscal Laws Committee. His has made noteworthy contributions as Vice Chairman for Committee on Accounting Standards for Local Bodies, Audit Committee and Committee on International Taxation. He was the nominated member of SAFA Committee for improvement in Transparency, Accountability and Governance.

CA G. Ramaswamy has the distinction of being the 1st nominated member of the Quality Review Board, an external body constituted under the Chartered Accountants (Amendment) Act, 2006 to act as an oversight body of the profession.

During the term 2004-07, he was a member of the Disciplinary Committee continuosly for 2 years. He was the Chairman of Continuing Professional Education Committee and Vice Chairman-Committee on Information Technology, Committee on Corporate Governance, Fiscal Laws Committee, Commerce Education and Career counseling. He was nominated as Vice Chairman in SAFA Centre of Excellence on Standards and Quality Control and as a member of SAFA task force.

During the term 2007-10, he was a member of Board of Discipline, ICAI-ICSI-ICWAI Co-ordination Committee, Committee on Ethical standards, Committee for Members in Industry, HR and Admin Committee, Committee of Direct and Indirect Taxes Committee for SMP’s, Research Committee, Representation Committee, Committee on Insurance and Pension, etc. He also worked as member of International Affairs committee, FRRB, Editorial Board, Corporate and Allied Laws Committee, etc. During these two terms, he served as a member of Professional Development Committee, Audit committee, Continuing Professional Education Committee, AASB. He has also served in various sub groups of ICAI on Service tax, CES, DTC, CA (Amendments) Act of ICAI and worked as Chairman SIRC Audit committee of ICAI.

During his tenure as Chairman of SIRC of ICAI in 1999-00, SIRC bagged the best Regional Council award . He served as a member of the Southern India Regional Council (SIRC) of the ICAI from 1994-2000. He was the Chairman of Coimbatore Branch of ICAI from 1988-89 and as a member of Managing Committee of the Coimbatore Branch of SIRC of ICAI for the period 1984-89.

CA.G.Ramaswamy was born in 1954 and hails from Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. A practicing Chartered Accountant since 1984 he is a also a fellow member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India ( ICSI).

He was also the member of Body of Board of Governors of Institute of Internal Auditors, [IIA]-Chennai. He has vast experience in the field of taxation, company law matters, audit and internal audit, management and tax consultancy for more than two decades.

CA. G. Ramaswamy is a prolific speaker having addressed various National and International Conferences on Accounting and Auditing Standards, Taxation, Company Law matters, Banking and topics in relation with profession.

A keen golfer, he is a member of various social clubs and organizations.He has widely traveled and visited number of foreign countries and was part of internationd delegations and study tours.