CA. (Dr.) Sanjeev Kumar Singhal is Fellow member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with more than 24 years of experience. He is Central Council Member of ICAI and Chairman of Auditing & Assurance Standards Board (AASB) and Vice-Chairperson of Sustainability Reporting Standards Board (SRSB) of ICAI. He is Member in National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA), Director in XBRL India and Member in UNCTAD ISAR Honors Committee 2022. Under his able leadership, SRSB of ICAI has taken various initiatives towards implementing measures to improve sustainability, developing assurance standards on areas related to sustainability and initiating dialogues with Government, Regulators, and other bodies.
He has addressed more than 1000 seminars and webinars on pertinent topics at various national and international forums. He has over 21 books published by leading publishers including Bharat Law House, CCH, Lexis Nexis, Bloomsbury etc., on Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS), IGAAP, Companies Act,2013, revised Schedule VI, etc. to his credit. He has also published several research papers in leading journals and ICAI publications. He has been part of the Technical Group on Social Stock Exchange of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Apart from his active participation in meetings of various international standard setting forums, he is also representing ICAI on South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) Task Force on Sustainability and Working Committee on PAO Capacity Building of ASEAN Federation of Accountants (AFA). He has also chaired 39th session of UNCTAD Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting.