CA. Atul Kumar Gupta, presently the President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India served the Accountancy Profession for more than two decades, widely respected for his strong organisational skills and deep insight in the affairs of profession. A commerce and a law graduate by education, served as Chairman of Digital Accounting and Assurance Board, Board of Studies, IT Committee and Indirect Taxes Committee of ICAI. Under his stewardship at Board of Studies, the New Scheme of Education and Training of ICAI that was benchmarked with the revised International Education Standards, was launched in 2017.Through ICAI-ARF, he is credited for the project of preparation of accrual-based financial statements of the Indian Railways (third largest Railway of world).

Mr. Gupta is Chairman of ICAI Research wing ICAI – Accounting Research Foundation and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) India. He is also Director of the Governing Board of Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals and Registered Valuers Organisation. He is also the First Chairman of the Accounting and Finance Services Sectional Committee constituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards. 
CA. Atul Gupta is member of Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board (GASAB), Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA), SEBI’s Primary Market Advisory Committee.On International front, he is on the Board of XBRL International and South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) and representing ICAI in International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). He, earlier, has been the Chairman of Committee on Education, Training & CPD of SAFA.

Being thoroughly conversant with the professional concerns and demands of his times, CA. Gupta has authored many relevant books and has published numerous articles in leading newspapers, magazines and professional newsletters, and delivered lectures in about 1500 seminars and conferences.