Mr Chandiok is the India CEO of Grant Thornton LLP, a firm he co-founded in 2001 which has since grown to over 5,000 personnel with over 15 office locations in India. He became the youngest member to have been elected to the Global Board of Governors of GT from 1 January 2016, the ultimate decision-making authority within the organization. He has a deep interest in typical issues between business, ownership and governance and is amongst India’s foremost commentators of the subject of Family Business & Governance. Mr Chandiok worked with the Late Naresh Chandra, one of the fathers of India’s corporate governance, on defining a Country Action Plan for Accounting & Auditing for India on behalf of the World Bank; most of the recommendations made in the report have been adopted over the last decade including most recently with the Companies Act 2013. He is also the North Region Chair of Economic Affairs & Tax At CII, and his firm actively works with the Government on all its programs and priorities - Smart cities, Make in India, Skill India, Digital India, -and in Transforming India (working with NITI). Mr Chandiok also has the privilege to serve on the Board of IIM Amritsar, the US India Business Council’s India Advisory Board and YPO Capital New Delhi.