Mr. Kaushik is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with over 25 years of experience and presently Chairman of Zomato Ltd. He retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers after spending over 22 years in the practice out of which 17 years have been as a partner. Advisory Board of PwC, national IFRS leader, Corporate Governance Practice leader, amongst other national and global roles. Since retiring, he has been retained as an expert on Corporate Governance by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in matters relating to future of corporate governance in India.
He has participated in the Naresh Chandra Committee’s deliberations for developing the norms of Corporate Governance in India. Sir has also worked with Conference Board of the U.S.A., Asian Development Bank, Institute of Directors UK,Asian Institute of Corporate Governance, Genesis Park, USA, the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, CII, Assocham, Department of Public Enterprises, National Foundation for Corporate Governance etc. on governance matters. He has been a founding member of CII’s National Council on Corporate Governance.
He has co-authored a book titled ‘Corporate Governance: Myth to Reality’. He also wrote a book on history of Indian business titled ‘India Means Business: How the Elephant Earned Its Stripes’ which has been published by Oxford University Press.
Mr. Kaushik has been a visiting faculty at IIM-Lucknow and IIM-Calcutta for the course in Financial Statements and Reporting. Sir is active at various professional forums on international reporting and governance issues and has prepared a number of research papers for The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and other universities and business schools on various financial issues. He writes extensively in the business columns of leading newspapers on governance and reporting issues.