Shri Santosh Kumar Shukla is senior legal and regulatory professional with nearly 30 years of experience at SEBI, where he currently serves as a Quasi-Judicial Authority and Joint Legal Adviser. He has played an important role in major policy and legislative initiatives, enforcement actions, adjudication, and reforms such as the corporatisation and demutualisation of stock exchanges. He also serves as Executive Director at the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) on deputation, overseeing legal affairs, prosecution, vigilance, disciplinary matters, and regulation of service providers and valuers. With experience across law, finance, securities, and banking, he has contributed to several SEBI and RBI working groups and coordinated with enforcement agencies on market integrity and investor protection measures.