The Company Secretaries' Institute has a new President in R Sridharan, a Chennai-based practicing company secretary.
Sridharan was elected uncontested as President at a meeting of the central council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) in the capital on Friday, a ICSI release said.
The Central Council also elected uncontested Vikas Y Khare, a fellow member of the institute, as the Vice-President of ICSI.
Sridharan, a fellow member of the ICSI, has replaced S.N.Ananthasubramnian as ICSI President.
This is the first time in several years that an incumbent ICSI Vice-President has not gone on to become the President of the company secretaries' institute.
It is tradition for the Vice-President to become the President of the Company Secretaries' Institute.