Dr. (h.c.) Adv. Mamta Binani is the National Past President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for the year 2016 and she relinquished the office of President on 19th January, 2017. She is the second lady President of ICSI in the illustrious history of the Institute of 54 years.

She was practicing as a Company Secretary for over 21 years and was a senior partner of Mamta Binani & Associates, having offices at Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai and Guwahati. She is now practicing as an Advocate and is also a consultant on restructuring, corporate and legal matters. She is a registered Insolvency Professional. She is the first insolvency professional in the country, to be registered with the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India.

She is the Vice President of the Kolkata National Company Law Tribunal Bar Association and is the Chairperson of the Merchant Chamber of Commerce-Legal Affairs Council which also oversees Corporate Law and Governance and is the Co-Chairperson of the Stressed Resolution Committee of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is the Immediate Past President of Calcutta Citizen’s Initiative, an NGO, working very closely on issues concerning the citizenry on environment, nature and mankind issues. She is an executive committee member of INSOL India. She is a Board Member of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and is the Co-Chair for the India Network.

She has been bestowed with various medals, certificates and awards including the prestigious D.L. Mazumdar's Silver Medal and Mauji Ram Memorial Award and Tejaswini Award (2010), the "Bharat Nirman Awards" in the year 2010 for "Excellence in Professional Services" (the first Company Secretary to have received this prestigious award), the KKMERS award for excellence in profession and also the ‘Hello Kolkata’ award for exemplary work in social sector. She has been chosen as ‘The Most Admired Global Indian 2020’ and her story has been featured in the anniversary edition of ‘Passion Vista’, a business magazine and she has been conferred with the Insolvency Law Award Winner (India) for 2020 by the International Advisory Experts and Asian African Leadership Awards in Legal & Professional Services.

She is the first Indian to have been endowed with the prestigious award of 'IWIRC Women of the Year in Restructuring (Asia) Award, 2021'. She has been the awardee of the ‘AsiaOne Women Empowerment Principles Leadership Awards 2020-21’ and was felicitated at the 15th Edition of Asian Business & Social Forum 2021, Awards & Business E-Summit, on 26th October 2021 at Emirates Ball Room, Marriott Marquis Hotel, Dubai.

Ms. Binani is a regular acclaimed speaker at professional forums and shares her passion for writing through leading journals, magazines and newspapers. She has represented the institute at various forums in many countries in the matters of contemporary laws, governance and corporate social responsibility. She also serves as an Independent Director on few of the prestigious Boards and has served as the promoter director of the ICSI Insolvency Professionals Agency (now known as ICSI Institute of Insolvency Professionals).