He has applied this methodology to his current role. At Barclays, Shukla is a member of the Asia Pacific regional leadership team for legal, the Asia Pacific compliance management team. He represents legal and compliance on the India country management committee, and on the executive committee of the India operations and technology services company. His role is to manage the legal function in India comprising of 10 lawyers, and the compliance functions with a team of 70 compliance professionals as well as all cross-border transactions, regulatory matters and the implementation of policies relating to legal changes. Shukla values leading from the front and being an integral part of the enterprise, and considers this to be what makes in-house counsel not only successful but credible, and the one key element that provides a significant wealth of experiential learning and growth. Shukla identifies that, ‘challenges are best dealt with rather than avoided, and they come in all forms and shapes, but each one of them only adds to what you learn from them, and all of it in the aggregate gives you the tools you need to deal with the new ones that come your way’. He adds that ‘the ability to adapt is a habit that has to remain a primary constant in this context and with it comes the attendant requirements of continuous up-skilling, and investment in learning, enhancement of delivery as [well as] the speed and the quality of delivery’.

2010 (and current)
Barclays Bank PLC
(Banking and Financial services)
Managing Director, Legal and Lead – India Regulatory and Government Relations, Barclays India;
Managing Director, Legal and Compliance – India (2017 to 2019)

2001 - 2010
Citibank, N.A.
(Banking and Financial services)
Director, General Counsel, South Asia, Citigroup

1990-2010
Previous experience Legal Roles

Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited (Life Insurance)
ANZ Grindlays Bank Limited (Banking and Financial services)
ITC Limited, Kolkata (Cigarettes, tobacco, paper and packaging, hotels and foods)
Indian Aluminium Company, Limited, Kolkata (Aluminium and Aluminium products)

Member:

• since January 2018, of the executive board, and trustee of, the Foundation for Mother and Child Health (FMCH), an Indian not-for-profit. Founded in 2006, FMCH is focussed on innovative nutrition-specific interventions in vulnerable communities and promotes maternal and child health and nutrition including through training. FMCH works in partnership with the communities, and often alongside government agencies.
• since 2017, of the Editorial Board of the India Business Law Journal.
• the Institute of Directors, India.
• the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) India Working Group.
• the India Forum of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA).
• Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA) India Committee.
• the In-House Community (ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL and the IN-HOUSE CONGRESS)
• Mentor to potential issuer companies with 1Crowd (a crowd funding platform operated by Zeva Capsol Private Limited in India).