Mr. Gobinda Gopal Mitra, ACMA, is a Certified Cost & Management Accountant from the Indian Cost Account Service (ICoAS). He retired from public service as Chief Cost Advisor (Retd.) at the Tariff Commission, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Central Government of India, back in 2021, after a remarkable career spanning over 35+ years. His extensive experience includes (i) key roles in cost, management, and financial accounting across medium to large manufacturing and mining industries in sectors such as power, pharmaceuticals, iron ore, and warships, within both private and public sector organizations, and (ii) significant contributions to regulatory and cost accounting functions within various Ministries and Departments of the Government of India, focusing on pharmaceutical pricing and monitoring, anti-dumping investigations, cost determination of regulated products (including fertilizers and petroleum products), and the analysis of cost audit reports and data.

Beyond his professional career in commercial organizations and government service, he has over four years of teaching experience at Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, a prominent undergraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta, as well as more than 18 months of teaching postgraduate business studies at Jaypee Business School under Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Currently, he manages his pan-India tax and financial management firm Finalex Consultancy Services, based in Kolkata, West Bengal, where he provides professional financial consultancy to businesses of various sizes in the pharmaceutical and fertilizer industries.

In addition to his professional endeavors, he serves as a Trustee of Sri Sri Radhamadan Gopal Sevak Sangha, a registered public religious trust, and holds the position of Joint Secretary at Sri Sri Shyam Binodini Kunja, a Vaishnava Ashram established over a century ago by a close associate and disciple of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

In his leisure time, he enjoys reading and writing about a variety of socio-economic issues affecting the global economic and political landscape, as well as traveling the world.