Mr. Agarwal is an expert of Regulatory, Securities & Commodities Markets, Income Tax, Enforcement, and General Administration and Management. Mr. Agarwal has nearly three decades of service and contribution to the Indian financial sector covering, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Forward Markets Commission and Indian Revenue Service. Currently, Mr. Agarwal is a Consultant – Arbitrator.

Mr. Agarwal recently retired (November 2016) from the post of Whole Time Member at Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) where he was responsible for policy formulation, regulation and enforcement in the securities markets in India.

He was Governor on the Board of National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM)during the period 2012-16. Before joining SEBI, he served as the Member of the Forward Markets Commission (FMC), the regulator for the commodity futures business for a period of five and half years and was responsible for the framing of regulations for the Commodities Markets which had been liberalized just then.
Mr. Agarwal is alumnus of The Indian Revenue Service (batch of 1983) and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Bachelor of Technology).