Mr. Raj Kumar Patodi is a Chartered Accountant, practicing under the name and style of M/s. R K Patodi & Co., Chartered Accountants in Kolkata for the past 55 years.

He is a graduate in Commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and graduate in Law from the University of Calcutta. He has vast experience in Income Tax matters, having specialized in taxation of charities. In his earlier years of practice, he specialized in Company Law and assisted Mr. M C Bhandari, an author on Company Law, in writing a book entitled "Company Law Procedures", which used to be considered a Ready Reckoner on the subject.