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Ms. Mamta Sharma Chairperson  (02-08-2011)  Smt. Mamta Sharma took over charge as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women w.e.f 2nd August, 2011. Belonging to an illustrious political family and being a proud daughter of an ardent patriot Shri Dharlal Devta, who took active part in the freedom struggle and laid down his life in the fight for freedom of India, Smt, Sharma had also joined active politics in 1985 and was nominated as the Executive member of Rajasthan Red Cross Society in the following year in 1986 and later became the General Secretary of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee and led many movements for the welfare of the down-trodden and weaker sections of the society in the State of Rajasthan.
She had contested the Assembly Elections of the State from Bundi Constituency and won by a great margin defeating her nearest rival and in the year 2002, was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary during the Cabinet expansion. She was also nominated as a Member of the Senate of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer and was also a Member of the Telephone Advisory Committee from 1995-97 and 2002-04. She was re-elected for the State Assembly from Bundi Constituency in the year 2003, defeating her nearest rival by a landslide margin again and was the only lone woman candidate to have won the 2003 Assembly Elections out of 18 women contested, which is a rare recognition given to her by the people of her Constituency for having served her people in a true spirit and having taken up and addressed their day-to-day issues in the State Assembly. She was appointed as the President of the Rajasthan Pradesh Mahila Congress in the year 2004, which post she held till January, 2010, in which she voiced the important issues concerning the people of Rajasthan like price rise, provision of a viable drinking water supply system, removing illiteracy and eradication of poverty and involvement of women empowerment in all such schemes. She extensively travelled in India and had visited USA, England, Scotland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Denmark, Middle-Eastern countries, Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius and Nepal. She was actively voicing her concerns on the issues of empowerment, legal entitlement and Constitutional rights relating to women, their marginalization in various fora, in all the assignments that she had held in the past and had made all out efforts to address the issues at relevant authorities. Smt. Sharma believes in maintaining a transparent, responsive and clear system of public interface to address various issues and had also given utmost importance to grievance redressal in NCW. As Chairperson of NCW, she has travelled extensively in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka to know the pulse of the people. NCW undoubtedly feels proud to be under the leadership of Smt. Mamta Sharma, the Chairperson of NCW.
Ms. Charu WaliKhanna, Advocate Member (02-08-2011) Dr. Charu WaliKhanna, is a leading women’s rights lawyer and former Member Executive Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). She was counsel for the Union of India in Supreme Court and has been working in the field of WOMEN’S RIGHTS for over a decade. She is the only advocate to have been honoured by SCBA for 6 consecutive years (2004-09). MA Sociology, PG Diplomas in Intellectual Property Rights Law from Indian Law Institute; and Human Rights & International Humanitarian and Refugee Laws from Society of International Law; she has attended session on Public  International
Law at Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands. An eminent jurist, on Governing Body of National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), Member Ethics Committee NDTL and also former Director, Delhi Gymkhana Club. Dr. Charu WaliKhanna started her career in the world of advertising with a Diploma from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai. Having achieved success at an early age and disturbed by the violence and inequalities in society, as lawyer she advanced the cause of vulnerable and marginalized sections of society, especially women. She founded Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar (SAFMA) a NGO with Special Consultative status of the ECOSOC of the United Nations. She has developed simple self help manuals for women in vernacular languages e.g. Hindi and Tamil on the special Constitutional provisions for women, Right to Life; Violence against Women including Domestic Violence, Dowry, Female Feticide, Sexual harassment, How to file a FIR, legal aid; Panchayati Raj & Governance. Using law as a tool for development she has authored books: “Women Silent Victims In Armed Conflict : An Area Study of Jammu & Kashmir”; “Supreme Court & High Court Judgements relating to Women & Children” and “Laws on Violence Against Women. Research works include “Drug Abuse Among Scheduled Caste Women in Gwalior Madhya Pradesh- A Female Perspective” for Min. of Social Justice & Empowerment; “Human Rights Violations of Victims of Trafficking” and “Discrimination of Girl Child in Uttar Pradesh” on behalf of National Commission for Women. Dr Charu WaliKhanna, has organised and conducted numerous Gender Sensitization Workshops and seminars on gender and the law. In coordination with Delhi Police she conducted Gender Sensitization Workshops for constables in Police Stations of South Delhi District, in which the self help manuals are used as training tools.
Anita Agnihotri, IAS Member Secretary  (07-10-2011) Anita Agnihotri belongs to the 1980 batch of the Indian Administrative Service borne in the Orissa Cadre. She has held a number of varied assignments in Government of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of Orissa and Government of West Bengal including Social Welfare, Water Resources, Industry, Handloom & Textiles, and Information & Cultural Affairs. Anita Agnihotri has graduated in Economics with Hons. from the Presidency College, Kolkata and done her Masters in Economics from University of Kolkata and subsequently Masters in Development Economics from University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
She is a well known author of creative fiction, children writings, books on development discourse and has authored over 30 books. Anita Agnihotri has been translated in different Indian languages including English and German and also in Swedish.