Sudhir Kumar Mishra is an Indian engineer, defence scientist and civil servant. He is currently the director general at the

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, and the chief executive officer and managing director of

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, a joint venture between India's and Russia's ministries of defence.

Early life and education

Mishra was born and brought up in

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, Madhya Pradesh in central India. Throughout meritorious, he got admission in to the

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department of the prestigious

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where he received his bachelor's degree in 1982. He later received his master's degree from the

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...

and his doctoral degree from the

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Career

Soon after graduating from IIT Madras, he joined DRDO's main missile laboratory, the DRDL Hyderabad in 1984 and worked under

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and other eminent scientists on the

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and other missile programmes of India, including the

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and

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, coordinating several defence R&D projects between India and Russia. He served as the Director (Missiles) at DRDO overseeing all the missile programmes of India, and later as the Chief Controller (Research and Development) at DRDO. He has been awarded with the “DRDO Scientist of the Year Award 2009” by the Prime Minister of India.

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