Pramod Kumar Mishra

Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra (IAST: Pramoda Kumāra Miśra; born 11 August 1948), often abbreviated P. K. Mishra, is a retired IAS officer of 1972 batch belonging to Gujarat cadre and serves as the 13th and current Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. Between 2001 and 2004, Mishra has also served as the principal secretary of Modi, when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.^[1]

Dr. Dr.Pramod Kumar Mishra
Mishra in 2025
13th Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 September 2019 Serving with Shaktikanta Das
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Nripendra Misra
Chairman of Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission
In office 2 September 2008 – 11 August 2013
Agriculture Secretary of India
In office 1 December 2006 – 31 August 2008
Personal details
Born	(1948-08-11) 11 August 1948 (age 76) Sambalpur, Odisha, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Sambalpur University Delhi School of Economics Delhi University University of Sussex
Occupation	Bureaucrat civil servant
Employer	Indian Administrative Services

Education

He did his M.A. in economics with a first class at the Delhi School of Economics in 1972. He later did an M.A. in Development economics in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Economics/Development Studies from the University of Sussex.^[2][3][4]

Career

On 11 September 2019, he was appointed as the Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister of India. Apart from serving as the Additional Principal Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Mishra has served in various key positions for both Indian and Gujarat governments, such as the Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue), Principal Secretary (Agriculture and Cooperation), Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Gujarat, member of the Gujarat Electricity Board, and as the district magistrate and collector of Mehsana and Banaskantha districts in the Government of Gujarat, and as the Union Agriculture Secretary, special secretary in Ministry of Home Affairs, additional secretary in Ministry of Urban Development, and as the member secretary of National Capital Region Planning Board in the Government of India.

After his retirement from the Indian Administrative Service, Mishra was appointed the chairman of Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission by the Chief Minister of Gujarat.^[5][6][7] His term as the chairman of commission came to an end on 11 August 2013, when he attained the age of 65.^[8]

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister

Mishra (centre-right) with Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh (centre) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) director general R. K. Pachnanda (centre-left).

Mishra (right) with NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar (centre) and a Japanese vice-minister for policy coordination in Cabinet Office, Mamoru Maekawa (left).

After the election of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India, Mishra was appointed as the Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, in the rank and status of Cabinet Secretary, the Government of India's topmost bureaucrat,^[9][10][11] and was deemed to have been re-employed into the IAS.^{[12][13][14][15][16][1]}

On 11 June 2019, Mishra was re-appointed as Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved his appointment along with the re-appointment of Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra with effect from 31 May 2019. These appointments were designated to be co-terminous with the term of the Prime Minister. On 11 September 2019 PK Mishra was appointed as the sole Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India.

Awards

• United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on 17 May 2019 conferred the Sasakawa Award 2019 for Disaster Risk Reduction.^[17]