Rishi Kumar Shukla

Rishi Kumar Shukla (born 23 August 1960) is a retired IPS officer and a former director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), from 2 February 2019 to 2 February 2021.^[1][2]

Honourable Rishi Kumar Shukla
Director of Central Bureau of Investigation
In office 2 February 2019 – 2 February 2021
Appointed by	Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Preceded by	Mannem Nageswara Rao
Succeeded by	Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
Director General of Police of Madhya Pradesh
In office 1 July 2016 – 1 February 2019
Appointed by	Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Personal details
Born	(1960-08-23) 23 August 1960 (age 64) Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

Education

Shukla has a post graduate qualification in Philosophy.^[3]

Career

Rishi Kumar Shukla is a 1983 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. After his training stint at the National Police Academy, he was posted in Shivpuri, Damoh, Raipur, and Mandsaur districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. He has trained in crisis management and negotiations in the United States,^[where?] and was briefly associated with the Intelligence Bureau handling sensitive cases.^[3]

Prior to being appointed as the director of the CBI, he was appointed the director general of Madhya Pradesh Police in 2016 and the chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Police Housing Corporation in Bhopal.^[1][4]