Ashok Lavasa (IAST: Aśoka Lavāsā) (born 21 October 1957) is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India.

[3][4][5] He has an MBA degree from Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia,[3][5] and an MPhil in defence and strategic studies.

[6][7][8][9] He assumed office on 1 January 2014,[3] and demitted it on 29 August 2014,[3] when he was appointed as the Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary.

[22][23][24] Lavasa made headlines in 2019 after a dissenting opinion on a panel's ruling of complaints against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah during the Lok Sabha election campaign.

[25] He soon stopped attending meetings, saying "minority decisions" were being "suppressed in a manner contrary to well-established conventions observed by multi-member statutory bodies".