Air Marshal Ravinder Kumar Dhir PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC is an advisor to Gujarat state for 'Defence and Aerospace Industries'.

[5][6][7][8][9][10] Dhir is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune.

Dhir was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force on 15 June 1979.

He has clocked over 3200 hours of flying on more than 25 different types of aircraft to date.

He is a Qualified Flying Instructor, an experimental test pilot, Commander of the Air Force Test Pilots School and provided input to the Tejas LCA project at Aeronautical Development Establishment.