Sudhir Kumar Mishra is an Indian engineer, defence scientist and civil servant.
He is currently the director general at the Defence Research & Development Organisation, and the chief executive officer and managing director of BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between India's and Russia's ministries of defence.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Mishra was born and brought up in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh in central India.
[8] Soon after graduating from IIT Madras, he joined DRDO's main missile laboratory, the DRDL Hyderabad in 1984 and worked under A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and other eminent scientists on the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme and other missile programmes of India, including the Agni and BrahMos.
He served as the Project Director of BrahMos, the world's only supersonic missile.