Dr.
Sudhir Mishra, DS & Director General and CEO & MD, BrahMos Aerospace
Dr. Sudhir Mishra, Distinguished Scientist & Director General
(BrahMos), DRDO, Ministry of Defence and CEO&MD, BrahMos
Aerospace, an India-Russia Joint Venture, is a Graduate of
Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, M.Tech. in
Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras and Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology,
Warangal. He has contributed immensely in India's quest to
achieve excellence in Missile technologies. His technical
expertise and contribution has resulted in the realisation of several DRDO Missile
Programmes. As CEO&MD, BrahMos Aerospace, he is responsible for the design,
development, production and product support encompassing complete Product Life
Cycle of BrahMos Weapon System. He has guided "Team BrahMos" in design,
development, modernising and upgrading BRAHMOS missile to achieve newer
capabilities and versions for Land to Land, Sea to Land and Air to Sea/Land and
conducted flight test for extended range. His leadership and guidance has led to
successful flight test of BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile from Sukhoi-30 MKI
fighter aircraft against Sea target resulting in historic achievement of India becoming
first country in the world to have such unique capability.
His defence diplomatic skills have resulted in the culmination of several defence
R&D projects with friendly countries within the framework of foreign policy and
defence cooperation. He has visited Russia, Israel, France, Holland, Switzerland,
Pakistan, South Africa, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Vietnam, UAE, Indonesia,
Philippines & Japan to enhance bilateral cooperation in the field of defence
technologies.
He is academician of Russian Academy of Cosmonautics and awarded with
Honorary Doctorate by People’s University, Bhopal and Fellow of Aeronautical
Society of India, Institution of Engineers (India), the Institution of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Indian Institution of Production Engineers and
Centre for Excellence in Project Management, New Delhi. He is a member of many
national and international professional societies.
He has been awarded with the “DRDO Scientist of the Year Award” by the Prime
Minister of India, “Distinguished Alumnus Award-2018” by IIT, Madras, IIM-TATA
Gold Medal Award by Indian Institute of Metals, Kolkata, “Madhya Pradesh Gaurav
Samman” by Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, “Distinguished Alumni Award” by
Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, “Super CEO Award” by The Machinist,
Times of India Group, “Vigyan Pratibha Samman” by Council of Science &
Technology, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh“, “Life Time Achievement Award” by Sriram
College of Engineering & Technology, Jabalpur.