R. K. Tiwari

Rajendra Kumar Tiwari (born February 4, 1963), commonly known as R. K. Tiwari is a retired Indian civil servant and Indian Administrative Services officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre from the 1985 batch. He served as the Chief Secretary of the Government of Uttar Pradesh from 30 August 2019 to 30 December 2021, succeeding Anup Chandra Pandey.

Education He did his primary education from Government Intermediate College Lalitpur, then completed his graduation in B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He also holds a master's degree in Arts from the UK.

Career Tiwari joined Indian Administrative Service as an officer in 1985. He has served in several bureaucratic positions for the Government of India and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, including Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Agriculture And Co-operation. He has served previously in various departments in the Uttar Pradesh government like higher and secondary education, industrial development, agriculture, infrastructure, commercial tax, labour, IT and electronics etc. Before his appointment as the CS, he was serving as the Commissioner (Agriculture Production) of UP government. He also held the additional charge of UP chief secretary after the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey in September 2019. He retired from the services in February 2023.

The Print reports him to be one of the UP's powerful civil servants in CM Yogi Adityanath's government.