Sanjay Mitra

Sanjay Mitra (born 6 May 1959) is a retired 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of West Bengal cadre. He served as Defence Secretary of India, and prior to that as Union Road Transport and Highways Secretary, and the Chief Secretary of West Bengal. Mitra also served—on an acting basis—as the chairperson of the Defence Research and Development Organisation for a period of three months.

Education Mitra holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in physics, a postgraduate degree in economics, He assumed the office of the chief secretary of the state on 30 September 2012 and demitted it on 27 December 2015, after being the state's top bureaucrat for three years. he assumed the office on 1 January 2016 and demitted it on 10 May 2017. succeeding G. Mohan Kumar. Mitra served as an officer on special duty, in the rank of secretary, till Kumar's retirement, he formally took charge on 25 May 2017.

Post-retirement After retiring from the IAS, Mitra became a professor of practice at the School of Public Policy at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.