Who’s Who
Meet the Key leadership driving our vision and mission forward..
Hon’ble Chief Minister of H.P
Shri Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu
Professional Overview: Shri Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu serves as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. Grounded in decades of grassroots activism and administrative experience, he is a four-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing the Nadaun constituency. He heads the state’s executive leadership and guides top-tier planning and policy portfolios.
Key Milestones:
- Assumed office as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh in December 2022.
- Served as the President of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) from 2013 to 2019.
- Previously held vital legislative responsibilities, including serving as Chief Whip of the legislature and acting as a cornerstone for several high-level administrative assembly panels.
Core Focus: Envisioning data-driven governance, leveraging technological tools for service delivery, and spearheading inclusive, sustainable socioeconomic growth paradigms across the state.
Principal Secretary
Shri Devesh Kumar, IAS
Professional Overview: Shri Devesh Kumar is a senior, highly experienced officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) belonging to the Himachal Pradesh cadre. He oversees the principal administrative framework governing the state’s financial strategy, developmental resource allocations, and statistical systems.
Key Milestones:
- Holds critical core portfolios as Principal Secretary to the Government of Himachal Pradesh, driving central fiscal, developmental, and regulatory planning.
- Extensively managed massive administrative portfolios across various state government verticals, including Urban Development, Excise & Taxation, and key public undertakings.
- Plays a crucial role in building collaborative frameworks between administrative departments and executive planning boards.
Core Focus: Shaping state fiscal policies, improving resource mobilization efficiency, and providing administrative oversight to ensure data-backed developmental milestones.
Secretary
Dr. Abhishek Jain, IAS
Professional Overview: Dr. Abhishek Jain is a senior officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) serving as Secretary to the Government of Himachal Pradesh. With specialized experience in administrative reforms, finance, and technical governance, he directs the operational policy mapping for the state’s data management and economic planning architectures.
Key Milestones:
- Serves simultaneously in critical portfolios including Advisor (Regulatory Reforms) and Secretary overseeing Technical Education, Finance, Planning, and Economics & Statistics.
- Spearheaded the modern digitization of public data repositories, facilitating public access and transparency through initiatives like the Digital Himachal Portal.
- Routinely chairs crucial high-level inter-departmental committees to streamline databases for welfare programs and structural public reforms.
Core Focus: Promoting evidence-based policymaking, expanding technology integration across state data systems, and strengthening statistical transparency to improve citizen service delivery.
Economic Adviser
Dr. Vinod Kumar Rana
Professional Overview: Dr. Vinod Kumar Rana is a distinguished macroeconomist, researcher, and seasoned public administrator serving as the Economic Adviser to the Government of Himachal Pradesh. Backed by over two decades of robust research experience, he steers the state’s nodal statistical agency in data collection, macro-level analytics, and economic forecasting.
Key Milestones:
- Directly oversees the compilation, analysis, and publication of the state’s core economic documents, including the Economic survyes of Himachal Pradesh, Statistical Abstract of Himachal Pradesh, Statistical Year Book, and official State Income Estimates.
- Holds deep expertise in State Accounts Statistics, public finance, econometrics, and human development indices.
- Serves as an executive committee member of prestigious professional bodies, including the Indian Association for Research in National Income & Wealth (IARNIW).
Core Focus: Building robust grassroots statistical capacity, eliminating data collection delays, and delivering high-fidelity, realistic economic data to minimize regional development imbalances and guide state taxation policies.